{"id":3538,"date":"2013-04-23T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3538"},"modified":"2013-04-23T19:35:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T18:35:05","slug":"testing-starts-to-east-didsbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3538","title":{"rendered":"Testing starts to East Didsbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a quiet few weeks since the opening of the Manchester Metrolink extensions to Droylsden and Rochdale Railway Station testing has now commenced on the section of the\u00a0South Manchester Line from St Werburgh\u2019s Road to East Didsbury which is due to open this summer. M5000s <strong>3059<\/strong> and <strong>3061<\/strong> were in use on these initial tests on Monday 23rd April \u2013 funnily enough these two trams were also used for the first tests beyond Droylsden on the East Manchester Line earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The South Manchester Line beyond St Werburgh\u2019s Road features an extra five stops at Withington, Burton Road, West Didsbury, Didsbury Village and the terminus at East Didsbury. When it opens for passenger services trams will run every 12 minutes at peak times from Rochdale Railway Station (15 minutes off peak) although the eventual aspiration is for a tram every 6 minutes on the line.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday 23rd April <strong>3059<\/strong> was noted as being at Didsbury Village and <strong>3061<\/strong> was seen stabled at West Didsbury although both trams were also seen on the move testing the line.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3539\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=3539\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3539\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3539\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3539\" title=\"P1010789a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1010789a-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1010789a-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/P1010789a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M5000 3059 is seen stabled in the stop at Didsbury Village on 23rd April during initial tests on the South Manchester Line to East Didsbury. The crew of the tram had left it here whilst they went off to have their lunch in the local chippie! (Photo: Steve Hyde)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a quiet few weeks since the opening of the Manchester Metrolink extensions to Droylsden and Rochdale Railway Station testing has now commenced on the section of the\u00a0South Manchester Line from St Werburgh\u2019s Road to East Didsbury which is due &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=3538\">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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538"}],"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=3538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3538\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}