{"id":21449,"date":"2018-03-28T18:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21449"},"modified":"2018-03-28T18:06:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:06:49","slug":"in-pictures-wolverhampton-extension-works-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21449","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Wolverhampton extension works commence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work is now starting on extending Midland Metro at both ends of the current line with the commencement of road closures and diversions at Wolverhampton to allow the first construction works to take place. Bus services were diverted from Sunday 18th March and the location of the works will also affect the bus station.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The first stage will see enabling works take place before the main construction on the tram route starts after the Easter weekend with a planned for completion date of the summer. Trams won\u2019t start running on the line until all works are completed in connection with the new transport interchange at Wolverhampton Railway Station \u2013 in 2020.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21450\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=21450\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21450\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21450\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21450\" title=\"1.wolves-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/1.wolves-aw-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21450\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cones everywhere \u2013 a sign as good as any that work is starting!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_21451\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=21451\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21451\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21451\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21451\" title=\"2.wolves-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2.wolves-aw-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The work compound. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 22nd March 2018)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work is now starting on extending Midland Metro at both ends of the current line with the commencement of road closures and diversions at Wolverhampton to allow the first construction works to take place. Bus services were diverted from Sunday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=21449\">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\/21449"}],"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=21449"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21465,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21449\/revisions\/21465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}