{"id":60756,"date":"2025-11-22T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60756"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:15:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T18:15:04","slug":"in-pictures-sale-water-park-becomes-a-metrolink-terminus-for-a-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60756","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Sale Water Park becomes a Metrolink terminus for a weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend of Saturday 1<sup>st<\/sup> and Sunday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November saw more engineering works taking place on Manchester Metrolink, and as always that led to inevitable service changes with trams unable to run through Trafford Bar for both days. One of the more unusual services in operation was between Manchester Airport and Sale Water Park as featured in this article.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With trams unable to get any further towards Manchester City Centre than Sale Water Park (the East Didbsury line was closed in its entirety as well) that is where trams from Manchester Airport were terminated. This saw the tram arrive in the usual city bound platform at Sale Water Park where they terminated. They then headed back to the Airport, departing from the same platform and using the trailing crossover after the stop to access the usual Airport bound track.<\/p>\n<p>Two different sets of trams were used for the service on the two days.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 1<sup>st<\/sup> November \u2013 12 minute frequency requiring six trams: 3015, 3017, 3070, 3103, 3117, 3121<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November \u2013 15 minute frequency requiring five trams: 3095, 3099, 3103, 3136, 3145<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60757\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3099-pg.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60757\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60757\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3099-pg-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3099-pg-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3099-pg-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3099-pg.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3099 stands at Sale Water Park ahead of departing with a service to Manchester Airport. (Photograph by Philip Gay, 2nd November 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weekend of Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd November saw more engineering works taking place on Manchester Metrolink, and as always that led to inevitable service changes with trams unable to run through Trafford Bar for both days. One of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60756\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60756"}],"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=60756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60758,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60756\/revisions\/60758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}