{"id":42741,"date":"2021-12-07T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42741"},"modified":"2021-12-07T18:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T18:19:16","slug":"in-pictures-safety-measures-continue-to-go-in-at-bilston-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42741","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Safety measures continue to go in at Bilston Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst services on the West Midlands Metro continue to be suspended as a result of the cracks on the trams (the at least four weeks timeframe comes to an end this coming weekend) the chance to undertake other works on the line is being taken. We saw last month that there had been track relaying around Bilston Central and since this was completed further work has been taking place to finish it all off.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Last time we checked in at Bilston Central we saw that the crossing between the two platforms \u2013 with Bilston Central having a staggered platform arrangement \u2013 was being reinstalled and since then attention has been turned towards the safety measures aimed at preventing stray passengers from walking along the tramway. Progress on the installation of these has been slow but with no passenger services running it doesn\u2019t appear to be a priority at the moment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42742\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=42742\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42742\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42742\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/1.bilston-aw-253x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"550\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking north towards Wolverhampton with the Wolverhampton bound platform in the foreground we see the wooden safety features being installed at Bilston Central.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_42743\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=42743\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-42743\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42743\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2.bilston-aw-550x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From above and we take a closer look at the safety features. (Both Photographs by Andy Walters, 5th December 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst services on the West Midlands Metro continue to be suspended as a result of the cracks on the trams (the at least four weeks timeframe comes to an end this coming weekend) the chance to undertake other works on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42741\">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\/42741"}],"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=42741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42744,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42741\/revisions\/42744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}