{"id":49547,"date":"2023-05-21T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49547"},"modified":"2023-05-20T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T15:55:22","slug":"in-pictures-work-still-taking-place-on-wolverhampton-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49547","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Work still taking place on Wolverhampton extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the wait goes on for more tram testing and an eventual start of service on the West Midlands Metro extension to Wolverhampton Railway Station we take another trip to see progress on construction \u2013 and there is still work going on up at the railway station end of the line; despite the last press release stating that work here had now finished.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Monday 15<sup>th<\/sup> May 2023, Andy Walters took a walk of the complete route from where it starts on Piper\u2019s Row all the way through to the railway station. At the Piper\u2019s Row end of the route it still looks much as it has done for some time with most of the work having been finished (although there are to be temporary road closures at the end of this month for more resurfacing to take place).<\/p>\n<p>But on this visit there was evidence of work taking place towards the terminus outside the railway station. This mainly seems to be including the laying of the block paving which will be surrounding the tracks here. There is also work underway to install drainage for where the water runs down the slope from the bridge on the approach to the station.<\/p>\n<p>A spring opening date is still the aim.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49548\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49548\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49548\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1.wolves-aw-550x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the Wolverhampton Railway Station tramstop where we can see three workmen involved in the finishing works here.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_49549\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49549\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49549\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49549\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2.wolves-aw-550x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The tracks are on the right of this shot with the railway stop behind the photographer. The area in the centre and left of the photo will require final surfacing but shouldn\u2019t actually stop trams from running.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_49550\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49550\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49550\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49550\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3.wolves-aw-550x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another look at Wolverhampton Railway Station stop.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_49551\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49551\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49551\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49551\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4.wolves-aw-550x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The very end of the line.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_49552\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49552\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49552\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49552\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5.wolves-aw-550x284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the drainage being installed. (All Photographs by Andy Walters, 15th May 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the wait goes on for more tram testing and an eventual start of service on the West Midlands Metro extension to Wolverhampton Railway Station we take another trip to see progress on construction \u2013 and there is still work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49547\">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\/49547"}],"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=49547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49553,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49547\/revisions\/49553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}