{"id":58502,"date":"2025-05-23T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58502"},"modified":"2025-05-18T09:32:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T08:32:39","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-t68-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58502","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink T68"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another edition of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d featuring Manchester Metrolink.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time we include a picture of an unidentified T68 as it approaches the G-MEX stop up a viaduct that still looks very new after two years of use. In the background is the trainshed of the former Manchester Central Station, built by the Cheshire Lines Committee and closed in 1969. It reopened in 1986 as G-Mex (Greater Manchester Exhibition and Conference Centre) and is now known simply as Manchester Central, although retains its use as an exhibition\/conference centre.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58503\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/t68-db.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58503\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/t68-db-550x369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/t68-db-550x369.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/t68-db-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/t68-db.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58503\" 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 featuring 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\/58502"}],"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=58502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58504,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58502\/revisions\/58504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}