{"id":51833,"date":"2023-12-02T22:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51833"},"modified":"2023-12-02T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T16:41:40","slug":"in-pictures-hansons-bridge-is-coming-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51833","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Hansons Bridge is coming down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further progress on the West Midlands Metro extension to Dudley and then Brierley Hill has been seen at the start of December as work to install the last bridge of the first phase of the project entered a new stage \u2013 the removal of the old structure. The bridge \u2013 known locally as Hansons Bridge \u2013 is on Birmingham New Road and as with previous bridges on the route needs to be replaced by a more modern structure ahead of the laying of tracks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A localised road and footpath closure was put in place from Friday 1<sup>st<\/sup> December with this expected to remain the case until the end of Monday 4<sup>th<\/sup> December. This will allow the safe removal of the old bridge. Its then planned that the new bridge will be installed at some point in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Metro tracks which will be installed on the new bridge will carry trams from Wednesbury to Dudley when the first phase of the Brierley Hill opens to the public. Currently Midland Metro Alliance continue to say this will be in late 2024.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51835\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51835\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51835\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51835\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51835\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1.hansons-aw-550x309.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With work starting the road and footpath are clearly closed for obvious reasons.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_51836\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51836\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51836\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51836\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/2.hansons-aw-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An \u201caction shot\u201d as work is underway to carefully dismantle the bridge. (Photographs x 2 by Andy Walters, 1st December 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_51855\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51855\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51855\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51855\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51855\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/3.hansons-aw-550x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a day later and the main part of the bridge has already been removed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_51856\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51856\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51856\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51856\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51856\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/4.hansons-aw-550x308.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51856\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wider angle view of the scene. (Photographs x2 by Andy Walters, 2nd December 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further progress on the West Midlands Metro extension to Dudley and then Brierley Hill has been seen at the start of December as work to install the last bridge of the first phase of the project entered a new stage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51833\">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\/51833"}],"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=51833"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51857,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51833\/revisions\/51857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}