{"id":53650,"date":"2024-05-05T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53650"},"modified":"2024-05-05T09:57:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T08:57:07","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53650","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staying in Manchester City Centre for this week\u2019s \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d as we take a look at Victoria Station.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53651\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53651\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53651\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53651\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4a.victoria-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4a.victoria-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4a.victoria-kc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4a.victoria-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4a.victoria-kc.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Of course today we are well used to trams entering the side of Victoria Station as they head off to Bury and Rochdale but in this 1990 view that was still very much to come and it would be hard to imagine what would be coming. The pedestrian entrance to the station is on the left with the \u201chole in the wall\u201d as it would become known to be added on the right hand side of this image.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53652\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=53652\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53652\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53652\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53652\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4b.victoria-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4b.victoria-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4b.victoria-kc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4b.victoria-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/4b.victoria-kc.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the now photo, taken on 30th August 2023, we see 3124 entering Victoria with a service to Rochdale (it\u2019s the back unit of a double). The pedestrian station entrance is seen just on the left to give us context and comparison. This is the second iteration of the entrance to Victoria with it redesigned and what was originally coined the \u201chole in the wall\u201d becoming a much larger entrance, along with extra tracks for 2CC. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying in Manchester City Centre for this week\u2019s \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d as we take a look at Victoria Station.<\/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\/53650"}],"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=53650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53653,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53650\/revisions\/53653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}