{"id":51981,"date":"2023-12-15T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51981"},"modified":"2023-12-10T11:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T11:27:50","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=51981","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d coming from Manchester Metrolink.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are again in the summer of 1994 for this photo which almost certainly features T68 <strong>1009<\/strong> which was carrying the name \u201cCo-Operative Insurance\u201d. Its just curving on to the carriageway of Mosley Street with a service for Altrincham with the variable height single direction platform of Mosley Street in the background. This stop was finally closed in 2013 (it was only ever served by trams heading towards Altrincham and not from) and today it has been replaced by an electronic destination display advising would be passengers whether they should go to Piccadilly Gardens or Market Street for their next tram to Altrincham.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1009<\/strong> is another of the T68s to have been scrapped. Delivered to Manchester on 12<sup>th<\/sup> January 1992, it entered service on day one (6<sup>th<\/sup> April 1992) and remained in service until withdrawal on 17<sup>th<\/sup> December 2013. After storage it was transported to Rotherham for scrapping on 17<sup>th<\/sup> September 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_51982\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=51982\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-51982\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51982\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51982\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1009-db-550x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1009-db-550x330.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1009-db-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1009-db-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1009-db.jpg 1284w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-51982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, Summer 1994<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d coming from 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\/51981"}],"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=51981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51983,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51981\/revisions\/51983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}