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bluegoblin7
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1007 is owned by the Manchester Transport Museum Society (MTMS) and I believe an appeal is due to be announced soon to raise funds for a depot for it at Heaton Park.
1020 and 1023 were initially retained for departmental use, although these plans didn't come to fruition. I believe they remain operable, at least around the depot.
2001 was retained as it had a lot of money spent on it only a couple of years before withdrawal to return it to service, before it was decided to settle on a full fleet of M5000s. This included a complete rewire by Bombardier to cure a long term bug.
1020 and 1023 were initially retained for departmental use, although these plans didn't come to fruition. I believe they remain operable, at least around the depot.
2001 was retained as it had a lot of money spent on it only a couple of years before withdrawal to return it to service, before it was decided to settle on a full fleet of M5000s. This included a complete rewire by Bombardier to cure a long term bug.
WatcherZero
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1003 was used for fire service training at their training centre in Bury a couple of weeks ago. Its been the training simulator for the Fire Service for about 5 years now.
http://www.britishtramsonline.co.uk/news/?attachment_id=26075
http://www.britishtramsonline.co.uk/news/?attachment_id=26075
1007 is in the shed at Trafford. The others are outside and are very much dead.
Xenophon PCDGS
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Five months have now elapsed since the last posting and there are still three T68s at Trafford depot on the same storage line.
Well, they’re all still dead.
pieguyrob
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There are a couple stored at Long Marston.
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