We are off to Manchester again for this edition of Picture in Time but instead of featuring one of the trams which have operated on Metrolink we go back a little further to 1987 when a key demonstration took place.
In March 1987 there was a Project Light Rail demonstration at Debdale Park which saw the original Docklands Light Railway 11 fitted with a pantograph and used on a disused railway line to show dignitaries in Greater Manchester just what light rail may be able to achieve.
In this photo we see 11 operating a demonstration run complete with pantograph and still in standard DLR colours.
Photograph by Keith Chadbourne