{"id":64288,"date":"2026-08-22T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T09:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64288"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:56:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T17:56:46","slug":"more-overhead-line-works-on-west-midlands-metro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64288","title":{"rendered":"More overhead line works on West Midlands Metro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be more changes to West Midlands Metro services on Sunday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> August to allow for further overhead line maintenance works.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Starting from 2000 on Sunday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> August the works will mean that no trams can run between West Bromwich Central and Edgbaston Village\/Millennium Point.<\/p>\n<p>During this time trams will continue to run:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wolverhampton St George\u2019s\/Station to West Bromwich Central<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last tram from St George\u2019s to Edgbaston Village will depart at 1833, from Wolverhampton Station to Edgbaston Village at 1830 and the final departure from Edgbaston Village to Wolverhampton will be at 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst there will be no replacement bus service Metro tickets will be valid on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>West Midlands Railway services between Wolverhampton and Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>National Express West Midlands bus 74 between Old Square, Birmingham and West Bromwich bus station<\/li>\n<li>All National Express West Midlands bus services between Colmore Row and Hagley Road, Birmingham<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be more changes to West Midlands Metro services on Sunday 23rd August to allow for further overhead line maintenance works.<\/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\/64288"}],"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=64288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64289,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64288\/revisions\/64289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}