{"id":26828,"date":"2019-04-05T22:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26828"},"modified":"2019-04-06T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T09:14:13","slug":"in-pictures-edinburgh-yards-gets-a-platform-%e2%80%93-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26828","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Haymarket Yards gets a platform \u2013 kind of!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only Blackpool where a new platform has been installed, and just like Blackpool the new structure in Edinburgh won\u2019t be seeing passengers any time soon \u2013 although for different reasons! The new low platform is at Haymarket Yards alongside the short three track layout at this location.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The exact purpose of this new platform is unknown but it is not of full height and is presumably just for staff use. It is immediately adjacent to the third track at Haymarket Yards \u2013 a track which is very occasionally used for the stabling of trams. Previously there was just ballast here so if any staff now have to alight from a stabled tram they have a far more secure area to do so.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26829\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=26829\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26829\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26829\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26829\" title=\"251-jh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/251-jh-550x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/251-jh-550x371.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/251-jh.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo we see 251 \u2013 still in an Edinburgh Live advert \u2013 passing by on the way to York Place. Haymarket tramstop is just around the corner and in the background the main line railway platforms of Haymarket can just be made out. (Photograph by John Hampton, 4th April 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not only Blackpool where a new platform has been installed, and just like Blackpool the new structure in Edinburgh won\u2019t be seeing passengers any time soon \u2013 although for different reasons! The new low platform is at Haymarket &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=26828\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828"}],"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=26828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26851,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26828\/revisions\/26851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}