{"id":41998,"date":"2021-10-19T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41998"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T14:17:01","slug":"in-pictures-little-progress-on-tramway-extension-at-wilkos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41998","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Little progress on tramway extension at Wilko\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

The snail like progress on work for the Blackpool North Railway Station extension of the Blackpool Tramway has continued in recent weeks. Work on the former Wilko\u2019s site \u2013 which will be home to the tramway terminus \u2013 has now also seemingly stalled (as well as the overhead installation) with the only really visible progress recently being on the new hotel and restaurant. To show what has been happening over the past few weeks \u2013 or not \u2013 these photos from Tony Armitage give an update and maybe someone out there may be able to play spot the difference!<\/p>\n

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The \u201cclassic\u201d shot into the site towards the scissors crossover. More concreting \u2013 or tarmacking \u2013 is required here with little have changed for several weeks.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Looking back the other way and we see the scissors crossover from a different angle here.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The structure of the hotel and restaurant is starting to progress as seen in the background here. Also visible in front are the tracks leading to the actual terminus. (All Photographs by Tony Armitage, 15th October 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The snail like progress on work for the Blackpool North Railway Station extension of the Blackpool Tramway has continued in recent weeks. Work on the former Wilko\u2019s site \u2013 which will be home to the tramway terminus \u2013 has now … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41998"}],"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=41998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42002,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41998\/revisions\/42002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}