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Manchester Metrolink Tram loses pantograph

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Metrolink Tram has lost it's pantograph and caused a bit of damage

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-46909195

A Metrolink tram has been damaged after the mechanism which connects it to overhead lines broke free.

Glass on a door shattered when the pantograph, which conducts electricity, fell from its roof near Salford's MediaCityUK at about 12:30 GMT.

No-one was injured, but passengers were evacuated near the Broadway stop, a Transport for Greater Manchester spokesman said.

Services from Cornbrook to Eccles and MediaCityUK were disrupted...
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Fairly dramatic. Doesn't seem to be any damage to the wires. I wonder what's caused that.
 
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