{"id":34828,"date":"2020-07-22T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34828"},"modified":"2020-07-17T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T18:47:07","slug":"lockdown-walks-manchester-metrolink-3062","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=34828","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3062"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for some more exercise as we go out for another \u201cLockdown Walk\u201d in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tram featured in today\u2019s image is M5000 <strong>3062<\/strong> which was delivered to Manchester on 15th December 2012 but wasn\u2019t to enter service until 5th June 2014. This long gap between arrival and entry into service was because it became a \u201cChristmas Tree\u201d for a time providing spare parts to keep the other members of the fleet running at a time when they weren\u2019t easily available.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34829\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=34829\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34829\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34829\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-34829\" title=\"3062-kc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3062-kc-550x440.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3062-kc-550x440.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3062-kc-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/3062-kc.jpg 1272w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The photo here shows 3062 at the head of a service to Rochdale which has just departed from the stop at Chorlton. (Photograph by Keith Chadbourne, 1st June 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for some more exercise as we go out for another \u201cLockdown Walk\u201d in Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828"}],"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=34828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34831,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34828\/revisions\/34831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}