{"id":9462,"date":"2014-10-19T22:12:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9462"},"modified":"2014-10-19T22:12:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:12:06","slug":"manchester-765-to-revisit-the-city-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9462","title":{"rendered":"Manchester 765 to revisit the city centre!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from a high profile event to celebrate its 100th anniversary year, <strong>Manchester 765 <\/strong>is set to enjoy another day in the limelight before the year is out. On November 4th, the tram is due to be displayed outside Manchester Town Hall in Albert Square, which will make it the first traditional Manchester tram to appear in the city centre since the closure of the first generation tramway.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>765 <\/strong>is currently having its paintwork touched-up in readiness for its next adventure which will see it leave its normal home at the Heaton Park Tramway for a brief period of static display in the heart of the city where it ploughed its trade a century ago. The tram will be on display on 4th November when the Mayor of Manchester will also be in attendance, and members of the public will be invited to board the tram with older visitors encouraged to share their own memories of the city&#8217;s original tram system. Unlike the recent appearance of <strong>Manchester 173 <\/strong>at Leeds, <strong>765 <\/strong>will not be left on a low loader and instead it will be placed on a short length of temporary track for the duration of the event. It will then be transported back to Heaton Park at the end of the same day, ready to continue its active retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Not only will this special event be a fitting way to conclude the centenary year of this iconic tramcar, but it will also be used as a great way to promote the extension of the Metrolink system which will see trams pass through this location on a more regular basis again in the not too distant future, although naturally they will be nothing like <strong>765<\/strong>! Although it would be impossible for <strong>765<\/strong> to operate on the Metrolink line, this special appearance next to the Town Hall will surely be the next best thing and to return this tram to the city centre for its 100th birthday celebrations should be another great achievement for the Manchester Transport Museum Society when this takes place next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from a high profile event to celebrate its 100th anniversary year, Manchester 765 is set to enjoy another day in the limelight before the year is out. On November 4th, the tram is due to be displayed outside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9462\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9463,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9462\/revisions\/9463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}