{"id":58594,"date":"2025-05-30T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58594"},"modified":"2025-05-25T08:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T07:53:06","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1006-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58594","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our series of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d from Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1006<\/strong> curves into the G-MEX stop, with a service for Altrincham. In the background cranes are at work modifying the landscape of Lower Mosley Street \u2013 and cranes have become a familiar sight towering over the city ever since as Manchester\u2019s tower blocks rise ever higher.<\/p>\n<p>Having entered service on 6<sup>th<\/sup> April 1992, <strong>1006<\/strong> would we withdrawn from service on 30<sup>th<\/sup> August 2012 and would follow in the footsteps of many of its sisters when, on 13<sup>th<\/sup> June 2014, it left Trafford Depot for Booths in Rotherham where it was scrapped.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58595\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1006-db.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58595\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58595\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1006-db-550x369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1006-db-550x369.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1006-db-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1006-db.jpg 1298w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58595\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, Summer 1994<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We continue our series of \u201cPicture in Time\u201d from Manchester.<\/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\/58594"}],"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=58594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58596,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58594\/revisions\/58596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}