{"id":39636,"date":"2021-05-25T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39636"},"modified":"2021-05-25T17:02:47","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T16:02:47","slug":"more-short-notice-trackworks-on-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39636","title":{"rendered":"More short-notice trackworks on West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no tram services from Priestfield to Wolverhampton St George\u2019s on Thursday 27<sup>th<\/sup> and Friday 28<sup>th<\/sup> May after the late notice announcement of essential trackworks on Bilston Road. This extends a closure of this section of line (as well as that further on from Priestfield to Wednesbury Parkway) from Saturday 29<sup>th<\/sup> May until Sunday 6<sup>th<\/sup> June for bridge removal works in Bilston.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On both Thursday 27<sup>th<\/sup> and Friday 28<sup>th<\/sup> May trams will only run from Library to Priestfield with a dedicated bus replacement service then running every 10 minutes from Priestfield to Wolverhampton Bus Station (stand U).<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not clear is whether the trackworks will only take place during these two days or whether it too will take place during the previously announced line closure. You would hope it would be carrying on as other wise surely the most obvious thing would have been to wait a couple of days before this work took place?<\/p>\n<p>It now means that the following tram services will be running at the end of May and start of June:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 27<sup>th<\/sup> and Friday 28<sup>th<\/sup> May<\/p>\n<p>Library to Priestfield<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 29<sup>th<\/sup> May to Sunday 6<sup>th<\/sup> June<\/p>\n<p>Library to Wednesbury Parkway<\/p>\n<p>A full tram service should resume from Monday 7<sup>th<\/sup> June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no tram services from Priestfield to Wolverhampton St George\u2019s on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th May after the late notice announcement of essential trackworks on Bilston Road. This extends a closure of this section of line (as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39636\">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\/39636"}],"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=39636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39637,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39636\/revisions\/39637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}