{"id":34071,"date":"2020-06-03T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34071"},"modified":"2020-06-03T16:39:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:39:10","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1017-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34071","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stay in 1992 for this latest edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as it\u2019s the first day of trams across Manchester City Centre on 27th April.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in the introduction 27th April 1992 was the day that the first modern trams ran in service on a UK street with the opening of the cross-city line (a line we\u2019ve come to know as the First City Crossing in more recent times). This ran between Victoria \u2013 where trams had been terminating from Bury since 6th April \u2013 and G-Mex (with this stop having been renamed Deansgate-Castlefield since) including stops at High Street, Market Street, Mosley Street and St Peter\u2019s Square. Of these new stops all have either been rebuilt or removed in the intervening years.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see <strong>1017<\/strong> on that first day just climbing up towards where Shudehill stop would eventually be built.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34072\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34072\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34072\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34072\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34072\" title=\"1017-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1017-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1017-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1017-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1017-rog.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ralph Oakes-Garnett<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stay in 1992 for this latest edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d as it\u2019s the first day of trams across Manchester City Centre on 27th April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071"}],"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=34071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34075,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34071\/revisions\/34075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}