{"id":55033,"date":"2024-08-24T22:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55033"},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:28:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:28:42","slug":"in-pictures-track-renewal-continues-on-supertram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55033","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Track renewal continues on Supertram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The track renewal works on the South Yorkshire Supertram network which are taking place along Middlewood Road until early September have been continuing over the past few days as the area seeing new rails laid increases.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since we last featured the works, the site has moved a further 150 yards or so towards the city at Leppings Lane. Once again the old rails are being removed before they are replaced by new track as part of the major investment by the SYMCA in improving the network.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55034\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1.rail-sc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55034\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1.rail-sc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1.rail-sc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1.rail-sc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/1.rail-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down onto the new worksite with the fencing protecting the public from the work. New rails wait to be installed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55035\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.rail-sc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55035\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55035\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.rail-sc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.rail-sc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.rail-sc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2.rail-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another shot of the continued work.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55036\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3.rail-sc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55036\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55036\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3.rail-sc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3.rail-sc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3.rail-sc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3.rail-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55036\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hillsborough Trinity Methodist Church is just behind the worksite here as VolkerRail continue their contract to replace the rails on Supertram.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55037\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.109-sc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55037\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55037\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.109-sc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.109-sc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.109-sc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/4.109-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trams from Meadowhall on the Yellow route are continuing to run to Malin Bridge whilst the work takes place. 109 was working on the route here and is seen at Meadowhall. (All Photographs by Stuart Cooke, 20th August 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The track renewal works on the South Yorkshire Supertram network which are taking place along Middlewood Road until early September have been continuing over the past few days as the area seeing new rails laid increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033"}],"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=55033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55038,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55033\/revisions\/55038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}