1010<\/strong> has now been scrapped with it leaving Manchester Metrolink property on 14th<\/sup> August 2014 for Rotherham where it was reduced to scrap metal. It had run for the last time on 2nd<\/sup> September 2012.<\/p>\n
\u201cPicture in Time\u201d moves to Manchester as we start a series of photos taken in the early days of the Metrolink network.<\/p>\n
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By the time this series of photos were taken, the summer of 1994, the initial Metrolink line had been running for over two years and the dreams of the large network we can now enjoy were still far in the future. Many things have changed on both the tramway and in Manchester itself and over the course of the next few weeks we\u2019ll feature some images which show those changes.<\/p>\n
This first photo shows 1010<\/strong> \u2013 one of the T68s which were built for the opening of Metrolink \u2013 as it takes the Piccadilly track curving from Market Street into Piccadilly Gardens, with Mosley Street to the left. Prominent on the left is William Calder Marshall\u2019s 1853 statue of Robert Peel. Today Superdrug has moved from its 1994 location to rebuilt premises on the site of the Ourprice next door, although the old Superdrug building still stands, now housing branches of McDonald\u2019s and Boots.<\/p>\n 1010<\/strong> has now been scrapped with it leaving Manchester Metrolink property on 14th<\/sup> August 2014 for Rotherham where it was reduced to scrap metal. It had run for the last time on 2nd<\/sup> September 2012.<\/p>\n
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