If you mean the eastside route itself your fine waiting until the rest opens but if you specifically want Millennium Point tram stop this will close and be removed once the route is extended further as its only a temporary tram stop.
Millenium Point might appeal to the micro bashers in the meantime as return departures use a trailing crossover that will presumably become rare or abolished later?
Based on where the crossover is it does look to be in the permanent section of track, before the second track towards the city centre suddenly ends (photo attached), so I would think it would remain in place for use in disruption but yes it will not see regular use once the rest of the route opens.
Although I can manage without and maybe look for pix of it online, I thank you for this info so that any of us interested can see it while it remains open.
I'd imagine it will be like the one just after grand central, I don't think they use it since they extended to Library in 2019 as they prefer the one which is on the wolverhampton side of the stop.
Theres no stop on the route that isn’t used?
Correct
I see.
The first tram has gone into the extension, albeit only to test the connection to the existing route.
Given that the opening of the bus station at Dudley is not until at least September, they may as well try to open the Metro extension and the bus station on the same day.
Good, the latest of many many delays was put down to ‘signal commissioning’ but if they’re running test trams how can that be?The first tram has gone into the extension, albeit only to test the connection to the existing route.
The press article I saw also stated many "new" trams awaiting for the line to open to be put into service....
Oh dear... Same place again.
in that case, it's just as well the line was not built to run too close to Spaghetti Junction
Does make sense to clip the points and just send all the trams to the station. Though reliability of the whole route has declined since they opened the Eastside Extension.
Happens all the time, Ive seen trams almost end to end, but of course that means you’re looking at a long wait if you just miss one. I saw a departure board of 1minute and 28minutes recently and this was at peak time (around 5.30pm mid week)
They've even removed the "contactless travel" press release (archived copy), possibly hoping people will forget they even mentioned it in the first place. I suspect TPTB now want it integrated with the in-development contactless PAYG multi-operator bus fare arrangements from the get-go.
When they finally get round to changing over from being allowed to buy on board to a "you MUST buy before you board" scheme it will be a big culture shock, especially for those who might use not the trams that often. Using Nottingham for example when they switched over around 2014, how long of a grace period did they allow?
What a fantastic waste of money!
The ones they put in only a few months back don’t work!
Not really. The tap in and out is still going to be used, They are now installed and active (not with contactless cards and swift cards yet) at WMR stations.
Am I missing the relevance of that with the Midland Metro?
