Trams are cool. I wish there were more than just the Croydon one in the southern half of England. I was on a geography field trip in early 1999 and for some odd reason, we went to Wolverhampton and I remember them building the original bit you commented on! Kudos for getting this out so quickly!
Another superb presentation Jen as ever. Using a bit of artistic license there between tram 31 and tram 51! Haha. 31's significance was that it is named "Cyrille Regis,MBE" in honour of the late soccer player who, in his soccer career, mainly in the Midlands, played for Wolverhampton Wanderers. I also picked up on the incorrect stop announcements. It was lovely to finally meet you at Wednesbury Parkway. Keep up the excellent work and keep us all enthralled! Michael
Don't know why but it is the same on our local National Express West Midlands Bus Services X12 and X13, the first stop out of Birmingham city Center they announce as " Bromford Way" where in fact the Stop is in Bromford Road and it took ages to realise they are announcing that the stop is situated opposite an obscure Cul-de-sac called " Bromford Way" that no body realy knows about.
Thanks for posting this. I'm from Wolverhampton and living in the US, so it's nice to see the home city. The place is clean and I'm loving the new train station. I like that there's more travel options now.
These would have been useful running just a few weeks earlier. The lift on the platform for trains to london was out of order for so many weeks that I could either have them put me in a taxi (that admittedly they would pay for) to the next accessible station the train called at) or (the one I did) get a train from a different platform to Birmingham and split my journey on slower trains. OR have the last train from Euston to Stafford be later so I can catch one there as their lifts are more reliable. The platform 4 lift at Wolverhampton is forever broken! But is the platform that all direct avanti trains leave from! Tram would have meant I didn’t have to wait for a random Birmingham based train that doesn’t leave from platform 4!
great video, really enjoyed it, very informative but also funny though when you bumped into friends by chance. really good that the tram goes to Wolverhampton rail station long overdue. Much easier for people changing from train to tram.
I look forward to riding that section, after years of photographing Pipers Row to Wolverhampton Station. Started in 2017 finished in 2023. And they stopped until the new Wolverhampton Station building was completed. Maybe years before the Eastside Extension opens. Tracks in Digbeth in parts, and lower Bull Street, but not yet in Eastside near HS2. Hopefully the Dudley line opens soon.
I used to go to Wolverhampton University in from 1997 to 2000 and was looking at the works on the Bilston Road when passing on the train - Wolvo looks very different these days to back then! Even the station - 3 through platforms, 2 bay and sidings. I believe the Stafford facing sidings have gone and another through platform is on top of the sidings. Seems like yeasterday, over half my bloody life ago!!
When I visited Birmingham I found the tram prices significantly expensive. Metrolink a lot cheaper and comfortable. I believe it cost me £7.60 for an all day ticket on WMM compared to £2.40 for all zones all day on Metrolink
Costa Coffee should be your main sponsor. I am sure they would too!!! There is a shortage of Costa coffees in the Midlands this afternoon following your visit!!!! hahaha
Yep, trams are cool , we should have more of them. Can’t they build one from London to Birmingham, instead of that other thing they’re struggling to build .t
If you took all the TH-camrs off these 'first tram/train/tube to...' or 'new station opens today' videos, would there be anybody else left on board? Nice to see Nick Badley, though.
Think of all the Trams , improvements to existing tracks, trains in the north of the country instead of spinning billions on Lord Adonis HS2…Birmingham to the outskirts of London anyone?????
Well we can’t improve local services here now that we’re stuck with London services clogging up our existing network. Ridiculous decision to cancel it, sets the north back decades
Great video Jen. It’s nice to see the Wolverhampton Tram extension now open! It’s a great interchange to the train, tram & bus station now.
Omg blue trams with purple seats!? I love it! 💙💜💙💜💙 OMG! And Nick! Yay! Jen and Nick!
Great Video Jen .Dispatcher's reaction to the word moist was pretty funny but really enjoyed the journey on the first tram
Moist!
You work fast Jen👏
Good to see you 👍
Good to see you too! Sorry it was brief!
