{"id":28280,"date":"2019-06-20T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28280"},"modified":"2019-06-20T19:44:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T18:44:28","slug":"in-pictures-more-old-tram-track-discovered-in-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28280","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: More old tram track discovered in Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that if you like to see rediscovered tram track then the place to be at the moment is Sheffield as hot on the heels of the track found in Blonk Street more roadworks has seen further sections uncovered at Fitzalan Square.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Of course, Fitzalan Square is a name that has connections to the modern day Supertram network with a stop provided there on the outskirts of the city centre and served by trams running to Halfway, Middlewood, Meadowhall, Malin Bridge, Cathedral, Herdings Park and Rotherham Parkgate. But the original tram network \u2013 closed in 1960 of course \u2013 also served Fitzalan Square and these tracks, which are only a few yards away from the modern day network, were last used by service trams in October 1959 for services running to Wadsley Bridge. They did remain in situ until the end in the October of the following year before being covered by tarmac \u2013 until now!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=28281\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28281\" title=\"1.fitzalan-sc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1.fitzalan-sc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1.fitzalan-sc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1.fitzalan-sc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1.fitzalan-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28282\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=28282\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28282\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28282\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28282\" title=\"2.fitzalan-sc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2.fitzalan-sc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2.fitzalan-sc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2.fitzalan-sc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2.fitzalan-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The rediscovered track in Fitzalan Square. (Both Photographs by Stuart Cooke, 19th June 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that if you like to see rediscovered tram track then the place to be at the moment is Sheffield as hot on the heels of the track found in Blonk Street more roadworks has seen further sections uncovered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28280\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280"}],"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=28280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28301,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28280\/revisions\/28301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}