{"id":13061,"date":"2015-11-06T22:03:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13061"},"modified":"2015-11-06T22:03:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T21:03:16","slug":"in-pictures-birmingham-city-centre-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13061","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Birmingham City Centre extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather might have been a bit grim but the past week has seen significant progress made on Midland Metro\u2019s Birmingham City Centre extension with the major news to report that the old and new lines are now connected up just beyond St Paul\u2019s. Meanwhile progress continues to be made on the overhead throughout the city centre including towards New Street station; although oddly the section closer to St Paul\u2019s \u2013 which is due to open before that at New Street \u2013 has yet to have even the poles erected.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Progress is also being made on the stop at Bull Street \u2013 which is due to be the new temporary terminus from early December \u2013 with landscaping also being undertaken in this vicinity. No date has been announced for an opening to Bull Street but the six weeks closure takes us through to early December and it is also planned that the line to New Street will open by the end of the year so the next couple of months should be busy in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13062\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=13062\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13062\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13062\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13062\" title=\"sh1-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sh1-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view on 6th November showing the old and new Midland Metro lines meeting at Snow Hill.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13063\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=13063\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13063\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13063\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13063\" title=\"sh2-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sh2-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another look at Snow Hill as work continues on the new line.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13064\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=13064\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13064\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13064\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13064\" title=\"sh3-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/sh3-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poles at Snow Hill awaiting installation.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13065\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=13065\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13065\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13065\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13065\" title=\"bullst-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/bullst-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new stop at Bull Street under construction on 4th November. (All Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weather might have been a bit grim but the past week has seen significant progress made on Midland Metro\u2019s Birmingham City Centre extension with the major news to report that the old and new lines are now connected up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13061\">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\/13061"}],"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=13061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13067,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13061\/revisions\/13067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}