{"id":64755,"date":"2026-09-25T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64755"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:06:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:06:49","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-765-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64755","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester 765"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heaton Park is again the location as we continue to see some photos of <strong>Manchester 765<\/strong> in the early days of the preserved tramway in 1980.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This was the very end of the tramway back then as evidenced by the grass verge and fence in front (or behind depending on your point of view really!) of <strong>Manchester 765<\/strong> which would make any further progress impossible for the single deck tramcar.<\/p>\n<p>Today the tramway runs to New Lakeside in an extension built in 2011 (some 15 years ago now) and has left the route being approximately 0.84km long.<\/p>\n<p>The pristine state of the new tarmac is again evident though sadly passengers appear to have been few and far between on an afternoon of generally good weather.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64756\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/765-db.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64756\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64756\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/765-db-550x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/765-db-550x358.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/765-db-768x499.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/765-db.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, 3rd August 1980<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heaton Park is again the location as we continue to see some photos of Manchester 765 in the early days of the preserved tramway in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64755"}],"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=64755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64757,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64755\/revisions\/64757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}