{"id":19474,"date":"2017-11-18T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=19474"},"modified":"2021-02-12T20:11:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T20:11:25","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=19474","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the original T68 trams to be delivered to Manchester is the main feature of this edition of Picture in Time. It is <strong>1026<\/strong> and we catch up with the tram in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>1026<\/strong> was delivered to Manchester on 9th April 1992 and after commissioning and testing entered service on 26th May 1992. It spent time away at Wolverton Works in 2006 for refurbishment but probably its main claim to fame is that (along with <strong>1018<\/strong>) it made a rare foray for a T68 onto the South Manchester Line on 23rd January 2011 when the trams ran as a pair to St Werburgh\u2019s Road on test. It was withdrawn on 2nd December 2013 and had managed to amass the highest mileage of all the T68s. <strong>1026<\/strong> left Manchester on 25th July 2014 but was not destined for the scrapman as it was transferred to Long Marston for further storage on behalf of UK Tram.<\/p>\n<p>This photo shows <strong>1026<\/strong> leaving Victoria through the \u201chole in the wall\u201d on 2nd April 2005 whilst operating a Bury to Piccadilly service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_37781\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=37781\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-37781\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37781\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1026-ts-550x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1026-ts-550x371.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1026-ts-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/1026-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last of the original T68 trams to be delivered to Manchester is the main feature of this edition of Picture in Time. It is 1026 and we catch up with the tram in 2005.<\/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\/19474"}],"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=19474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37782,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19474\/revisions\/37782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}