{"id":2289,"date":"2012-11-10T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2012-11-10T19:59:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T19:59:03","slug":"new-name-for-metrolink-t68-1024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"New name for Metrolink T68 1024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink T68 <strong>1024<\/strong> has been named <em>Jeff Jardine<\/em>, to mark the retirement of\u00a0 one of Metrolink\u2019s long serving controllers. Jeff had been with Metrolink since January 1992 \u2013 before the line had opened to the public \u2013 and has been in the Control Room for many years with the naming being carried out as a surprise on his last day at work. This is the first naming of a T68 since the Vans sponsorship two years ago.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2290\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=2290\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2290\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2290\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2290\" title=\"1024-ac\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1024-ac-412x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1024-ac-412x550.jpg 412w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1024-ac-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/1024-ac.jpg 958w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of 1024 in the workshop at Queens Road showing its new name stickers. (Photo: Andy Coward)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink T68 1024 has been named Jeff Jardine, to mark the retirement of\u00a0 one of Metrolink\u2019s long serving controllers. Jeff had been with Metrolink since January 1992 \u2013 before the line had opened to the public \u2013 and has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=2289\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289"}],"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=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}