{"id":17137,"date":"2017-04-15T20:29:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-15T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17137"},"modified":"2017-04-15T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-15T19:29:57","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1013-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=17137","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to the archives again today for the latest edition of Picture in Time and we are in 1992 for some early images of Manchester Metrolink with the subject being T68 <strong>1013<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>1013<\/strong> was built at Firema\u2019s Cittadella Works with the tram being delivered to Manchester on 30th January 1992 before it entered service on 6th April of the same year. By the time these photos were taken on 27th April <strong>1013<\/strong> had already suffered a derailment (at Victoria during testing) and it was also to suffer a minor derailment at Queens Road Depot in February 2007. It became the 23rd of the trams to be withdrawn from service when it was taken out of use on 2nd December 2013. It lingered in Manchester until September of the following year when it took the familiar route out of town on the back of a low loader for scrapping in Rotherham.<\/p>\n<p>In this first view on 27th April we see <strong>1013<\/strong> arriving at St Peter\u2019s Square with a service for Bury.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17138\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17138\" title=\"1.1013-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.1013-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.1013-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.1013-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.1013-rog.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>And then later on the same day we catch up with <strong>1013<\/strong> as it heads through the future site of Shudehill tramstop again heading to Bury.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17139\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=17139\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17139\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17139\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17139\" title=\"2.1013-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.1013-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.1013-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.1013-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.1013-rog.jpg 1259w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both Photographs by Ralph Oakes-Garnett<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to the archives again today for the latest edition of Picture in Time and we are in 1992 for some early images of Manchester Metrolink with the subject being T68 1013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137"}],"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=17137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17141,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17137\/revisions\/17141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}