{"id":56901,"date":"2025-01-12T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56901"},"modified":"2025-01-12T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T09:20:33","slug":"manchester-metrolink-then-now-brantingham-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56901","title":{"rendered":"Manchester Metrolink Then &#038; Now: Brantingham Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d time again as we continue our look at the network before or during construction and after trams started to run.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This week we\u2019re again at Brantingham Road on the East Didsbury and Manchester Airport lines to St Werburgh\u2019s Road, but this time we look towards the Chorlton stop. As we wrote last week this first welcomed Metrolink on 7<sup>th<\/sup> July 2011 \u2013 at that time it was just part of the line as far as St Werburgh\u2019s Road with both the section to East Didsbury and the Manchester Airport yet to come.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56903\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56903\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56903\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-1-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-1-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1a.brantingham-kc-1.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56903\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This first image makes you very glad that they have clearly sorted out the drainage on the old Manchester South District Railway trackbed! Resembling a river we are looking towards where the stop at Chorlton would be constructed with the date given as 16th August 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_56904\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56904\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56904\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-1-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-1-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1b.brantingham-kc-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56904\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">10th July 2011 and things look a lot drier! We again look from the same overbridge as a tram heads away from us with a service which will go as far as it could at this time \u2013 St Werburgh\u2019s Road. Chorlton tramstop is out of sight around the corner. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cManchester Metrolink Then &amp; Now\u201d time again as we continue our look at the network before or during construction and after trams started to run.<\/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\/56901"}],"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=56901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56905,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56901\/revisions\/56905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}