{"id":39508,"date":"2021-05-21T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39508"},"modified":"2021-05-15T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T12:51:02","slug":"lockdown-walks-manchester-metrolink-3090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39508","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3090"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for a quick trip into Manchester City Centre for another edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Throughout this series we have often mentioned the historic buildings which provide the backdrop for photos of trams in Edinburgh, but Edinburgh doesn\u2019t have the monopoly on trams and historic buildings! The Midland Hotel opened in 1903 having been built by the Midland Railway to service Manchester Central Railway Station which was the northern terminus of their line from London St Pancras. Now a grade II* listed building it remains open as a hotel being operated under the Leonardo Hotels brand. It has recently undergone a \u00a314 million renovation to bring it up to modern standards and remains at the higher end of the hotel market in the city.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39509\" style=\"width: 426px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=39509\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39509\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39509\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39509\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3090-km-416x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3090-km-416x550.jpg 416w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3090-km-774x1024.jpg 774w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3090-km-768x1016.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3090-km.jpg 974w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this photo we see 3090 heading out of the city and passed the Midland Hotel on the left. It may be nearly 118 years old but the hotel still dominates the scene around St Peter\u2019s Square and Lower Mosley Street. (Photograph by Kate Meeson)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its time for a quick trip into Manchester City Centre for another edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d.<\/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\/39508"}],"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=39508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39510,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39508\/revisions\/39510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}