{"id":57824,"date":"2025-04-06T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T10:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57824"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:56:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:56:48","slug":"west-midlands-metro-engineering-works-this-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=57824","title":{"rendered":"West Midlands Metro Engineering Works this April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that the West Midlands Metro don\u2019t want to be left out, as after announcement of engineering works in Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield they have also confirmed details of planned works at Priestfield and The Crescent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Works will be taking place as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday 6<sup>th<\/sup> April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No trams will run before 0900<\/li>\n<li>First departures from both Wolverhampton Station and Edgbaston Village will be at 0900<\/li>\n<li>First service from Wednesbury Parkway to Edgbaston Village at 0817<\/li>\n<li>First service from Wednesbury Parkway to Wolverhampton Station at 0838<\/li>\n<li>From 0900 to 2100 trams will run every 12 minutes between Wolverhampton Station and Edgbaston Village<\/li>\n<li>No trams will run after 2100<\/li>\n<li>The last full route trams leave Wolverhampton Station and Edgbaston Village at 2000<\/li>\n<li>Trams will depart both Wolverhampton Station and Edgbaston Village for Wednesbury Parkway at 2100<\/li>\n<li>Whilst trams are not running Metro tickets will be valid on National Express bus services 79 between Wolverhampton and West Bromwich, 74 between West Bromwich and Birmingham and all services between Colmore Row and Edgbaston<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sunday 13<sup>th<\/sup> April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trams will run every 12 minutes between Wednesbury Parkway and Wolverhampton Station only<\/li>\n<li>No trams between Wednesbury Parkway and Wolverhampton Station<\/li>\n<li>Metro tickets will be valid on National Express bus service 79 between Wednesbury Bus Station and Wolverhampton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monday 14<sup>th<\/sup> April<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trams will run every 8 minutes between Wednesbury Parkway and Wolverhampton Station only<\/li>\n<li>No trams between Wednesbury Parkway and Wolverhampton Station<\/li>\n<li>Metro tickets will be valid on National Express bus service 79 between Wednesbury Bus Station and Wolverhampton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Priestfield Park and Ride will be used to store equipment and materials required for this work which will mean that during April up to 40 spaces will be unavailable at the car park.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Full details of forthcoming service changes on the West Midlands Metro can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westmidlandsmetro.com\/maps\/service-status\/\">https:\/\/www.westmidlandsmetro.com\/maps\/service-status\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would appear that the West Midlands Metro don\u2019t want to be left out, as after announcement of engineering works in Manchester, Nottingham and Sheffield they have also confirmed details of planned works at Priestfield and The Crescent.<\/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\/57824"}],"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=57824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57825,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57824\/revisions\/57825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}