{"id":20577,"date":"2018-02-10T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20577"},"modified":"2018-03-18T11:42:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T11:42:10","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1001-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=20577","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to Manchester for this image from the archives as Picture in Time lands just over 10 years ago in December 2007.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The tram pictured is the first second generation tram to be built for operation on the UK\u2019s streets, T68 <strong>1001<\/strong>. Having been built by Firema\u2019s Casaralta Works it was delivered to Manchester on 29th August 1991 and was the very first tram to return to the streets of Greater Manchester on 15th September 1991 when it was hauled through the city for gauging trials. It entered service on 6th April 1992 and was withdrawn from action on 7th August 2012. It departed Manchester for the last time on 15th April 2014 and was scrapped soon after at Booths in Rotherham.<\/p>\n<p>In this photo we see <strong>1001<\/strong> \u2013 with small end numbers applied \u2013 departing from Piccadilly Gardens on 9th December 2007. It is operating a Piccadilly to Altrincham service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21244\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=21244\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21244\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21244\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-21244\" title=\"1001-ts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1001-ts-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1001-ts-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1001-ts.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Tony Sullivan<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We head back to Manchester for this image from the archives as Picture in Time lands just over 10 years ago in December 2007.<\/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\/20577"}],"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=20577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21246,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20577\/revisions\/21246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}