{"id":55771,"date":"2024-10-21T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55771"},"modified":"2024-10-19T19:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T18:04:23","slug":"out-and-about-manchester-metrolink-a-brief-stay-at-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=55771","title":{"rendered":"Out and About: Manchester Metrolink \u2013 a brief stay at Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We go to Victoria on the Manchester Metrolink network in this latest outing of \u201cOut and About\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55772\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.3099-kj.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55772\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.3099-kj-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.3099-kj-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.3099-kj-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1.3099-kj.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo shows 3099 as it departs from Victoria with a service which would have started back at Bury and is now running into Piccadilly. There it will terminate and after using the Sheffield Street turnback will head back this way and to Bury.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55773\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2.3011-kj.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55773\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2.3011-kj-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2.3011-kj-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2.3011-kj-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2.3011-kj.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The centre platform at Victoria is usually the preserve of the Manchester Airport service and that was also the case on this visit. 3011 is seen departing with a service out to the Airport as we just see another tram coming on the far side bound for Bury. Further to the right and a CAF built unit running for Northern is seen at the railway station.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55774\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3.31263117-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55774\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-55774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3.31263117-kc-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3.31263117-kc-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3.31263117-kc-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3.31263117-kc.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A coupled unit running to East Didsbury features in this photo. Its formed of 3126 on the left and 3117 \u2013 which has vinyls for Marks Electrical. (All Photographs by Ken Jones, 15th May 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We go to Victoria on the Manchester Metrolink network in this latest outing of \u201cOut and About\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55771"}],"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=55771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55775,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55771\/revisions\/55775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}