Category Archives: West Midlands Metro

In Pictures: New adverts for West Midlands Metro 19

Posted on Tuesday 4 August 2020 by Gareth Prior

After an understandable period where we haven’t seen many new adverts applied to trams on various systems around the UK, West Midlands Metro 19 has recently returned to service having lost its 20th anniversary livery in favour of adverts for … Continue reading →

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Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 26

Posted on Sunday 26 July 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today we return to the West Midlands Metro for another photo taken during the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions, which although a lot less restrictive than earlier in the pandemic still call on us all to stay alert.

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West Midlands Metro seeks to decorate worksite hoardings

Posted on Sunday 26 July 2020 by Gareth Prior

As preparation continues towards the main construction phase of the West Midlands Metro extension between Wednesbury and Brierley Hill, the Midland Metro Alliance are seeking talented “colour-iners” (pretty sure that isn’t a word but you get what we mean!) to … Continue reading →

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New Metro stop to be named Dudley Castle

Posted on Tuesday 21 July 2020 by Gareth Prior

It has been confirmed that a stop originally called Station Drive on plans for the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill West Midlands Metro extension is to be named Dudley Castle, after, well, we think its probably obvious after what!

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In Pictures: Metrolink T68s stored at Long Marston

Posted on Sunday 19 July 2020 by Gareth Prior

Many readers of this website will probably remember that at the time that Manchester Metrolink’s original T68 trams were moved en masse away from Trafford Depot not all of them ended up heading to Rotherham and a date with the … Continue reading →

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Major concrete pour marks another milestone in Birmingham Westside extension

Posted on Sunday 28 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

A significant step in the construction of the second phase of the Birmingham Westside extension on the West Midlands Metro has been reached following the largest continuous concrete pour of the project. More than 230m of concrete was laid along … Continue reading →

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Manchester Metrolink bucks the trend as light rail journeys fall

Posted on Friday 26 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

Its that time of year again when the Department for Transport release details of journeys taken on light rail across England – and its not good news with a significant fall in the total number of journeys on all systems … Continue reading →

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Covid-19 service update – operating systems

Posted on Friday 26 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

Its been a while since we had a round-up of the service being operated on operating tramways and light rail systems in the British Isles (by which we mean those which operate primarily as public transport and not heritage systems … Continue reading →

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In Pictures: Wolverhampton City Centre extension update

Posted on Thursday 25 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

A few days ago we took a look at recent progress on the second phase of the Birmingham Westside extension and in this latest article we are at the other end of the West Midlands Metro network with images taken … Continue reading →

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Brierley Hill West Midlands Metro line extension works to reach Sandwell

Posted on Sunday 21 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

Whilst a lot of our West Midlands Metro extension attention has been drawn towards the second phase of the Birmingham Westside line it shouldn’t be forgotten that the first stages of work on the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill line are … Continue reading →

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In Pictures: Birmingham Westside construction works continue

Posted on Friday 19 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

When the lockdown restrictions were first introduced in England, work on the West Midlands Metro Birmingham Westside extension (phase two to Hagley Road, Edgbaston) was briefly suspended before getting underway again after a couple of weeks with full social distancing … Continue reading →

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Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 31 & 27

Posted on Friday 12 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today it is the turn of the West Midlands Metro for one of our “Lockdown Walks”.

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New ticket range to be launched on West Midlands Metro

Posted on Thursday 11 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

With people likely to be travelling in different ways over, at least, the next few months, the West Midlands Metro have announced that they will be launching a range of new tickets on the My Metro App including the Flex … Continue reading →

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Another increase in services ahead for Metrolink

Posted on Wednesday 10 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

As part of the “Safely Reopening GM” guidelines released by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, local businesses and transport leaders this week it has been confirmed that there will there be a further increase of the service on the Metrolink … Continue reading →

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Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 35

Posted on Thursday 4 June 2020 by Gareth Prior

The location for today’s “Lockdown Walk” is the West Midlands Metro.

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More changes on the way across the UK

Posted on Saturday 30 May 2020 by Gareth Prior

Change, constant and quick moving change at that!, seems to be buzz word at the moment on various UK tram networks with yet more service and ticketing amendments on the way in the coming days and weeks. In this latest … Continue reading →

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Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 36

Posted on Wednesday 27 May 2020 by Gareth Prior

Continuing our series of photos taken on “Lockdown Walks” we head to the West Midlands Metro network again today.

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Government confirm more support for trams and light rail

Posted on Sunday 24 May 2020 by Gareth Prior

In a normal world, weekend announcements from the Department for Transport for new projects and funding are pretty rare but as we are in a very different environment at the moment the “new normal” means announcements come at you from … Continue reading →

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Lockdown Walks: West Midlands Metro 26

Posted on Tuesday 19 May 2020 by Gareth Prior

Today we take another trip to the West Midlands Metro to see the service still operating for those needing to make essential journeys during these extraordinary times.

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TfL awarded government funding package

Posted on Friday 15 May 2020 by Gareth Prior

Usually the perception is London gets funding first and then the rest of the country has to wait to follow at a later date but during this Coronavirus pandemic it has been rather different with the regions transport undertakings being … Continue reading →

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