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Metro Extension to Centenary Square and beyond

DavidGrain said:
I understand that the fault was a result of the extra weight of the retro fitting of the batteries. However we have known for years that batteries would have to be fitted for Pinfold Street and Victoria Square so this should have been tested out long ago.
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Ah yes hadn't clocked that. Those batteries must be really heavy looking at the size of them. So much for computer models, should've got my slide rule and log tables out of retirement!
 
mikejee said:
As I understand it, it is the corporation street section that has to be relaid. Mind you , they did tarmac them over for quite a while and had to dig them out, so not really surprised.
For those interested here is "busy" Broad St complete with tram rails coming up to the tunnel from above taken on saturday at about 2.00 -scarcely bustling. They seem to have finished the tunnel bit and starting on the bit just past it

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Why would tarmac be laid over the tracks? Had no one told the road surfacing crew?
 
Then lines were laid , and tarmac deliberately put over them at New St because they were not yet ready to open the bit from Snow hill to the new st station , around the Christmas If I remember rightly. Maybe to make it smoother for people walking across ??!! The contractors seem pretty hopeless to me. The time it has taken to put down the lines in Broad st
 
I was looking for the previous thread that Astoness started that related how long the Snow Hill to New Street station route took to build. I remember the Queen came to open it and it was still incomplete. "Pretty hopeless" seems quite polite.
 
Contractors are busy digging up the tram tracks in Corporation Street ready for replacing them with new track.

It seems not too long ago when the track was first put down and trams started running to Grand Central.
 
Heartland said:
Contractors are busy digging up the tram tracks in Corporation Street ready for replacing them with new track.

It seems not too long ago when the track was first put down and trams started running to Grand Central.
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thanks heartland...quite right it was not that long ago that the tracks were first laid so more money for the city to find

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Many years ago there was a plan to have a bus lane along the Hagley Road as far as Bearwood. This would have run through front gardens or forecourts of all the buildings on the west bound side of the Hagley Road. It was said that only two buildings would have to be demolished, the building on the corner of Highfield Road and the Kings Head pub. This put a planning blight on the Highfield Road property so Calthorpe Estate moved their Estate Office into it as no one else wanted it.
I cannot imagine Hagley Road taking trams unless this plan is resurrected.
 
I have seen this report on another forum

The over head wires have been replaced over the new junction, but are currently "tensioned" with a block and tackle. Services terminate at St Chads late 25th Oct/early 27th so I presume this is for sorting out the overhead. Elsewhere the road markings are being painted so hopefully OK for next weekend.

I presume the opening of the Broad Street section is still on course for November/December.
 
Had a message from a friend today who lives in Edgbaston and walked along Broad Street. He wrote

The sub-station to provide power to the tram was installed on the
foundations within Five Ways roundabout last weekend. As there are no
overhead wires at that point, I presume it must feed the short section in
Broad Street that is so-equipped via an underground cable, and my guess is
that it's really there to provide power to any future extension down Hagley
Road.
 
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