{"id":10189,"date":"2015-02-01T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T09:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2015-02-01T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T09:59:08","slug":"scenic-t68s-manchester-metrolink-1023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10189","title":{"rendered":"Scenic T68s: Manchester Metrolink 1023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Tuesday (3rd February) will mark the first anniversary of the last run normal passenger runs of Manchester Metrolink\u2019s original fleet of trams \u2013 the T68s. To mark the occasion (and also because I have been having a sort out of emails and photos sent through to us and found some images which haven\u2019t been used!) over the next three days we be bringing you images taken by Lee Stanford of the trams on the Eccles branch, photos which show just how scenic areas of the Manchester Metrolink can be. Our first image features <strong>1023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->New to Manchester on 18th March 1992, <strong>1023<\/strong> didn\u2019t carry its first passengers until 11th May of the same year. Over the next 22 years the tram was used in service on a regular basis with a couple of periods out of service including one following a serious collision with a bus in the city centre. It also managed to reach East Didsbury terminus in September 2013 to undertake testing work in connection with modifications made to axle counters. It ran its final journeys on 21st January 2014 and remains at Trafford Depot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10190\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10190\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10190\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10190\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10190\" title=\"1023-ls\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1023-ls-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1023-ls-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1023-ls-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1023-ls.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo shows 1023 across the water in Salford Quays on 23rd November 2013. (Photo by Lee Stanford)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Tuesday (3rd February) will mark the first anniversary of the last run normal passenger runs of Manchester Metrolink\u2019s original fleet of trams \u2013 the T68s. To mark the occasion (and also because I have been having a sort out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10192,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions\/10192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}