{"id":24346,"date":"2018-10-22T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24346"},"modified":"2018-10-20T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:04:18","slug":"in-pictures-all-change-at-grand-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24346","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: All change at Grand Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As previously featured on these pages, up until next summer, all trams at Grand Central will be arriving at departing at platform 1 to allow for the continuation of construction work of the extension of West Midlands Metro which will eventually reach Edgbaston. This means that trams now use the crossover just after departure from Grand Central instead of drawing forward along Stephenson Street to just outside the Ian Allan bookstore. Photos from Martin Miller showing the new arrangements.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24347\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=24347\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24347\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24347\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24347\" title=\"1.24-mm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1.24-mm-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1.24-mm-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1.24-mm-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/1.24-mm.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">24 stands at Grand Central awaiting departure. Barriers block the track alongside the other platform.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24348\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=24348\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24348\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24348\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24348\" title=\"2.33-mm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.33-mm-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.33-mm-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.33-mm-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2.33-mm.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An image showing the scene from the other end of the stop with further barriers in place preventing any trams from progressing any further along Stephenson Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24349\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=24349\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24349\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24349\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24349\" title=\"3.stephenson-mm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3.stephenson-mm-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3.stephenson-mm-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3.stephenson-mm-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/3.stephenson-mm.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking back along Stephenson Street towards the stop showing various small worksites now underway.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_24350\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=24350\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24350\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24350\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24350\" title=\"4.digger-mm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/4.digger-mm-367x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/4.digger-mm-367x550.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/4.digger-mm-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/4.digger-mm.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A more substantial worksite. (All Photographs by Martin Miller)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>* A video of the arrangements at Grand Central is also available from Martin Miller on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K89Gck88Ob8&amp;feature=youtu.be\">You Tube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously featured on these pages, up until next summer, all trams at Grand Central will be arriving at departing at platform 1 to allow for the continuation of construction work of the extension of West Midlands Metro which will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=24346\">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\/24346"}],"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=24346"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24379,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24346\/revisions\/24379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}