{"id":46455,"date":"2022-09-21T18:00:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46455"},"modified":"2022-09-20T20:32:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T19:32:09","slug":"branch-line-society-to-tour-manchester-metrolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46455","title":{"rendered":"Branch Line Society to tour Manchester Metrolink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Branch Line Society are set for a treat on Sunday 25<sup>th<\/sup> September when they get to tour parts of Manchester Metrolink not normally covered by service trams. \u201cThe Busy Bee\u201d is a members only trip with only 60 places available \u2013 proceeds will be split equally between Royal Manchester Children\u2019s Hospital Charity and Manchester Youth Zone.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Planned to depart from Piccadilly at 1000 the tour is then scheduled to run:<\/p>\n<p>Piccadilly siding \u2013 Piccadilly inbound \u2013 Deansgate-Castlefield centre road \u2013 Cornbrook \u2013 Trafford Bar \u2013 West Didsbury crossover \u2013 Old Trafford Depot gates \u2013 Manchester Airport non-preferred platform \u2013 Martinscroft crossover \u2013 Robinswood Road crossover \u2013 Sale Water Park \u2013 Martinscroft crossover \u2013 Trafford Depot No. 2 Road \u2013 No. 7 Road \u2013 No. 1 Road \u2013 Old Trafford \u2013 Timperley siding \u2013 Cornbrook pocket \u2013 Viaduct crossover \u2013 Pomona \u2013 Village \u2013 Cornbrook pocket \u2013 Exchange Square \u2013 St Peter\u2019s Square \u2013 Piccadilly \u2013 Velopark \u2013 Piccadilly inbound<\/p>\n<p>The tour should be finished at 1630.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets cost \u00a355 for adults (accompanied under 18s \u00a327.50 reduction) and are only available to Branch Line Society members.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More details on the Branch Line Society website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.branchline.uk\/current-fixtures.php\">https:\/\/www.branchline.uk\/current-fixtures.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Branch Line Society are set for a treat on Sunday 25th September when they get to tour parts of Manchester Metrolink not normally covered by service trams. \u201cThe Busy Bee\u201d is a members only trip with only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46455\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46455"}],"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=46455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46456,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46455\/revisions\/46456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}