{"id":34297,"date":"2020-06-18T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34297"},"modified":"2020-06-18T19:11:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T18:11:27","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1006-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34297","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we are again travelling to Manchester Metrolink for an early image, taken before public services had even begun.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this view we see T68 <strong>1006<\/strong> on 14th January 1992, almost three months before services would begin for the public. The destination blind has been turned to \u201cSpecial\u201d and the driver is in his hi-vis jacket possibly signifying that this is a test run rather than driver training. If you zoom in to this image as well you may be able to make out that all of the seating still has protective plastic sheeting over it. By the time this photo was taken <strong>1006<\/strong> had only been in the UK for a few weeks having been delivered as a late Christmas present on 29th December 1991.<\/p>\n<p>This location is Whitefield as we see the tram in two images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34298\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-34298\" title=\"1.1006-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1.1006-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1.1006-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1.1006-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1.1006-rog.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34299\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34299\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34299\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34299\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34299\" title=\"2.1006-rog\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.1006-rog-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.1006-rog-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.1006-rog-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.1006-rog.jpg 1295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ralph Oakes-Garnett<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d we are again travelling to Manchester Metrolink for an early image, taken 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\/34297"}],"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=34297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34319,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34297\/revisions\/34319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}