{"id":350641,"date":"2026-01-17T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/?p=895254"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:00:00","slug":"colas-rail-uk-awarded-contract-for-further-work-on-west-midlands-metro-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=350641","title":{"rendered":"Colas Rail UK awarded contract for further work on West Midlands Metro extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-960x720.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Swtiches and Crossings installed by the Midland Metro Alliance. \/\/ Credit: Colas Rail\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-960x720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-750x563.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Image-28.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Colas Rail UK has been awarded a further contract for construction work on extensions to the West Midlands Metro network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colas Rail UK has been awarded a further contract for construction work on extensions to the West Midlands Metro network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406,8601,19284,47,6948,2376,2411,7865],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-350641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham","category-colas-rail","category-midland-metro-alliance","category-rail-news","category-trams","category-west-midlands","category-west-midlands-combined-authority","category-west-midlands-metro","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350642,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350641\/revisions\/350642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}