{"id":56396,"date":"2024-12-08T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56396"},"modified":"2024-12-08T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T11:29:07","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-manchester-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56396","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Manchester Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have another edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d for you.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The location of our two photos this time around is adjacent to Manchester Central \u2013 now a conference and events centre but originally a railway station. Trams now pass this way when running between St Peter\u2019s Square and Deansgate-Castlefield.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56397\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4a.central-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56397\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56397\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4a.central-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4a.central-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4a.central-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4a.central-kc.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over the past few weeks this series has featured a lot of buses and its no different this week as passing the derelict Manchester Central station is Leyland Titan PD2 3706 which was working on route 186. This was one of the last rear entrance buses in service and has now been preserved. Central station certainly looks a little bit sorry for itself.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56398\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4b.central-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56398\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4b.central-kc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4b.central-kc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4b.central-kc-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/4b.central-kc.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Onto 5th March 2024 and things look a lot tidier here now! Trams now run on a viaduct as they rise from street level to the level of Deansgate-Castlefield and the former rail corridor. Manchester Central \u2013 as the conference centre is now know again \u2013 looks in much better condition as well. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have another edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d for you.<\/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\/56396"}],"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=56396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56399,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56396\/revisions\/56399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}