Date: 31/05/2016

TRAMS started running on the Midland Metro extension to New Street on the late May Bank Holiday Monday, without any prelaunch publicity. The project to bring trams from Snow Hill into the city centre should have been completed last year, and encountered a further snag when a planned launch on 22 May was delayed again by the discovery of 'minor track anomolies'. However, it was possible to bring trams past Snow Hill as far as a temporary terminus at Bull Street in December, and passenger figures have risen in response. [From Richard Buckby]

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TRAMS started running on the Midland Metro extension to New Street on the late May Bank Holiday Monday, without any prelaunch publicity. The project ...