{"id":35753,"date":"2020-09-29T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35753"},"modified":"2020-09-29T16:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:50:53","slug":"still-standing-tram-track-in-chester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=35753","title":{"rendered":"Still Standing! Tram track in Chester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over 90 years since the last tram ran in Chester but that doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t still some remaining tramway artefacts, including some track in the vicinity of the old depot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tram depot in Chester was situated on Station Road and was originally opened in 1879 for the standard gauge horse tramway before it was converted for electric trams in 1902\/3 which also saw the track gauge change to 3\u20196\u201d. It remained open for trams until February 1930 when Chester\u2019s tramway story ended and the building was converted for use by buses.<\/p>\n<p>The building has now long gone with student accommodation, known as Tramway, now in its place but its not just the name of the accommodation that looks back to the tramway era as there is a section of track in place, including several sets of points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35754\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35754\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1.chester-dj-310x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1.chester-dj-310x550.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1.chester-dj-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1.chester-dj.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35755\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35755\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2.chester-dj-310x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2.chester-dj-310x550.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2.chester-dj-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/2.chester-dj.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35756\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-35756\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3.chester-dj-310x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3.chester-dj-310x550.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3.chester-dj-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/3.chester-dj.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35757\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=35757\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35757\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35757\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/4.chester-dj-310x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/4.chester-dj-310x550.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/4.chester-dj-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/4.chester-dj.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Four images of the old 3\u20196\u201d gauge tram track in the vicinity of the Tramways student accommodation. One wonders how many students staying there have any idea of the historic track they probably pass every day! (All Photographs by Dave Jones)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over 90 years since the last tram ran in Chester but that doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t still some remaining tramway artefacts, including some track in the vicinity of the old depot.<\/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\/35753"}],"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=35753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35758,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions\/35758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}