{"id":55281,"date":"2024-09-08T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55281"},"modified":"2024-09-08T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T08:10:45","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-cross-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55281","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Cross Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its another edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d and we continue our look around the newest section of city centre track \u2013 2CC.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Coming from the direction of St Peter\u2019s Square after 2CC has run along Princess Street it takes a sharp right turn into Cross Street as it continues its way along the route of the line which eventually comes back to Victoria.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55282\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1a.cross-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55282\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55282\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1a.cross-kc-550x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1a.cross-kc-550x440.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1a.cross-kc-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1a.cross-kc.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">As always we start with a before Metrolink came along image and this one was captured on 14th October 2014. We\u2019re just over two and a half years before trams would start running here and there is little indication of what is to come.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55283\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1b.cross-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55283\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1b.cross-kc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1b.cross-kc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1b.cross-kc-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/1b.cross-kc.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">But almost 10 years later and there is certainly an indication that trams now run here, no more so than 3030 which is working a service on the route as it turns into Cross Street. Businesses may come and go but Johnsons Specialist Cleaning is still on the corner of the street. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its another edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d and we continue our look around the newest section of city centre track \u2013 2CC.<\/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\/55281"}],"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=55281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55284,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55281\/revisions\/55284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}