{"id":25405,"date":"2018-12-28T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25405"},"modified":"2018-12-23T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T10:34:53","slug":"in-pictures-concrete-base-in-place-on-pinfold-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25405","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Concrete base in place on Pinfold Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst for many the pre-Christmas period is a time of winding down getting ready for the festivities that is far from the case on West Midlands Metro construction works with significant milestones reached on the both the Birmingham Westside and Wolverhampton City Centre lines. In Wolverhampton the tracks from the points at St George\u2019s to the road bridge, just short of the railway station, are now fully tarmacked whilst at the other end of the line the concrete based is in place on Pinfold Street ahead of the installation of tracks. Andy Walters shows the situation in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25406\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25406\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25406\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25406\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25406\" title=\"pinfold-aw\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pinfold-aw-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking up Pinfold Street towards Victoria Square on 19th December showing the concrete base now in place and waiting for the first tracks to be put in. (Photograph by Andy Walters)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst for many the pre-Christmas period is a time of winding down getting ready for the festivities that is far from the case on West Midlands Metro construction works with significant milestones reached on the both the Birmingham Westside and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25405\">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\/25405"}],"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=25405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25420,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25405\/revisions\/25420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}