{"id":37563,"date":"2021-02-10T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37563"},"modified":"2021-02-11T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T16:33:28","slug":"west-midlands-metro-upgrade-works-20th-21st-february-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37563","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Metro upgrade works: 20th &#038; 21st February 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be disruption to services on the West Midlands Metro network between 2030 on Saturday 20<sup>th<\/sup> and the end of the service on Sunday 21<sup>st<\/sup> February as a result of essential maintenance works. As a result of these works there will be no trams on the entire network with replacement buses and ticket acceptance on other transport modes in operation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 20th February the last tram from Wolverhampton St George\u2019s will at 2018 and from the Library at 2027, after which there will be no further trams until the start of service on Monday 22nd February.<\/p>\n<p>There will be no replacement bus service during the evening of 20<sup>th<\/sup> February but one will run every 15 minutes on Sunday 21<sup>st<\/sup> February although will only stop at selected locations on the route:<\/p>\n<p>Wolverhampton Bus Station Stand U<\/p>\n<p>Bilston Bus Station<\/p>\n<p>Loxdale, Loxdale Street<\/p>\n<p>Bradley Lane<\/p>\n<p>Wednesbury Parkway<\/p>\n<p>Wednesbury Bus Station<\/p>\n<p>Dudley Street Guns Village<\/p>\n<p>West Bromwich Bus Station<\/p>\n<p>The Hawthorns<\/p>\n<p>Handsworth Booth Street<\/p>\n<p>Winson Green, Handsworth New Street<\/p>\n<p>Soho Benson Road<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham City Centre Old Square<\/p>\n<p>There will be posters at stops to show walking routes to the closest stopping point for the replacement bus.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the replacement bus \u2013 and solely on Saturday 20<sup>th<\/sup> February after 2030 \u2013 tickets will be accepted on National Express bus service 74 and 79 and West Midlands Railway services between Wolverhampton and Birmingham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be disruption to services on the West Midlands Metro network between 2030 on Saturday 20th and the end of the service on Sunday 21st February as a result of essential maintenance works. As a result of these works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37563\">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\/37563"}],"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=37563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37657,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37563\/revisions\/37657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}