{"id":25663,"date":"2019-08-11T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25663"},"modified":"2019-08-11T08:46:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T07:46:52","slug":"in-pictures-the-old-order-at-trafford-depot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25663","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: The old order at Trafford Depot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may be recalled that back in 2014 when the majority of Manchester Metrolink\u2019s T68 and T68A trams departed the area for either scrapping or storage and possible testing at Long Marston there were a handful which didn\u2019t make the trip. Of these <strong>1007<\/strong> is being preserved by the Manchester Transport Museum Society and is stored inside at Trafford Depot but that still leaves <strong>1020<\/strong>, <strong>1023<\/strong> and <strong>2001<\/strong> which remain stored in the main yard at Trafford with no obvious reason why they are still on Manchester Metrolink property. Anyone who catches a tram past the depot onto the East Didsbury\/Manchester Airport line will be able to get a look at these trams as seen in the below images.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25664\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25664\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-25664\" title=\"1.t68-kc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.t68-kc-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.t68-kc-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.t68-kc-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1.t68-kc.jpg 1253w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25665\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=25665\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25665\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25665\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-25665\" title=\"2.t68-kc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2.t68-kc-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2.t68-kc-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2.t68-kc-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/2.t68-kc.jpg 1220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Led by 1023 the three T68\/T68As are on the same road in the depot yard as seen here. The pantograph seen is on a M5000 stabled behind the trams. (Both Photographs by Keith Chadbourne, 18th January 2019)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be recalled that back in 2014 when the majority of Manchester Metrolink\u2019s T68 and T68A trams departed the area for either scrapping or storage and possible testing at Long Marston there were a handful which didn\u2019t make the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=25663\">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\/25663"}],"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=25663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29235,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25663\/revisions\/29235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}