{"id":36782,"date":"2020-12-12T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36782"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:33:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:33:13","slug":"lockdown-walks-manchester-metrolink-3055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36782","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3055"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we are again taking a trip to Manchester to see the busy Metrolink network.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The stop at St Werburgh\u2019s Road is a busy junction with it being the last stop before (or first stop after depending which way you\u2019re going!) the lines to Manchester Airport and East Didbsury split and go on their respective ways. This means that when a standard timetable runs (as in before Coronavirus) it was seeing 15 trams an hour in each direction with a tram every 12 minutes on the Airport line plus the Shaw &amp; Crompton-East Didsbury and Rochdale Town Centre-Rochdale service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36783\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36783\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36783\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36783\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3055-kc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3055-kc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3055-kc-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3055-kc-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3055-kc.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo we see 3055 as it heads a service to Manchester Airport at the junction with the East Didsbury line. (Photograph by Keith Chadbourne, 4th November 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we are again taking a trip to Manchester to see the busy Metrolink network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36782"}],"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=36782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36784,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36782\/revisions\/36784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}