{"id":8301,"date":"2014-07-12T20:04:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8301"},"modified":"2014-07-12T20:04:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T19:04:33","slug":"in-pictures-midland-metro-birmingham-city-centre-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8301","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Midland Metro Birmingham City Centre extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progress is continuing on the Birmingham City Centre extension of Midland Metro which is due to open during 2015. The extension will leave the current Metro line just before Snow Hill railway station before travelling on a new viaduct and then down to street level. The line will travel along Upper Bull Street, Corporation Street before terminating at Stephenson Street outside New Street station. Recent photos of the current state of affairs on this extension are shown below courtesy of <strong>Ken Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8302\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8302\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8302\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8302\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8302\" title=\"SAM_1946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1946-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1946-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1946.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparations continue on Corporation Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8303\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8303\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8303\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8303\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8303\" title=\"SAM_1947\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1947-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1947-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1947.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scene at the junction of Bull Street and Corporation Street.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8304\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8304\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8304\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8304\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8304\" title=\"SAM_1948\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1948-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1948-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1948.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bull Street looking towards Colmore Circus.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8305\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8305\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8305\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8305\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8305\" title=\"SAM_1949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1949-412x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1949-412x550.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1949.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The junction of Bull Street with Temple Row.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_8306\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=8306\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8306\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8306\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8306\" title=\"SAM_1955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1955-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1955-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/SAM_1955.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And Snow Hill railway station itself with 15 departing the current tramstop. (All Photos: Ken Jones)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progress is continuing on the Birmingham City Centre extension of Midland Metro which is due to open during 2015. The extension will leave the current Metro line just before Snow Hill railway station before travelling on a new viaduct and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8301\">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\/8301"}],"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=8301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8301\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}