{"id":9994,"date":"2015-01-04T11:56:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T10:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9994"},"modified":"2015-01-04T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T10:56:19","slug":"midland-metro-t69-book-%e2%80%93-can-you-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9994","title":{"rendered":"Midland Metro T69 book \u2013 can you help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Christmas we ran an appeal for information and photos for inclusion in Andrew Coward\u2019s latest book \u2013 a tribute to the Midland Metro T69s, which are due for withdrawal within the next few months. Following on from this Andrew is now trying to find out roughly when <strong>01<\/strong>, <strong>02<\/strong> and <strong>03<\/strong> were withdrawn from service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>01<\/strong> \u2013 There is a photo of the tram in a stripped condition from March 2007 wearing the same external adverts it carried as when removed from Wednesbury last year so it certainly hasn\u2019t run in the intervening period. There are also photos of it running in 2004 and 2006 but if anyone can narrow it down a bit more it would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>02<\/strong> \u2013 This appears to be the least photographed member of the fleet and it has been stored for a number of years but was still working in 2009. Again if anyone can narrow down when it last worked it would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>03<\/strong> \u2013 A more recent withdrawee than the other two but if anyone can help with a date for withdrawal Andrew would be very grateful.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone can assist with information on any of these three trams please email Andrew Coward at the following email address: AndrewmcowardATaol.com (replace AT with @)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Christmas we ran an appeal for information and photos for inclusion in Andrew Coward\u2019s latest book \u2013 a tribute to the Midland Metro T69s, which are due for withdrawal within the next few months. Following on from this Andrew &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9994\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9995,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9994\/revisions\/9995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}