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West Midlands Metro - Edgbaston Village Extension

Footage from 17th July 2022, the first working day of West Midlands Metro trams to Edgbaston Village on the Hagley Road. This video includes the refurbished route from Bull Street onwards. Note, there was much less bus traffic on Broad Street on this day due to a road closure in Centenary Square to dismantle a nearby crane. For the first time, modern trams operate through the city centre of Birmingham - entering on the existing line near Jewellery Quarter and exiting near Five Ways before terminating at the new Edgbaston Village tram stop. Development of the new 'Westside Extension' was split into two parts, Grand Central (Birmingham New Street Station) to Library (Centenary Square) with an intermediate stop at Town Hall, followed by the newly-opened section along Broad Street, stopping at Brindleyplace and Five Ways before terminating at Edgbaston Village. The first section opened briefly until a full-service suspension due to defects with tram vehicles. While this was happening, the opportunity was taken to reconfigure the track between Bull Street and Grand Central, including Corporation Street, to reinforce the existing trackbed from the original city centre extension, and to install a delta junction as part of the forthcoming 'Eastside Extension'. The new wireless sections require trams with batteries and have allowed the route to avoid using overhead wires around the sensitive architecture of the Town Hall and Victoria Square, and for less clutter at interfaces with road infrastructure. Watch for moments in this video where pantographs are raised and lowered on entering and exiting different powered sections. Since the first city centre extension in 2015, newer Urbos 100 trams have joined the fleet, these have a slightly different design and were delivered with batteries already installed on the roofs, unlike the Urbos 3 fleet which had to be retrofitted to use the wireless sections of the new extension. The first of these sections are between Grand Central and Brindleyplace, where the wires resume until the next stop at Five Ways, the second wireless section is between Five Ways and Edgbaston Village where the route dives under the Five Ways island (roundabout), a major junction on the city's ringroad. The fare structure has also changed, now using a zonal system. All the stations in this video are in zone 1. The Midland Metro is now known as West Midlands Metro with a new livery, it is now operated by Midland Metro Ltd, under Transport for West Midlands, replacing National Express and the pink branding.