{"id":50153,"date":"2023-07-02T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T16:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50153"},"modified":"2023-06-29T21:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:24:44","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-ayres-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=50153","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Ayres Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThen &amp; Now\u201d moves away from the Manchester Airport line this week and we instead head onto the South Manchester line (although Airport line trams do also traverse the section we feature here).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just after the tram leaves Trafford Bar and takes the junction onto the South Manchester line it turns left past Trafford Depot and goes under Ayres Road. And that is where today\u2019s photos come from.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50154\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50154\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50154\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50154\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.ayresrd-kc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.ayresrd-kc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.ayresrd-kc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.ayresrd-kc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/1.ayresrd-kc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this image \u2013 taken 4th March 2009 \u2013 we see that construction is already underway with a lone digger in the foreground. The sun may be out but there has obviously been some rain which has fallen fairly recently as its muddy underfoot. We are looking back towards the Altrincham line in this photo.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_50155\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=50155\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-50155\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50155\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.ayresrd-kc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.ayresrd-kc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.ayresrd-kc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.ayresrd-kc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/2.ayresrd-kc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">16th June 2011 now and it\u2019s a much cleaner view with fresh track and ballast down as we again look back towards the Altrincham. Trams started running on the South Manchester line as far as St Werburgh\u2019s Road less than a month later (7th July 2011) so this was a test\/driver training run. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThen &amp; Now\u201d moves away from the Manchester Airport line this week and we instead head onto the South Manchester line (although Airport line trams do also traverse the section we feature here).<\/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\/50153"}],"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=50153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50156,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50153\/revisions\/50156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}