{"id":51892,"date":"2023-12-08T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51892"},"modified":"2023-12-03T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T11:33:51","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1002-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51892","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our latest series of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d with another image from the 1990s of Manchester Metrolink.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time around we feature <strong>1002<\/strong> \u2013 carrying the name Manchester Arndale Voyager \u2013 as it heads to Altrincham. Its following Mosley Street along the edge of Piccadilly Gardens and curving in from the right is Bury bound track from Piccadilly Station. Today the 83 bus route runs from Piccadilly Gardens to Oldham Mumps or Sholver and is operated by First. Soon the Bee Network\u2019s yellow livery will give all Greater Manchester\u2019s buses a uniform image just like the once familiar GM buses orange, through this time it will match the trams. Note how many pedestrians there are on and around the tracks showing how watchful tram drivers need to be\u00a0 &#8211; and in 1994 there were no mobile phones or headphones!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1002<\/strong> entered service on 6<sup>th<\/sup> April 1992, was withdrawn on 18<sup>th<\/sup> November 2013 and left Manchester on 19<sup>th<\/sup> September 2014. It was scrapped in Rotherham after its final departure from Metrolink.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51893\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51893\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51893\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51893\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1002-db-550x354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1002-db-550x354.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1002-db-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1002-db-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1002-db.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, Summer 1994<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our latest series of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d with another image from the 1990s of Manchester Metrolink.<\/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\/51892"}],"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=51892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51894,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51892\/revisions\/51894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}