{"id":28708,"date":"2019-07-14T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28708"},"modified":"2019-07-14T09:08:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T08:08:28","slug":"happy-10th-birthday-to-the-m5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28708","title":{"rendered":"Happy 10th birthday to the M5000!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13th July 2009 saw the delivery of the first of a new class of trams for Manchester Metrolink with Bombardier built M5000 <strong>3001<\/strong> arriving at Queen\u2019s Road Depot. At this time the M5000s were only been ordered to add to the T68 fleet but this decision was soon changed and they were to become the sole type of tram to operate on the network with 120 examples now in service in the city (and another 27 now on order).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>3001<\/strong> was constructed at Bombardier\u2019s plant in Bautzen, Germany with construction having commenced in 2008. The first 74 of the trams were built with 52 seats (plus four perch seats) and they were all delivered in the base yellow and silver colours of the new house style for Manchester Metrolink (the spots were applied in-house at Queen\u2019s Road as part of the commissioning process).<\/p>\n<p>Back to <strong>3001<\/strong> itself and after it underwent initially commissioning it was used for press photos just two days later on 15th July when it was posed alongside fellow number ones \u2013 <strong>1001<\/strong> and <strong>2001<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now ten years on and 13th July 2019 saw <strong>3001<\/strong> celebrating its birthday allocated to the Altrincham to Piccadilly service. Happy Birthday!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28709\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=28709\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28709\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28709\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28709\" title=\"3001-rh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3001-rh-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3001-rh-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3001-rh-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/3001-rh.jpg 1270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3001 at Deansgate-Castlefield on 13th July bound for Altrincham on the 10th anniversary of its delivery to Manchester. (Photograph by Reece Hughes)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13th July 2009 saw the delivery of the first of a new class of trams for Manchester Metrolink with Bombardier built M5000 3001 arriving at Queen\u2019s Road Depot. At this time the M5000s were only been ordered to add to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=28708\">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\/28708"}],"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=28708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28717,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28708\/revisions\/28717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}