{"id":32005,"date":"2020-01-07T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32005"},"modified":"2020-01-05T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T10:51:44","slug":"still-standing-horwich-tram-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32005","title":{"rendered":"Still standing! Horwich Tram Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of a new series \u201cStill Standing\u201d as we take a look at some remaining structures from the UK\u2019s first generation tramways. We have previously seen some old tram depots, tram overhead and in some cases remaining track on these pages and in this series we will be continuing that theme. We start off in the northwest with images of Bolton Corporation Tramway\u2019s Horwich Depot.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Opened in May 1900 by Bolton Corporation the car shed at Horwich is on the corner of Chorlton New Road and Beatrice Street and remained in use for trams until October 1946 when the Horwich route was abandoned, the year before the last route closed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32006\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32006\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32006\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32006\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32006\" title=\"1.horwich-dj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.horwich-dj-550x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.horwich-dj-550x267.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.horwich-dj-1024x497.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.horwich-dj.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now in use as industrial premises the \u201cBolton Corporation Car Shed\u201d legend is still in clear evidence of the structure.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_32007\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32007\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32007\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32007\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32007\" title=\"2.horwich-dj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2.horwich-dj-267x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2.horwich-dj-267x550.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2.horwich-dj-497x1024.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2.horwich-dj.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A second look at the building.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_32008\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32008\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32008\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32008\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32008\" title=\"3.horwich-dj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3.horwich-dj-267x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3.horwich-dj-267x550.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3.horwich-dj-497x1024.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/3.horwich-dj.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alongside the car shed was a waiting room with the sign also seen at the top here. (All Photographs by David Jones)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of a new series \u201cStill Standing\u201d as we take a look at some remaining structures from the UK\u2019s first generation tramways. We have previously seen some old tram depots, tram overhead and in some cases remaining &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32005\">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":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005"}],"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=32005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32011,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32005\/revisions\/32011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}