Great video and nice to meet you and Nick while filming on the extension too. Congratulations for reaching 9K 😊
I thought i saw you in the video at Wolverhampton station tram stop!!
Was filming too, not as quick as Jen for editing. Will be uploading later on today.@@peterpowis4145
@@streetrambler134 looking forward to seeing that!! 👍🏻
Great to meet you too!
Trams are cool. I wish there were more than just the Croydon one in the southern half of England.
I was on a geography field trip in early 1999 and for some odd reason, we went to Wolverhampton and I remember them building the original bit you commented on!
Kudos for getting this out so quickly!
It is time more Cities had tram systems. Leicester should have one. Nottingham has a good tram system
@@michelle47 - absolutely - I think Coventry might get one soon…
There is always talk about opening more train stations and lines but it’s all talk and no action same with tram systems
As someone from Cambridge, I think Cambridge should have trams ;)
Also possibly around Portsmouth and Gosport, and maybe in Bristol, or Medway
@@HesterClapp - you’ve got a guided busway - what more do you want? ;)
Congrats on 9k. Great to finally see the extension open, even if it is relatively modest.
Thanks Chris!
Another superb presentation Jen as ever. Using a bit of artistic license there between tram 31 and tram 51! Haha.
31's significance was that it is named "Cyrille Regis,MBE" in honour of the late soccer player who, in his soccer career, mainly in the Midlands, played for Wolverhampton Wanderers.
I also picked up on the incorrect stop announcements.
It was lovely to finally meet you at Wednesbury Parkway.
Keep up the excellent work and keep us all enthralled!
Michael
It was great to finally meet you too! Going full circle after meeting your daughter last year!
Nice quick edit!! Always good to see more connections to existing railway and bus stations, shame the announcements were not on point!!
Don't know why but it is the same on our local National Express West Midlands Bus Services X12 and X13, the first stop out of Birmingham city Center they announce as " Bromford Way" where in fact the Stop is in Bromford Road and it took ages to realise they are announcing that the stop is situated opposite an obscure Cul-de-sac called " Bromford Way" that no body realy knows about.
Thanks for posting this. I'm from Wolverhampton and living in the US, so it's nice to see the home city. The place is clean and I'm loving the new train station. I like that there's more travel options now.
i enjoyed watching this its amazing to see the extension to Wolverhampton station now open brilliant vlog
Brilliant video of the West Midlands metro extension to Wolverhampton station Jen, it's nice to see that it's finally open. :)
These would have been useful running just a few weeks earlier. The lift on the platform for trains to london was out of order for so many weeks that I could either have them put me in a taxi (that admittedly they would pay for) to the next accessible station the train called at) or (the one I did) get a train from a different platform to Birmingham and split my journey on slower trains. OR have the last train from Euston to Stafford be later so I can catch one there as their lifts are more reliable. The platform 4 lift at Wolverhampton is forever broken! But is the platform that all direct avanti trains leave from! Tram would have meant I didn’t have to wait for a random Birmingham based train that doesn’t leave from platform 4!
Glad to see it finally open! Great video! 👍🏻
A great film again. I love getting out and about with you Jen! 😊 Thank you.
Love this video Jen! I unluckily couldn't make it so thank you for filming this! ❤
Nah its a police escort for you Jen because they know how incredibly important you are
Now thats very sweet
Nah that's only at Heathrow Airport
Another fab video Jen.
I'll be behind the curve as usual 😂 but looking forward to seeing this myself.
Thanks again ~ Matt
That's one helluva cool tram...😊
Great video Jen!
Well done on 9K.👍🙂
Thanks so much! 😊
Well done for getting this video out so early, and also for 9K subs 👍
Thankyou 😃
I miss the Guy buses still. (and the trolleybuses)
Glad you got to ride the new extension
great video, really enjoyed it, very informative but also funny though when you bumped into friends by chance. really good that the tram goes to Wolverhampton rail station long overdue. Much easier for people changing from train to tram.
I look forward to riding that section, after years of photographing Pipers Row to Wolverhampton Station. Started in 2017 finished in 2023. And they stopped until the new Wolverhampton Station building was completed. Maybe years before the Eastside Extension opens. Tracks in Digbeth in parts, and lower Bull Street, but not yet in Eastside near HS2. Hopefully the Dudley line opens soon.
