{"id":10578,"date":"2015-03-13T20:33:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2015-03-13T20:33:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:33:27","slug":"in-pictures-midland-metro-rail-replacement-project-goes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10578","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Midland Metro rail replacement project goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The severely over running rail replacement project on Midland Metro between The Royal and Wolverhampton St George\u2019s is continuing as efforts are made to re-open the line this month as promised by Centro earlier this year. In this latest picture update we show the current state of affairs which seems to suggest that there is a lot of work to be completed with some of the excavations not yet fully filled in and a large amount of track still to be laid. Photos courtesy of Andy Walters.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10580\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10580\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10580\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10580\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10580\" title=\"track1-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/track1-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene just north of The Royal shows track still needing to be laid.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10581\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10581\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10581\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10581\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10581\" title=\"track2-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/track2-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you wondered how deep the excavations still are this view should give you a pretty good idea!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10584\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10584\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10584\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10584\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10584\" title=\"track3-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/track3-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work ongoing along Bilston Road.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10585\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10585\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10585\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10585\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10585\" title=\"track4-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/track4-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More track still to be laid on the approach to Wolverhampton St George&#39;s.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10586\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10586\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10586\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10586\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10586\" title=\"track5-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/track5-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More track not yet in place.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10587\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10587\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10587\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10587\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10587\" title=\"track6-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/track6-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wolverhampton St George&#39;s terminus and its new austerity layout. (All Photos by Andy Walters on 12th March 2015)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The severely over running rail replacement project on Midland Metro between The Royal and Wolverhampton St George\u2019s is continuing as efforts are made to re-open the line this month as promised by Centro earlier this year. In this latest picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10578\">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\/10578"}],"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=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10589,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions\/10589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}