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<\/a>We start off in Piccadilly Gardens as we see trams going straight across the delta junction as they run from Market Street to Mosley Street. On 19th July 2013 the older is represented by a pair of T68 trams \u2013 1009 and 1002 which are working a service from Bury to Altrincham direct. Both of these trams wouldn\u2019t have too much longer left and would not see out the year, 1009 being withdrawn on 17th December and 1002 on 18th November 2013. They would then leave within a week of each other for scrapping in September 2014.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The new order is then represented in this photo by 3138 which is going to Manchester Airport. This service would have started back at Victoria. A lot of the surrounding area doesn\u2019t seem to have changed a great deal although if you look above the tram there is a lack of constriction cranes as seen 12 years earlier. This image was captured on 17th March 2025. (Both Photographs by Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cOld(er) and New\u201d moves on to a third (and probably final) system for the next few weeks as we take a look at Manchester Metrolink. The idea of the series remains the same \u2013 we take a look at an … Continue reading