Very nice to see the extension to Wolverhampton station now completed. Maybe the West Midlands Metro tram could extend to Merry Hill shopping centre.
Lovely video as usual Jen, glad to see the extension open - even if I moved away from Birmingham too soon to see it in person.
Same voice as the Circle and District lines. It's finally nice to see a new tram extension after Edinburgh
Lovely video as always Jen!
Thank you!
Jen we all love watching ur videos u inspired alot of us 😊
Also keep up the awesome videos looking forward to seeing next extension
Great video Jen. My son watches this morning and night he probs your highest viewer on this lol x
Happens all the time on the Tyne & Wear Metro usually on the St James to Whitley Bay portion
EEeeee that rubbery sqeeeeeek. That would drive me nuts
I used to go to Wolverhampton University in from 1997 to 2000 and was looking at the works on the Bilston Road when passing on the train - Wolvo looks very different these days to back then! Even the station - 3 through platforms, 2 bay and sidings. I believe the Stafford facing sidings have gone and another through platform is on top of the sidings. Seems like yeasterday, over half my bloody life ago!!
Looks good.
It’s only taken about five years.
hey and then a Spanish tram CAF, from now on also CAF coastal trams (sea liner) on the Belgian coast
Speedy Jen again, and congratulations on 9K subs. Well deserved.
Thank you so much!
Great video Jen, there are Trams in Dublin, Ireland too!
If you look back in my video list to earlier this year, I’ve got a couple of videos from there!
@JenOnTheMove Awesome I will check them out, thanks 😊
Sounds very squeeky as it takes those corners.
When I visited Birmingham I found the tram prices significantly expensive. Metrolink a lot cheaper and comfortable. I believe it cost me £7.60 for an all day ticket on WMM compared to £2.40 for all zones all day on Metrolink
Great video so exciting to watch.
great video! excited for the new bigger project 😮 🤞
Great video Jen
The agony of choice, a costa or a tram... no contest really, great vid as always, tfs 😀
But she took the tram! Wow! Now that's dedication. 😂
Ooh, Paul and Rebecca are you Patrons, never noticed that before.
Funny you should bring up 1999. I've been on a 1999 film binge right now.
1999 might be the best year for cinema, ever...
Costa Coffee should be your main sponsor. I am sure they would too!!!
There is a shortage of Costa coffees in the Midlands this afternoon following your visit!!!! hahaha
Maybe the reason why that tram was chosen as It was named after cirrle regis
Jen: "trams trams trams", Me: "Trams Trams Trams!", Evereone: "TRAMS TRAMS TRAMS"!
Trams!!
nice video Jen
Great video
Im doing buses
Looks like fun.
I haven't been to to Wolverhampton in Yonks!!!!
It’s definitely changed a lot!
Yep, trams are cool , we should have more of them. Can’t they build one from London to Birmingham, instead of that other thing they’re struggling to build .t
I’m not sure a tram all the way to London would be comfortable 😂
Beautiful music! What is it?
West Midlands Metro
No time for a Costa? Poor planning 😂
It’s okay, this video got edited in a Costa 😉
well done for 9K
Thank you!
DustCart"! lol
24 years ago i was 25.
Interesting.
trams are cool
i mean it is until its called a metro
If you took all the TH-camrs off these 'first tram/train/tube to...' or 'new station opens today' videos, would there be anybody else left on board? Nice to see Nick Badley, though.
No because no same person would be the same again.
Hm. Six years to extend by two stops. The famous laid back practices of the West Midlands…
Think of all the Trams , improvements to existing tracks, trains in the north of the country instead of spinning billions on Lord Adonis HS2…Birmingham to the outskirts of London anyone?????
Well we can’t improve local services here now that we’re stuck with London services clogging up our existing network.
Ridiculous decision to cancel it, sets the north back decades
hi
Pity about the awful "music".
You’re welcome to not watch 🙂
Lol you bumping into nick lol
I went to wovevs today
@JenOnTheMove and @royaltyfam