No trains serving Rotherham Central this weekend due to engineering works connected with the tram/train scheme. Good thing that Central is on a loop meaning that diversion is fairly simple with bustitution only required between Meadowhall and Swinton via Rotherham.
Same situation most Sundays this summer it seems.
Nothing visible (no new works, no engineering trains) on the Rotherham Central loop this afternoon. The Parkgate tram stop site has track piled up but is not connected to the main line, or ballasted in. No platforms yet, but there are raised-up equipment cabinets at Parkgate itself and just the Rotherham side of the road bridge.
Rotherham Central platform extensions are not really started in earnest - there's a bit of excavation on the Sheffield-bound side, at the Sheffield end, where they've relocated a signal closer to Sheffield, but that's been done for a month at least.
Most of the trackside piles for the overhead lines are in the ground between Rotherham Central Junction (by Booths scrapyard) and Parkgate, but no masts, unlike the freight-only section towards Tinsley, where the masts are up as well (but no wiring yet).
Work has been done on some bridges around Rotherham, with anti-climb coping installed.
Some groundworks have been done under the M1 viaduct at Tinsley for the linking chord, but no pointwork on the tram side when I looked last week. An additional length of track has been in place for a good few weeks, running parallel to the single track freight line, heading towards the chord (roughly at the former Tinsley East Junction. I can't see from public viewpoints whether that length has been connected to the live running line.