{"id":36646,"date":"2020-12-05T13:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36646"},"modified":"2020-12-04T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T17:15:10","slug":"lockdown-walks-manchester-metrolink-3061-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=36646","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Walks: Manchester Metrolink 3061"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we are again in Manchester and show one of the M5000 trams in action.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It has now been over 11 years since the first M5000 arrived in Manchester with <strong>3001<\/strong> making the journey from Germany and arriving at Queens Road Depot on 13<sup>th<\/sup> July 2009. The order for the first 120 was complete seven years later on 1<sup>st<\/sup> October 2016 with <strong>3120<\/strong> arriving but a further 27 have now started to arrive in the city to add capacity to the network. The example in this photo \u2013 <strong>3061<\/strong> \u2013 turned up in Manchester on 1<sup>st<\/sup> December 2012.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36647\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=36647\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36647\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36647\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3061-kc-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3061-kc-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3061-kc-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3061-kc-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/3061-kc.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3061 is seen here on Hardy Lane as with a service to Manchester Airport. It is about to leave street running as it will shortly cross the River Mersey and head on to Sale Water Park. (Photograph by Keith Chadbourne, 1st November 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of \u201cLockdown Walks\u201d we are again in Manchester and show one of the M5000 trams in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646"}],"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=36646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36648,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36646\/revisions\/36648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}