{"id":18154,"date":"2017-08-04T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18154"},"modified":"2021-02-14T09:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T09:23:00","slug":"in-pictures-work-continues-on-bilston-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18154","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Work continues on Bilston Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The track replacement work on Bilston Road is still going on disrupting Midland Metro services but good progress does still seem to be being made and the chance is also being taken to install the junction between the current line and the extension to Wolverhampton Railway Station. Andy Walters provides the photos.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38291\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38291\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38291\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38291\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/1.works-aw-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Away from the main worksite along Bilston Road preparations are being made just before Wolverhampton St George\u2019s where the junction will be installed to take trams to the railway station.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_38292\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38292\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38292\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/2.bilston-aw-1-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workmen busy on the northbound line towards Wolverhampton whilst on the southbound line, well it must be break time! Preparations are being made on the southbound trackbed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_38294\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38294\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38294\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38294\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/3.bilston-aw-1-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38294\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of some of the new track installed showing a section already concreted back in and a section with just the track in place.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_38295\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38295\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38295\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38295\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/4.bilston-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38295\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another view on Bilston Road showing new track in place.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_38296\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38296\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38296\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/5.bilston-aw-1-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38296\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene to the Wolverhampton side of Priestfield. (All Photographs by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The track replacement work on Bilston Road is still going on disrupting Midland Metro services but good progress does still seem to be being made and the chance is also being taken to install the junction between the current line &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18154\">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\/18154"}],"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=18154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38297,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18154\/revisions\/38297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}