Every Manchester Metrolink T68 Tram + More 

Same I wish one of them where still operated today

The real reason Manchester got trams is that the government refused to allow a short section of underground railway to be built to link up several suburban railway services via Manchester city centre (the Picc - Vic link). So a surface railway was planned instead.

they were less reliable than the M5000's, yes its a shame that they have gone

I recall the M5000s had quite a lot of NVH when going around bends when I was in Manchester several years ago

Why wasn't I born then!?😠😠

I don't remember riding then!

the trams could not travel with the steps out - I feel sure that there was an interlock to prevent this - what the film does not show is that there was a member of staff here whose duties included pushing the steps in, as required. The fact that someone was needed to do this demonstrates what a serious problem this had become.

@@CitytransportInfoplus Thank you for your reply - that may well be why the idea was abandoned on the newer trams and platforms all altered accordingly.

A few have, see here: (Manchester) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AnsaldoBreda_T-68 (Birmingham) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Midlands_Metro_rolling_stock

I was looking for these, to film with my HD camcorder in 2019

The M5000 trams are a specially adapted version of the K5000

Leeds almost got a Supertram system - the financial plug was pulled at the last minute (by the government / civil servants) and only after the city council had spent £millions as part of the scheme. It was a terrible waste of money - but the fault lay in Whitehall, London, not in Leeds. In the 1980s Bradford was going to have a new trolleybus system but because of bus deregulation and a spoiler bus company wanting to run motor buses in competition with the electric buses the scheme floundered.

@@CitytransportInfoplus I've heard something to similar effect before. In any case, the end result is a public transport "system" in one of the country's most built-up regions that has seen little or no improvements for about 30 years and is arguably less advanced than it was in the 1950s! Travesty. Mind you, London always did keep all the cash for its own infrastructure projects while everyone else got whatever was left over. Not much has changed there! :-/

Ikr there in leave the condition but M5000 are good

It’s mind-boggling how the UK handles it’s fleet of hard workers we like to use in America, our fleet to the best of its ability until they basically falling apart a lot of our stuff from the post and pre-war. Was built to last and it did its job, Budd was one of its leading companies making the R32 while st. Louis produced the R33 and the smee fleet what really put the nail in the coffin is that these trains were built at exactly the same time 1964 precisely and the R 32 got retired in 2018/9 the R33 got retired in 2003 because they were painted aluminum and because of the graffiti craze in the 80s. People don’t know how they clean trains when they clean trains they use acid to basically wash off the paint that basically destroys the metal and the coat.and over the two decades of graffiti, and then on top of the weathering of rain snow it basically killed the fleet these T68 were supposed to retire today not 10 years earlier they still had life and it’s like a ecosystem. Once these cars left stations were closed and just weren’t open again. Same thing with P865 in Los Angeles they look almost similar to these cars and where made in 1990s respectively

its hard to know, especially when there are 80+ of some types of train some people have lists of all the trains and cross them off when they have seen each individual train. I have never done this.

Hello, how do you intend to use it? Normally footage is sold - not just given away.

the footpath across the tracks where trams travelling towards the city centre exit from the platforms at Piccadilly station

@@CitytransportInfoplus okay thanks

I filmed it! I am old enough to have been there when these trams were introduced and over several visits to Manchester lucky enough to have filmed them all.

thats because it is.

lol this kid