{"id":52153,"date":"2023-12-29T18:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52153"},"modified":"2023-12-23T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T14:54:37","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=52153","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have time for just one further \u201cPicture in Time\u201d image from Manchester Metrolink in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This photo is taken at St Peters Square \u2013 a stop which bears very little resemblance to this today having been completely rebuilt and now featuring two island platforms to serve both of the city crossings. But in the summer of 1994 this was how it looked with the platforms just having the small hump and the rest requiring the T68s to deploy steps for their use.<\/p>\n<p>We see <strong>1025<\/strong> \u201cChristie Metro Challenger\u201d pulling into the stop on the way to Altrincham as an identified sister car is working the other way to Piccadilly. At this time the stop was firmly named \u201cSt Peters Square\u201d but at some point since it has gained an apostrophe and now carries the name \u201cSt Peter\u2019s Square\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1025<\/strong> delivered 22<sup>nd<\/sup> March 1992, entered service 26<sup>th<\/sup> May 1992, withdrawn 16<sup>th<\/sup> January 2013 and sent for scrapping on 24<sup>th<\/sup> September 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_52154\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=52154\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52154\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52154\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-52154\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1025-db-550x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1025-db-550x363.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1025-db-1024x676.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1025-db-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/1025-db.jpg 1291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, Summer 1994<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have time for just one further \u201cPicture in Time\u201d image from Manchester Metrolink in 1994.<\/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\/52153"}],"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=52153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52155,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52153\/revisions\/52155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}