26 May 2014 a farewell tour was operated by 1007 and 1016, the former being the first tram to run through the city streets when it opened in 1992. Preservation and further use The Manchester Transport Museum Society owns T-68s 1007 and 1023. The former was chosen as it was the first tram to run through Manchester city centre on the system's opening on 27 April 1992 and is destined for the Heaton Park Tramway. 1007 was the number carried by the tram that operated the final Manchester Corporation Tramways service in 1949. In March 2020, 1023 was moved for display at Crewe Heritage Centre until it could be accommodated at Heaton Park. while 1007 resides in undercover storage at Trafford depot. Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service purchased 1003 for use as a training rig at its training facility in Bury. Four (1016, 1022, 1024 & 1026) were transferred to the tram test centre at Long Marston. A single car prototype bodyshell numbered 1000 was built in Italy in 1990 and delivered to Manchester for public exhibition to promote the system. It is now preserved and displayed at the Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester. In popular culture In December 2010, T-68 1015 was used in the 50th anniversary live episode of the television programme Coronation Street, of the show to portray a tram crash on the street. As well as a mock-up tram for scenes after the crash, real life T-68 1015 was also used, numbered as 1030 and temporarily vinyl wrapped in the new yellow and grey livery. Trams 1019 and 2001 appeared in the 2001 comedy drama The Parole Officer starring Steve Coogan but the lengthy scene featuring 1019 was eventually cut. Tram 2003 appeared in Peter Kays Car Share. Accidents and Incidents On 12 August 1996, 1006 was involved in a collision with a HGV which had gone through a red traffic light on Corporation Street, near Victoria station. The force of the impact derailed the B car of the tram but there were no serious injuries to the driver nor passengers. The damaged carriage was repaired at Metro-Cammell Works in Washwood Heath, with the tram returning to service just over four months later, on 16 December 1996. On 10 November 2005, the pantograph of vehicle 1022 detached while in service. Investigations found that a brick, which had been thrown at the tram from a bridge