{"id":8492,"date":"2014-08-02T18:13:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T17:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2014-08-02T18:13:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-02T17:13:43","slug":"in-pictures-manchester-metrolink-airport-line-daytime-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=8492","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Manchester Metrolink Airport line daytime testing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Further testing has taken place on the Manchester Metrolink Airport extension between St Werburgh\u2019s Road (where the line leaves the South Manchester line) and Sale Water Park. Unlike the first period of testing this took place during daylight hours on Sunday 27th July with some further testing then taking place on Wednesday 30th July when the LRVs got just beyond Northern Moor stop. Photos are provided by Steve Hyde and Steve Kemp and further images will be added to a gallery in due course.<\/p>\n

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Looking east over the new viaduct over the River Mersey as 3026 leads 3033 on the way back to St Werburgh's Road. (Photo: Steve Hyde)<\/p><\/div>\n

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3070 heads to Sale Water Park. (Photo: Steve Hyde)<\/p><\/div>\n

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3079 heads towards Sale Water Park. (Photo: Steve Hyde)<\/p><\/div>\n

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3075 comes off the viaduct during testing on 27th July. (Photo: Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n

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3066+3075 are seen here on the night of 29th\/30th July next to the M60 junction 6 during further testing. (Photo: Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n

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3066 and 3075 rest at Moor Road after another night of testing. (Photo: Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Further testing has taken place on the Manchester Metrolink Airport extension between St Werburgh\u2019s Road (where the line leaves the South Manchester line) and Sale Water Park. Unlike the first period of testing this took place during daylight hours on … Continue reading →<\/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\/8492"}],"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=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8501,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/8501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}