{"id":34168,"date":"2020-06-10T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34168"},"modified":"2020-06-11T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:27:24","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1004-1002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34168","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1004 &#038; 1002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another 1992 image from Manchester Metrolink features in today\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d and this time its before public services had even begun.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This photo was taken on 25th February 1992 and shows two trams at Victoria stop in between testing duties. The main tram we can see is T68 <strong>1004<\/strong> which is at the city end of the usual outbound platform whilst we can also see <strong>1002<\/strong> in the double-length platform. You will note that <strong>1002<\/strong> is named \u201cManchester Arndale Voyager\u201d \u2013 this was the very first tram to be named in Manchester and like so many more to come after this it was merely an extra form of publicity, in this case a food court at the Arndale Centre. The name would remain in situ until September 1996. As for <strong>1004<\/strong> its first name wouldn\u2019t follow until November 1994.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34169\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34169\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34169\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34169\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34169\" title=\"1004+1002-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1004+1002-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1004+1002-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1004+1002-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1004+1002-rog.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ralph Oakes-Garnett<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another 1992 image from Manchester Metrolink features in today\u2019s \u201cPicture in Time\u201d and this time its before public services had even begun.<\/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\/34168"}],"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=34168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34197,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34168\/revisions\/34197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}