{"id":37424,"date":"2021-01-30T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37424"},"modified":"2021-01-29T17:04:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T17:04:04","slug":"lockdown-walks-manchester-metrolink-3061-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=37424","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3061"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d series continues today as we are off to Manchester for another look at the Metrolink system under tier 3 restrictions in late 2020.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The next few instalments of this series in Manchester will be on the Ashton-under-Lyne line \u2013 or the East Manchester line to give it its official title. This line opened in two phases in 2013, between Piccadilly and Droylsden on 11<sup>th<\/sup> February and then through to Ashton on 9<sup>th<\/sup> October. Before Covid-19 arrived the 6 mile long line enjoyed a tram every 6 minutes with alternate departures from Ashton to MediaCityUK and Eccles but at the time of writing this has been reduced to a 10 minute frequency with all trams heading to Eccles and running via MediaCityUK.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37425\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=37425\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37425\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37425\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/3061-sh-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/3061-sh-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/3061-sh-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/3061-sh-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/3061-sh.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo we see 3061 awaiting departure from Ashton West with a service which will run through to the terminus at Ashton-under-Lyne. (Photograph by Steve Hyde, 10th December 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d series continues today as we are off to Manchester for another look at the Metrolink system under tier 3 restrictions in late 2020.<\/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\/37424"}],"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=37424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37426,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37424\/revisions\/37426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}