{"id":5204,"date":"2013-09-20T20:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2013-09-20T20:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T19:10:39","slug":"a-new-life-for-t68-1011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5204","title":{"rendered":"A new life for T68 1011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawn Manchester Metrolink T68 <strong>1011<\/strong> has found a new purpose in life after it was chosen to be part of the Red Bull City Trial taking place in the city centre on Saturday 21<sup>st<\/sup> September. The Red Bull City Trial is a global motorcycle event which sees an elite group of trial riders make their way over a course of huge, specially designed obstacles including <strong>1011<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1011<\/strong> was the second of the T68s to be withdrawn from service on 18<sup>th<\/sup> April 2012 and since that time has been stored firstly at Queens Road and then Trafford depots with component recovery taking place. This component recovery was accelerated at the end of August when all useful components were removed from the tram to prepare it for its new role which will see bikers jumping on and off the roof of the tram. This has included the tram being put into the new Metrolink livery \u2013 becoming the third T68 to receive the Yellow and Silver colours. With all useful components now removed from the tram it is not expected that it will have a particularly bright future once the event finishes.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bull City Trial takes place in Exchange Square, Manchester on Saturday 21<sup>st <\/sup>September. Four rounds take place between 1130 and 1600. More details on the event can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbull.co.uk\/citytrial\">http:\/\/www.redbull.co.uk\/citytrial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Withdrawn Manchester Metrolink T68 1011 has found a new purpose in life after it was chosen to be part of the Red Bull City Trial taking place in the city centre on Saturday 21st September. The Red Bull City Trial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=5204\">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\/5204"}],"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=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}