{"id":52341,"date":"2024-01-13T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52341"},"modified":"2024-01-13T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T16:58:55","slug":"in-pictures-work-on-tramstops-on-west-midlands-metro-dudley-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52341","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Work on tramstops on West Midlands Metro Dudley extension"},"content":{"rendered":"

The official word from the Midland Metro Alliance remains that the next West Midlands Metro extension between Wednesbury and Dudley will see its first passengers in 2024 (this is phase one of the Brierley Hill line). With this in mind a lot of work remains to be completed in the next 10-11 months or so, not just limited to significant tracklaying but also the construction of the nine new stops due in this phase. In this pictorial article we head out to see the current state of things at a couple of planned stops on the line.<\/p>\n

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The Brierley Hill line is due to be built in two phases. The first phase will see up to nine new stops provided between Wednesbury and Flood Street in Dudley. This will then be followed by phase two which will see at least five more stops constructed between Flood Street and Brierley Hill. The total length of the completed extension will be 11km.<\/p>\n

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The first new stop after the line leaves the current route at Wednesbury will be at Great Bridge and this view shows us looking towards Wednesbury at the location of the stop. With evidence of heavy rain we can see that the trackbed is being prepared for the eventual laying of tracks with the stop construction also awaited.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The next stop along the line as it heads towards Dudley will be at Horseley Road which is where this second photo was taken. Viewed toward Dudley Port (which is the next stop along the line) again there has already been work on preparing the trackbed with earthworks also having taken place. The laying of tracks and construction of platforms is still waited for. (Both Photographs by Chris Allsop-Buckler, 7th January 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The official word from the Midland Metro Alliance remains that the next West Midlands Metro extension between Wednesbury and Dudley will see its first passengers in 2024 (this is phase one of the Brierley Hill line). With this in mind … 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\/52341"}],"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=52341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52344,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52341\/revisions\/52344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}