{"id":43559,"date":"2022-02-02T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43559"},"modified":"2022-01-29T14:41:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:41:17","slug":"out-and-about-trams-at-rest-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43559","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Trams at rest in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only day of the year in the UK where you will be unable to see a tram running anywhere is Christmas Day and in this latest edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d we take a look at trams resting on their day off in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_43560\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=43560\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43560\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43560\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-43560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.trafford-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.trafford-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.trafford-kc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.trafford-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1.trafford-kc.jpg 1230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-43560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manchester\u2019s Metrolink system is unique in modern tram systems in the UK in that they have two depots where their fleet of trams for the core service can be found and on Christmas Day this photo shows the newer of the two facilities \u2013 Trafford Depot. Eight of the stabling tracks \u2013 or roads as they are described on the destination screens \u2013 are seen in this view with the entire fleet of M5000s on depot (this depot and Queens Road) giving rare busy daylight images such as this. (Photograph by Keith Chadbourne, 25th December 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only day of the year in the UK where you will be unable to see a tram running anywhere is Christmas Day and in this latest edition of \u201cOut and About\u201d we take a look at trams resting on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=43559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559"}],"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=43559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43561,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43559\/revisions\/43561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}