{"id":1165,"date":"2025-06-09T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/?page_id=1165"},"modified":"2025-06-09T08:06:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T08:06:33","slug":"railwayana-msja-railway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/railwayana-msja-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"MSJ&amp;AR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Opened fully in 1849, the MSJ&amp;AR ran between Manchester (Oxford Road and London Road\/Piccadilly) and Altrincham. Soon after openening it became jointly owned by the LNWR an the MSLR (later the GCR). At the grouping in 1923 it became a joint LNER and LMS operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line was electrified in 1930, and in 1992 the Altrincham part became part of the Manchester tram network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MSJAR-bridge-plate.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"672\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MSJAR-bridge-plate-1024x672.jpg\" alt=\"MSJ&amp;AR bridge plate\" class=\"wp-image-1162\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MSJAR-bridge-plate-1024x672.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MSJAR-bridge-plate-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MSJAR-bridge-plate-768x504.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MSJAR-bridge-plate.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MSJ&#038;AR bridge plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester, South Junction and Altrincham Railway Opened fully in 1849, the MSJ&amp;AR ran between Manchester (Oxford Road and London Road\/Piccadilly) and Altrincham. Soon after openening it became jointly owned by the LNWR an the MSLR (later the GCR). At the grouping in 1923 it became a joint LNER and LMS operation. The line was electrified &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/railwayana-msja-railway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MSJ&amp;AR<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1165","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1165\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialmuseum.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}