{"id":48911,"date":"2023-04-06T18:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48911"},"modified":"2023-04-06T17:54:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:54:38","slug":"metrolink-disruption-after-lorry-damages-overhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48911","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink disruption after lorry damages overhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink services to Piccadilly and Ashton were disrupted on Thursday 23<sup>rd<\/sup> March after a lorry hit and damaged overhead line equipment on London Road (just outside of Piccadilly Station).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The result of the damage was that a section of overhead wire had lost tension which meant that it wasn\u2019t possible to run trams into Piccadilly. Although its known a lorry was involved its not known exactly what it hit to cause the loss of tension.<\/p>\n<p>During the disruption no trams ran on the Ashton line while those to and from Eccles were diverted to Crumpsall.<\/p>\n<p>Services started to run again from around 1730.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink services to Piccadilly and Ashton were disrupted on Thursday 23rd March after a lorry hit and damaged overhead line equipment on London Road (just outside of Piccadilly Station).<\/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\/48911"}],"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=48911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48912,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48911\/revisions\/48912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}