{"id":1990,"date":"2012-10-07T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2012-10-07T20:50:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T19:50:13","slug":"tests-start-on-south-manchester-line-to-didsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Tests start on South Manchester Line to Didsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another significant milestone has been achieved on Manchester Metrolink with the start of a short period of testing on the South Manchester line beyond St Werburgh\u2019s Road to East Didsbury. The first test run took place on Thursday 4<sup>th<\/sup> October and further periods of testing were expected for the remainder of that week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Residents near to the tramline, which is an extension of the South Manchester which\u00a0 currently terminates at St Werburgh\u2019s Road, were sent letters to inform them that testing would take place between 2300 and 0500 each night. The line has five new stops at Withington, Burton Road, West Didsbury, Didsbury Village and East Didsbury and is expected to open to the public in summer 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The extension to the South Manchester line is expected to be preceded by the opening of the Rochdale line (an extension of the current Oldham Mumps line) and the East Manchester Line to Droyslden, both of which have already seen some test running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another significant milestone has been achieved on Manchester Metrolink with the start of a short period of testing on the South Manchester line beyond St Werburgh\u2019s Road to East Didsbury. The first test run took place on Thursday 4th October &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=1990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}