{"id":229555,"date":"2025-06-04T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=68d44fd634a5fc3e6e937b70191ba352"},"modified":"2025-06-04T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:37:00","slug":"watch-first-electric-train-on-newly-electrified-line-in-greater-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=229555","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: First electric train on newly-electrified line in Greater Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/First-shot-of-an-electric-train-leaving-Wigan-North-Western-and-Bolton-under-electric-power.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"First electric to Bolton leaving Wigan North Western .\/\/ Credit: Network Rail\" style=\"display: block; margin: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 100%;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/First-shot-of-an-electric-train-leaving-Wigan-North-Western-and-Bolton-under-electric-power.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/First-shot-of-an-electric-train-leaving-Wigan-North-Western-and-Bolton-under-electric-power-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/First-shot-of-an-electric-train-leaving-Wigan-North-Western-and-Bolton-under-electric-power-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/First-shot-of-an-electric-train-leaving-Wigan-North-Western-and-Bolton-under-electric-power-750x422.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/First-shot-of-an-electric-train-leaving-Wigan-North-Western-and-Bolton-under-electric-power-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.railadvent.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/First-shot-of-an-electric-train-leaving-Wigan-North-Western-and-Bolton-under-electric-power-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>For the first time since the announcement that the line from Wigan to Bolton in Greater Manchester would be electrified, an electric train has operated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time since the announcement that the line from Wigan to Bolton in Greater Manchester would be electrified, an electric train has operated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4240,2655,4241,4242,4243,106,2466,4142,2309,113,47,6419,2537,2165,4245,4246],"tags":[12406],"class_list":["post-229555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bolton","category-greater-manchester","category-hindley","category-ince","category-lostock","category-manchester","category-manchester-airport","category-manchester-oxford-road","category-network","category-network-rail","category-rail-news","category-salford-crescent","category-signalling","category-video","category-westhoughton","category-wigan","tag-rail-advent"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229556,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229555\/revisions\/229556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}