{"id":53488,"date":"2024-04-21T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53488"},"modified":"2024-04-21T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-21T07:30:22","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-piccadilly-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53488","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Piccadilly Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now move into Manchester City Centre as \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d continues.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today Piccadilly Gardens is an important hub of the Manchester Metrolink network with an island platform serving trams running to Piccadilly and onto Ashton with services going to Altrincham, Bury and Eccles in the opposite direction. Alongside is Piccadilly Gardens bus station which allows interchange between the two transport modes if desired.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53489\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53489\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53489\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53489\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1s.piccadillygardens-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1s.piccadillygardens-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1s.piccadillygardens-kc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1s.piccadillygardens-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/1s.piccadillygardens-kc.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This first photo was taken in 1990 and shows the bus station on the left. Its not just the changes to the bus station and the addition of Metrolink that have hit this scene since either with much development on the left and significant changes to Piccadilly Gardens which probably isn\u2019t very garden-y anymore.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53490\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53490\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53490\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53490\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53490\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2b.piccadillygardens-kc-550x411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2b.piccadillygardens-kc-550x411.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2b.piccadillygardens-kc-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2b.piccadillygardens-kc-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/2b.piccadillygardens-kc.jpg 1190w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">22nd August 2023 and 3102 is seen just arriving at Piccadilly Gardens having crossed Portland Street with a Piccadilly to Bury service. The current bus station is on the left and a lot of redevelopment has taken place in the vicinity with just a few trees seen on the right to give a clue of the garden part of the location. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now move into Manchester City Centre as \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d continues.<\/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\/53488"}],"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=53488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53491,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53488\/revisions\/53491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}