{"id":18872,"date":"2017-10-07T18:33:49","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18872"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T11:36:56","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1023-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=18872","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another trip to Manchester for this instalment of Picture in Time with T68 <strong>1023<\/strong> the tram to featured.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->As with most of the T68s we have featured <strong>1023<\/strong> before in this series so there is no need to go into an in depth history again but just for completeness the tram was built at Firema\u2019s Casertane Works in Italy arriving in Manchester on 18th March 1992, entering service on 11th May 1992 before being withdrawn from service on 21st January 2014. It is one of three T68s to remain stored at Trafford Depot today.<\/p>\n<p>This photo shows <strong>1023<\/strong> at the original St Peter\u2019s Square stop arriving on 6th September 1993 with an Altrincham to Bury service as a dog watches on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38003\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=38003\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38003\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38003\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1023-rog-550x362.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1023-rog-550x362.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1023-rog-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1023-rog-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1023-rog.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ralph Oakes-Garnett<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another trip to Manchester for this instalment of Picture in Time with T68 1023 the tram to featured.<\/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\/18872"}],"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=18872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38004,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18872\/revisions\/38004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}