{"id":51867,"date":"2023-12-03T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51867"},"modified":"2023-12-03T11:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T11:25:05","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-cambrian-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51867","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Cambrian Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for another edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d and this time the during construction and once trams were running images come from Cambrian Street on the East Manchester Line.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Both of the below photos are taken from the Cambrian Street bridge which crosses over the Metrolink line as it runs between Holt Town and Ethihad Campus at the city end of the East Manchester Line which, of course, ends up at Ashton-under-Lyne.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51868\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51868\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51868\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51868\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51868\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1a.cambrianst-kc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1a.cambrianst-kc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1a.cambrianst-kc-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1a.cambrianst-kc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1a.cambrianst-kc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We look northeast in these two photos and this first one was taken on 7th March 2010 \u2013 just under three years before the first trams would run in service along this alignment.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_51869\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51869\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51869\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51869\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1b.cambrianst-kc-550x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1b.cambrianst-kc-550x440.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1b.cambrianst-kc-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1b.cambrianst-kc-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1b.cambrianst-kc.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Then on 18th July 2023 and 3116 is seen working a service to Weaste (trams weren\u2019t going to Eccles due to trackworks) in the same location. The main point of connection to allow us to tell it\u2019s the same location is the pathway on the right which remains in situ. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for another edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d and this time the during construction and once trams were running images come from Cambrian Street on the East Manchester 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\/51867"}],"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=51867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51870,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51867\/revisions\/51870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}