{"id":44125,"date":"2022-03-09T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2022-03-09T19:49:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:49:26","slug":"in-pictures-broken-down-bus-causes-supertram-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44125","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Broken down bus causes Supertram delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stagecoach Supertram services to Middlewood were temporarily suspended for around four hours on Friday 4<sup>th<\/sup> March after a bus broke down on Leppings Lane blocking the outbound line heading to Middewood.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bus broke down at around 1300 \u2013 a Wright Streetlife bus operated by First, fleet number 63008 \u2013 and was stuck blocking the tram line for about four hours. During the blockage <strong>111<\/strong> was trapped the wrong side of the bus and had to remain there until the bus was cleared. Services on the Yellow route were diverted to Malin Bridge throughout the disruption.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_44126\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=44126\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44126\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44126\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44126\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1.111-sc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1.111-sc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1.111-sc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1.111-sc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/1.111-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With the bus ahead, 111 waits on Leppings Lane for it to be moved before it can continues towards the city.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_44127\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=44127\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44127\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-44127\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-44127\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2.120-sc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2.120-sc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2.120-sc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2.120-sc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2.120-sc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-44127\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">120 comes off Holme Lane on the approach to Hillsborough with a diverted Yellow route service which started back at Malin Bridge instead of Middlewood. (Both Photographs by Stuart Cooke, 4th March 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stagecoach Supertram services to Middlewood were temporarily suspended for around four hours on Friday 4th March after a bus broke down on Leppings Lane blocking the outbound line heading to Middewood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125"}],"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=44125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44128,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44125\/revisions\/44128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}