{"id":7072,"date":"2014-04-05T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T13:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2014-04-05T13:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T13:19:03","slug":"in-pictures-manchester-metrolink-t68a-2003-on-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7072","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Manchester Metrolink T68A 2003 on test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the redevelopment works got underway at Victoria the two remaining T68A LRVs on Manchester Metrolink have been limited in their operation to the Bury-Abraham Moss shuttle service but on Friday 4th April, <strong>2003<\/strong> managed to break this curfew when it was taken on a test trip through the city centre. The vehicle was seen at both Cornbrook and Deansgate-Castlefield and <strong>Steve Kemp<\/strong> was on hand to record this scene.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7073\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=7073\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7073\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7073\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7073\" title=\"2003-1sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-1sk-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-1sk-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-1sk-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-1sk.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2003 at prepares to approach Cornbrook.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_7074\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=7074\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7074\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7074\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7074\" title=\"2003-2sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-2sk-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-2sk-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-2sk-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/2003-2sk.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2003 passes through the inbound platform at Deansgate-Castlefield. (Both Photos: Steve Kemp, 4th April 2014)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the redevelopment works got underway at Victoria the two remaining T68A LRVs on Manchester Metrolink have been limited in their operation to the Bury-Abraham Moss shuttle service but on Friday 4th April, 2003 managed to break this curfew when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7072\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072"}],"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=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7076,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions\/7076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}