We head back 21 years to 1995 for today’s edition of Picture in Time with a view of the very first of the T68s constructed for Manchester Metrolink – 1001.
As 1001 has previously featured in this series we don’t need to go into its full history again but suffice to say it was delivered to Manchester on 29th August 1991 and its major claim to fame throughout its life was when it became the very first LRV to run on the streets of the UK as part of a gauging run in Manchester City Centre on 15th September 1991. The end came for the tram on 7th August 2012 when it was withdrawn from service and it then left for scrapping on 15th April 2014.
This view shows 1001 at an unidentified station on the first phase of Metrolink with a service for Piccadilly. The photo was taken on 18th April 1995.
I think the station/stop is Trafford Bar
Methinks the tunnel is too short for Trafford Bar?
I am pretty sure it is Sale Station..
I believe this is the Sale Metrolink station.
Definitely not Trafford Bar – the windows on the building are wrong. My money is on Sale.
Station is definitely Sale 100%
I took that photograph at Sale Station as this was the nearest station to where I lived at the time.
The photo is taken from the O/B Sale platform, 1001 being on the I/B, looking through the bridge, the arched retaining wall is Britannia Road. The pitched roof with a ridge is what houses the Lift.
The brick building above the track, use to by the ticket office when the line was under BR.