{"id":10657,"date":"2015-03-20T22:21:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T22:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10657"},"modified":"2015-03-20T22:21:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T22:21:21","slug":"3096-arrives-in-manchester-as-3095-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10657","title":{"rendered":"3096 arrives in Manchester as 3095 enters service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink has seen its latest arrival with <strong>3096<\/strong> being delivered to Queens Road Depot on Saturday 14th March. The tram is now undergoing commissioning work and mileage accumulation before it can join its sister M5000s in service which isn\u2019t likely to be too long.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The previous delivery \u2013 <strong>3095<\/strong> \u2013 has now entered service with the vehicle being used for the first time on Thursday 19th March. The tram was used on the Airport line \u2013 as all recent vehicles have been for their first duty \u2013 and has joined the non ATS\/VRS fitted fleet based at Trafford Depot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10658\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=10658\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10658\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10658\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10658\" title=\"3095-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3095-sk-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3095-sk-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3095-sk-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/3095-sk.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3095 heads to Cornbrook on its first day in service on 19th March 2015. (Photo by Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink has seen its latest arrival with 3096 being delivered to Queens Road Depot on Saturday 14th March. The tram is now undergoing commissioning work and mileage accumulation before it can join its sister M5000s in service which isn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=10657\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10660,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10657\/revisions\/10660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}