{"id":7724,"date":"2014-05-28T20:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7724"},"modified":"2014-05-28T20:13:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T19:13:32","slug":"metrolink-t68-1019-says-goodbye-to-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7724","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink T68 1019 says goodbye to Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 21st May the latest Metrolink T68 departed Manchester for scrapping in South Yorkshire when <strong>1019<\/strong> made the now far too familiar journey on the back of a low loader.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>1019<\/strong> was loaded late on Tuesday 20th May but did not actually depart Manchester until the following morning. In departing it becomes the first of the three remaining unmodified T68s to make the one way trip to Rotherham. The unmodified T68s retained wing mirrors and extended unmodified autocouplers amongst other features (the other two unmodified vehicles were <strong>1018<\/strong> and <strong>1020<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>1019<\/strong> last ran in passenger service on 27th September 2012, becoming the 10th to be taken out of service.<\/p>\n<p>It looks as if the next T68 to leave may be <strong>1006<\/strong> which has recently been moved into the workshops for final component recovery although no date has yet been set for its departure.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7725\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=7725\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7725\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7725\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7725\" title=\"1019+1018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1019+1018-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1019+1018-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1019+1018-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/1019+1018.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1019 is seen here in happier times when operating as part of a double unit with 1018. They are seen leaving the viaduct at G-Mex on 3rd May 2011. (Photo: Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 21st May the latest Metrolink T68 departed Manchester for scrapping in South Yorkshire when 1019 made the now far too familiar journey on the back of a low loader.<\/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\/7724"}],"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=7724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7727,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7724\/revisions\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}