{"id":56626,"date":"2024-12-22T17:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T17:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56626"},"modified":"2024-12-22T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T11:46:54","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-st-werburghs-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56626","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: St Werburgh\u2019s Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d series with another pair of images.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Having spent time in Manchester City Centre and then a brief stay on the Altrincham line we go more modern Metrolink lines this time as we head to St Werburgh\u2019s Road. Once a terminus (before the full line to East Didsbury was opened) this stop is now an interchange between both the East Didsbury and Manchester Airport lines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56627\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a.stwerburghs-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56627\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56627\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a.stwerburghs-kc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a.stwerburghs-kc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a.stwerburghs-kc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a.stwerburghs-kc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is just to the north of St Werburgh\u2019s Road as we look back towards Manchester. At the time of this photo on 16th August 2009 there was very little indication that trams would be running this way in the near future but this shot is looking through the fence at what would be the trackbed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56628\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6b.stwerbughs-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56628\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56628\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6b.stwerbughs-kc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6b.stwerbughs-kc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6b.stwerbughs-kc-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6b.stwerbughs-kc.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We now move forward to 2nd May 2024 and trams have established themselves as we look into the same direction. The trackbed now has track laid and also 3060 heading away from us with a service to Exchange Square (terminating short due to issues with the track outside Victoria). In the previous picture we saw this path behind the green fence and that remains although there is now new fencing in place. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d series with another pair of images.<\/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\/56626"}],"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=56626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56629,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56626\/revisions\/56629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}