M5000 3092 enters service as 3093 arrives in the city

Posted on Saturday 6 December 2014 by Gareth Prior

There has been more movement with the M5000 fleet on Manchester Metrolink fleet with a further example entering service rapidly followed by another delivery. The latest LRV to be used in service was 3092 which first carried passengers on 3rd December operating on the Ashton to Eccles service. As with all recently introduced LRVs this is not fitted with VRS/ATS equipment and so is constricted to the TMS enabled routes. Just a few days after this vehicle entered service than the next example was making the journey from mainland Europe for arrival at Queens Road Depot on 6th December. 3093 is expected to be the final arrival in 2014.

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7 Responses to M5000 3092 enters service as 3093 arrives in the city

  1. Phil Hart says:
    Sunday 7 December 2014 at 20:26

    Just one more to go of the original order for 94 trams. Since then the order has been extended to 120.

  2. tram man says:
    Wednesday 10 December 2014 at 00:29

    I know this might sound like a daft question,but how will they number the vehicles after 3099 has been delivered.Historically they have always numbered the vehicles after the different phases and jumped up by a thousand.Which of course you could say was a bit of kidoligy to make it look as though they had more vehicles than they actually had.
    1000 phase one
    2000 phase two
    3000 phase three
    It will be interesting to see if they just continue numerically,or maybe go to 4000.Apologies if I sound as though I am just waffling on.

    • Paul D says:
      Wednesday 10 December 2014 at 14:32

      3100… why would it be anything else??

    • Richard Ernill says:
      Wednesday 10 December 2014 at 15:58

      From Andrew Coward’s fleet list for Metrolink it would appear that they are expected to go through to 3120 as they are virtually all the same except for changes to the number of seats (still not enough though!), and the triple bits to the vertical grab (holding on for dear life!) poles.

    • Ken Walker says:
      Wednesday 10 December 2014 at 18:40

      As they are all M5000s I would imagine they will just follow on up to 3120. The Eccles trams became 2000’s because they were T68a’s and had different equipment from the original trams, and the M5000s are a completely different breed to the others.

    • roger woodhead says:
      Wednesday 10 December 2014 at 18:58

      3100 -3120 I believe

  3. Erik Ickerbobs says:
    Thursday 11 December 2014 at 18:18

    Me, my mother and my (step) grandfather saw 3093 arrive. An old man who came out of the Irish centre got out of his car, shouted and swore at one of the guards and got back in his car.

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