{"id":56824,"date":"2025-01-05T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56824"},"modified":"2025-01-05T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T09:05:33","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-brantingham-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56824","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Brantingham Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be a new year but that doesn\u2019t stop us from continuing with \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time we go onto the common section of the East Didsbury and Manchester Airport lines, close to the stop at Chorlton which is the penultimate stop before the two lines split just after St Werburgh\u2019s Road. Chorlton first welcomed Metrolink on 7<sup>th<\/sup> July 2011 when the line as far as St Werburgh\u2019s Road opened to the public. This section of line is on the alignment of the former Manchester South District Railway which had closed on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> January 1967.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56825\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56825\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56825\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56825\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We look north here at Brantingham Road. This is the last road bridge over the line before Chorlton. As we see in this before photo taken on 5th April 2009 the track bed is discernable as it goes along the bottom of a row of gardens on the right.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56826\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56826\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56826\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">10th July 2011 \u2013 just three days after services began \u2013 and we are in the same location with a tram heading away from us with the clean ballast shining bright in this image. The gardens on the right now have new fences separating them from the tramway but to provide us with location context the green roofed shed is still in situ! (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be a new year but that doesn\u2019t stop us from continuing with \u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d over the next few weeks.<\/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\/56824"}],"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=56824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56827,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56824\/revisions\/56827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}