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THE final piece of track on the West Midlands Metro’s Birmingham Westside Metro extension has been welded into place.

This marks the end of track laying on the project, paving the way for services to begin later this year to the terminus on Hagley Road.

Construction work, which is being done by the Midland Metro Alliance on behalf of Transport for West Midlands (TfWM), will now concentrate on completing the new tram stops at Brindleyplace,

Five Ways and Hagley

Road ahead of testing and commissioning.