{"id":42778,"date":"2021-12-09T20:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42778"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T17:04:27","slug":"in-pictures-blackpool-extension-overhead-in-place-up-to-the-terminus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42778","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Blackpool extension overhead in place up to the terminus"},"content":{"rendered":"

We may not now be seeing major progress each day in the construction work for the Blackpool Tramway extension along Talbot Road but that doesn\u2019t mean nothing is happening as there has still been some significant work taking place over the past few days as shown in this latest photographic update from Tony Armitage.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The major headline is that all poles and the overhead wire now seems to be in place all the way from the junction with the Promenade tramway at Talbot Square up to the terminus on the old Wilko\u2019s site. This has included a new feeder cable being installed at Talbot Square. Up at Wilko\u2019s it looks as if there is just one frog to be installed to complete the overhead work.<\/p>\n

On the current Promenade tramway there has also been further single-line working this week with more work taking place in the points to the extension. This has seen the northbound stops used by trams heading in both directions between Cabin and North Pier from 0800 to 1600 each day this week.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

The new feeder cable being installed in Talbot Square. The single direction platform for trams heading up to the station is seen on the left.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

The old Wilko\u2019s site and looking along the tracks to the scissors crossover with poling and wiring now in place.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

A view towards the terminus where we see the poles and overhead wires in place. The hotel and restaurant are in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Another shot of the newly installed overhead. (All Photographs by Tony Armitage, 9th December 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We may not now be seeing major progress each day in the construction work for the Blackpool Tramway extension along Talbot Road but that doesn\u2019t mean nothing is happening as there has still been some significant work taking place over … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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\/42778"}],"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=42778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42908,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42778\/revisions\/42908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}