{"id":38845,"date":"2021-03-28T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38845"},"modified":"2021-03-27T12:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T12:19:48","slug":"lockdown-walks-manchester-metrolink-3085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=38845","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3085"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another \u201cLockdown Walk\u201d as we venture out onto Manchester Metrolink\u2019s East Manchester line out to Ashton-under-Lyne.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The below photo was taken on the second section of the East Manchester line to open to passengers with the first public services running between Droylsden and Ashton-under-Lyne on 9<sup>th<\/sup> October 2013. Initially served by a tram every 12 minutes the frequency had been increased to every 6 minutes for most of the day (except Sundays) before the pandemic struck with trams now running every 10 minutes in the revised timetable operating across the network as a result of the lower passenger numbers being carried.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38846\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38846\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38846\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38846\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38846\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3085-sh-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3085-sh-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3085-sh-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/3085-sh.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here we see 3085 at Ashton West at the junction between Lord Sheldon Way and Richmond Street as it approaches the tramstop heading for Eccles. The red \u2018T\u2019 sign denotes the end of a temporary speed restriction at this location following a serious RTC late last year when a van demolished an overhead line pole resulting in a rather long wire span. (Photograph by Steve Hyde, 4th March 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for another \u201cLockdown Walk\u201d as we venture out onto Manchester Metrolink\u2019s East Manchester line out to Ashton-under-Lyne.<\/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\/38845"}],"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=38845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38847,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38845\/revisions\/38847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}