{"id":58716,"date":"2025-06-06T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58716"},"modified":"2025-06-01T08:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:55:21","slug":"picture-in-time-manchester-metrolink-1025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58716","title":{"rendered":"Picture in Time: Manchester Metrolink 1025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have one last picture from the summer of 1994 in Manchester in this latest outing for \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>1025<\/strong> \u2018Christie Metro Challenger\u2019 pauses at G-MEX with an inbound service heading for Bury. The turquoise image of the time is very apparent and the bare two platform station is unrecognisable when compared with today\u2019s three platform Deansgate-Castlefield stop (the renaming took place in 2010) with its yellow look and extensive platform canopies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1025<\/strong> is another tram which is now scrapped. It entered service on 26<sup>th<\/sup> May 1992 before withdrawn came over 20 years later on 16<sup>th<\/sup> January 2013. After storage it would then leave Trafford Depot on the back of a low loader to Rotherham, the date of that move being 24<sup>th<\/sup> September 2014.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58717\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1025-db.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58717\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58717\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1025-db-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1025-db-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1025-db-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1025-db.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Donald Brooks, Summer 1994<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have one last picture from the summer of 1994 in Manchester in this latest outing for \u201cPicture in Time\u201d.<\/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\/58716"}],"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=58716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58718,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58716\/revisions\/58718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}