{"id":6642,"date":"2014-02-25T19:41:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2014-02-25T19:41:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:41:27","slug":"in-pictures-single-line-working-through-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=6642","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Single line working through Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

As extensively reported on British Trams Online due to major improvement works at Victoria, Manchester Metrolink services through this area are being altered for next nine months with single line working only possible through the station area.<\/p>\n

Single line operation commenced on Monday 24th February and saw the revised service in use for the first time. This sees a tram every 12 minutes run between Bury and Altrincham, a shuttle service between Bury and Abraham Moss every 12 minutes and a normal service between Rochdale Railway Station and East Didsbury. The Ashton-under-Lyne line will be served by trams from Eccles whilst services remain in operation from Altrincham to Piccadilly and MediaCityUK to Piccadilly.<\/p>\n

On the first day of the new service some congestion was noted with the revised operation and the photos below \u2013 kindly provided by Ken Walker \u2013 show some of the operations in the vicinity of Victoria on 24th February 2014.<\/p>\n

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3020 and 3012 come off the single line section at Balloon Street in Manchester city centre.<\/p><\/div>\n

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3048 and 3004 use the new crossover at Balloon Street.<\/p><\/div>\n

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3007 and 3036 wait at the traffic lights on High Street as 3006 and 3002 depart Shudehill heading for the city centre.<\/p><\/div>\n

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3007+3036 continue to wait with 3012+3020 already occupying the platform at Shudehill. The third set visible - 3005+3043 - were the cause of the congestion as they had been on the single line section. (All photos: Ken Walker)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As extensively reported on British Trams Online due to major improvement works at Victoria, Manchester Metrolink services through this area are being altered for next nine months with single line working only possible through the station area.<\/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\/6642"}],"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=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6648,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions\/6648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}