{"id":56664,"date":"2024-12-29T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T17:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56664"},"modified":"2024-12-22T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T19:30:21","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-st-werburghs-road-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56664","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: St Werburgh\u2019s Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last time this year we are looking at just what was there before the trams came along with this edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are at the same location as last time \u2013 north of the stop at St Werburgh\u2019s Road as we see how things have changed over 15 years with part of the phase 3 Metrolink extensions having arrived.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56665\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7a.stwerburghs-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56665\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7a.stwerburghs-kc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7a.stwerburghs-kc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7a.stwerburghs-kc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7a.stwerburghs-kc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo was taken on 5th March 2009 and is looking south towards where the St Werburgh\u2019s Road stop is now located with Didsbury beyond that. As we can see there is a path all the way along this side of the what would become the trackbed.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56666\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7b.stwerburghs-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56666\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56666\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7b.stwerburghs-kc-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7b.stwerburghs-kc-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7b.stwerburghs-kc-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/7b.stwerburghs-kc.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2nd May 2024 and we now have a tramway running through the middle of this location. Whereas in the \u201cThen\u201d photo the footpath continued along the right hand side it now comes to a quick halt with anyone wishing to walk down towards the tramstop having to cross the tramway and do so on the left. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last time this year we are looking at just what was there before the trams came along with this edition of \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d.<\/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\/56664"}],"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=56664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56667,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56664\/revisions\/56667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}