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Gallery 436: Farewell to the Manchester Metrolink T68s

Monday 3rd February 2014 saw the end of an era reached on Manchester Metrolink as the last passenger journeys by a T68 took place when 1007 and 1022 worked as a pair on the Bury-Altrincham direct service. Considering the reason that they were being withdrawn was because of reliability problems it was perhaps inevitable that the end would be accelerated by a failure but that is what happened at Bury with the dreaded compressor fault ending almost 22 years of service for the class in Manchester. To commemorate the end of the T68s (two of the T68As will carry on for now) we bring you a collection of photos of all 26 of the class at work across the Metrolink network. Each LRV is featured at least twice with the majority of the images coming in the last few years of their careers but we are also able to bring you some earlier images. Thanks for the memories T68s!

Photographs in this collection were taken by Norman Broom, David Holt, Steve Hyde, Steve Kemp, Ian Nightingale, Nigel Pennick & Gareth Prior

1000

1001

1001	1001	1001	1001
1002	1002	1002	1002
1002	1002	1002	1003
1003	1004	1004	1005
1005	1005	1006	1006
1006	1007	1007	1007
1007	1008	1008	1009
1009	1010	1010	1011
1011	1011	1012	1012
1013	1013	1014	1014
1014	1014	1014	1015
1015	1016	1016	1016
1017	1017	1017	1018
1018	1019	1019	1020
1020	1020	1021	1021
1022	1022	1023	1023
1024	1024	1024	1025
1025	1026	1026	Unidentified
1001 & 1008	1001 & 1005	1003 & 1004	1007 & 1022

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This page was last updated on Sunday 16th February 2014

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