{"id":9583,"date":"2014-11-01T21:01:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9583"},"modified":"2014-11-01T21:01:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:01:32","slug":"metrolink-1021-goes-for-scrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9583","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 1021 goes for scrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another week and another Manchester Metrolink T68 heads off for scrapping. This time the scrapping victim is <strong>1021<\/strong> which made the journey from Trafford Depot to Booths in Rotherham on Wednesday 29th October, leaving just two T68s and four of the T68A sub class in Manchester waiting to make their own trips for scrapping.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>1021<\/strong> was delivered to Manchester on 5th March 1992 and entered service on 27th April 1992. Over the next 21 and a half years it was mainly just a regular member of the T68 fleet but it was the last of the vehicles to carry the unmodified original livery when it became the penultimate LRV to take the trip to Wolverton for floor refurbishment and articulation repairs. <strong>1021<\/strong> was officially withdrawn from service on 6th November 2013 and was then fitted with the specially modified pantograph for ice-breaking duties. Alas due to reliability problems it was not used a great deal for this purpose and on 21st January 2014 it was officially withdrawn from all duties and the pantograph was transferred onto 1023.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining vehicles at Trafford Depot now are T68s <strong>1020<\/strong> and <strong>1023<\/strong> and T68As <strong>2001<\/strong>, <strong>2002<\/strong>, <strong>2003<\/strong> and <strong>2006<\/strong>. Two further T68s remain on Metrolink property with <strong>1003<\/strong> now at Queens Road Depot for continued storage on behalf of the Greater Manchester Fire Service whilst preserved <strong>1007<\/strong> remains at Trafford Depot ahead of its eventual move to the Heaton Park Tramway.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9584\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=9584\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9584\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9584\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9584\" title=\"1021news\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1021news-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1021news-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1021news-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1021news.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9584\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1021 disappears up onto the Deansgate viaduct with a service to Eccles on 3rd May 2011. (Photo: Gareth Prior)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week and another Manchester Metrolink T68 heads off for scrapping. This time the scrapping victim is 1021 which made the journey from Trafford Depot to Booths in Rotherham on Wednesday 29th October, leaving just two T68s and four of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9583\">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\/9583"}],"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=9583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9586,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9583\/revisions\/9586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}