The project will see the existing Metro Centre at Potters Lane updated to receive 20 new trams as part of the £128m expansion of the line. Client is Centro, the Midlands’ passenger transport authority.
The work consists of a 42m extension to the east of the existing maintenance shed along with additional maintenance births, four new stabling sidings and a separate testing and commissioning shed.
There will also be also upgrades to the existing overhead line, infrastructure and communications, and a new substation will be built at Colliery Road, West Bromwich.
Centro is a new client for Morgan Sindall, whose managing director of infrastructure, Jag Paddam, said: “We offered a range of value engineering approaches which were enthusiastically received by the customer and which will help to ensure both expectations and budgets are met.”
Completion is scheduled for summer 2013.
The Midland Metro runs from Wolverhampton to Snow Hill station in Birmingham city centre via Bilston, Wednesbury and West Bromwich. The government gave the final go-ahead in February for work to start on a 1.3km extension from Snow Hill to New Street station in the heart of Birmingham city centre which will also see a new tram fleet.
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