{"id":45160,"date":"2022-06-04T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45160"},"modified":"2022-06-01T21:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:07:05","slug":"the-end-of-manchester-metrolink-1016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45160","title":{"rendered":"The end of Manchester Metrolink 1016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I know that sometimes we are a little slow to bring you some news stories but this one is probably a new record! <strong>Manchester Metrolink 1016<\/strong> is believed to have been scrapped after suffering damage at its long-term storage facility at Long Marston with it (or at least half of it) seen on a low loader in June 2021 leaving the Warwickshire site.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1016<\/strong> was one of 26 Metrolink T68s built for the opening of the network in 1992, entering service on the first day of operation on 6<sup>th<\/sup> April 1992. It remained in service until being withdrawn on 10<sup>th<\/sup> February 2014. After a short period of storage in Manchester it departed on 21<sup>st<\/sup> August 2014 but whereas many of its sisters left for a one-way trip to the scrapman, <strong>1016<\/strong> was one of the lucky ones as it had been secured by UK Tram with a view to be used for testing. Along with <strong>1022<\/strong>, <strong>1024<\/strong> and <strong>1026<\/strong> it was moved to Long Marston which is where it remained until June 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Although not confirmed its understood that the tram suffered vandalism damage whilst in store and it was deemed not to economically viable to repair it. As a result the tram was moved away for scrapping. However, not much is known as although there is photographic evidence of half of the tram on the back of a lorry in June 2021 that&#8217;s about all we can report on! It is presumed that the other half also departed at the same time but where they went isn&#8217;t known.<\/p>\n<p>Its believed that <strong>1022<\/strong>, <strong>1024<\/strong> and <strong>1026<\/strong> currently remain at Long Marston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I know that sometimes we are a little slow to bring you some news stories but this one is probably a new record! Manchester Metrolink 1016 is believed to have been scrapped after suffering damage at its long-term storage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45160\">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\/45160"}],"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=45160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45191,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45160\/revisions\/45191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}