{"id":32135,"date":"2020-01-15T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T18:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32135"},"modified":"2020-01-15T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:58:00","slug":"still-standing-%e2%80%93-extra-ashton-under-lyne-horse-tram-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=32135","title":{"rendered":"Still Standing \u2013 Extra! Ashton-under-Lyne Horse Tram Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow on from yesterday\u2019s edition of \u201cStill Standing!\u201d we head back around 60 years to take a look at the structure again, at a time when there were fears it may have to be demolished following a fire.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At this time there was still track in situ at the old depot \u2013 despite the fact that it had last seen trams nearly 60 years earlier! As far as is known the track has now been removed \u2013 or at the very least covered \u2013 as there is now no evidence of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32136\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32136\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-32136\" title=\"1.ashtontrack-wh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.ashtontrack-wh-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.ashtontrack-wh-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.ashtontrack-wh-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/1.ashtontrack-wh.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32137\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=32137\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32137\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32137\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32137\" title=\"2.ashtontrack-wh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2.ashtontrack-wh-550x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2.ashtontrack-wh-550x537.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/2.ashtontrack-wh.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These two images show the track still in place around 1960 when there were fears the depot may have had to be demolished following fire damage. (Both Photographs by W G S Hyde)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow on from yesterday\u2019s edition of \u201cStill Standing!\u201d we head back around 60 years to take a look at the structure again, at a time when there were fears it may have to be demolished following a fire.<\/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\/32135"}],"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=32135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32142,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32135\/revisions\/32142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}