{"id":50697,"date":"2023-08-21T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50697"},"modified":"2023-08-21T12:55:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:55:55","slug":"in-pictures-resurfacing-works-underway-on-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50697","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Resurfacing works underway on West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who follow the West Midlands Metro closely the saga of the Wolverhampton extension needs no introduction. The much delayed (and pretty short) extension is still awaiting the time when trams may start running (or indeed see extensive testing take place) but the middle of August did some progress with the resurfacing of Piper\u2019s Row.<\/p>\n

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Piper\u2019s Row will feature the majority of the extension with it running from where the junction with the current Wolverhampton St George\u2019s line is past the Bus Station and down to where it turns to Railway Drive. The road has been closed on numerous occasions over the past few years for work such as the laying of track and has also been surfaced on more than one occasion. But after more work in the vicinity more resurfacing was needed which led to a closure of the road again between Monday 14th<\/sup> and Friday 18th<\/sup> August.<\/p>\n

Maybe once the surfacing is complete there may be more news on the extension opening?<\/p>\n

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Outside the Bus Station looking towards the current line where the old surface has been removed.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Another look on Piper\u2019s Row seeing the start of the resurfacing works.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The new tarmac is laid in between the rails with contractors then smoothing it down.<\/p><\/div>\n

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And a wider angle view of the resurfacing. (All Photographs by Andy Walters, 15th August 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who follow the West Midlands Metro closely the saga of the Wolverhampton extension needs no introduction. The much delayed (and pretty short) extension is still awaiting the time when trams may start running (or indeed see … 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":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697"}],"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=50697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50702,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50697\/revisions\/50702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}