{"id":49983,"date":"2023-06-18T17:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49983"},"modified":"2023-06-17T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T11:20:01","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-hardy-lane-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49983","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Hardy Lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d series today as we take a third look at Hardy Lane on the route of the Manchester Airport line.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Trams now run on Hardy Lane as they make their way to the Airport with services having started running on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> November 2014. It\u2019s the first part of street running on the extension with the line just having coming off a reserved section of track.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49984\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49984\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49984\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49984\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49984\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.hardylane-kc-1-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.hardylane-kc-1-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.hardylane-kc-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.hardylane-kc-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.hardylane-kc-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49984\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whereas the last couple of weeks we have seen a wide road and little change these photos show something little different. This is Hardy Lane\/Hurstville Road looking north east on 13th March 2011 and as we can see at this time this part of the road was relatively narrow with grass verges and driveways leading to the houses on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_49985\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=49985\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49985\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49985\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.hardylane-kc-2-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.hardylane-kc-2-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.hardylane-kc-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.hardylane-kc-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.hardylane-kc-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On 25th September 2014 (pre-opening of the line) 3087 is on driver training when captured running along Hardy Lane. As we can see the grass verges have gone and the roadway widened to allow the double track tramway to be laid. Cycle lanes are also now in place. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d series today as we take a third look at Hardy Lane on the route of the Manchester Airport line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49983"}],"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=49983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49986,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49983\/revisions\/49986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}