{"id":18006,"date":"2017-07-20T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18006"},"modified":"2017-07-20T21:14:25","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:14:25","slug":"in-pictures-bilston-road-metro-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18006","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Bilston Road Metro works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now a month into the planned six month closure of Midland Metro between Priestfield and Wolverhampton St George\u2019s to allow for track relaying along Bilston Road. In this latest pictorial update Andy Walters brings us the latest images of the work with some of the new track now fully concreted down whilst other sections are at various different stages of construction.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18007\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=18007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18007\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18007\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18007\" title=\"1.bilston-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1.bilston-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scale of work being undertaken is seen here with the road surface and track removed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18008\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=18008\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18008\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18008\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18008\" title=\"2.bilston-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2.bilston-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New track in place but yet to be concreted in.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18009\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=18009\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18009\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18009\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18009\" title=\"3.bilston-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/3.bilston-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18009\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Track in situ with the first concrete surface having been laid around it.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18010\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=18010\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18010\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18010\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18010\" title=\"4.bilston-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/4.bilston-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking directly along the line as it is put in place ready to be aligned.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18011\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=18011\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18011\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18011\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18011\" title=\"5.bilston-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/5.bilston-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just to the south of The Royal and track is being laid on the southbound line.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_18012\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=18012\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18012\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18012\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18012\" title=\"6.bilston-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/6.bilston-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Its not all about laying the tracks as seen in this view when further excavation work is taking place. (All Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now a month into the planned six month closure of Midland Metro between Priestfield and Wolverhampton St George\u2019s to allow for track relaying along Bilston Road. In this latest pictorial update Andy Walters brings us the latest images &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18006\">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\/18006"}],"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=18006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18014,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions\/18014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}