{"id":39632,"date":"2021-05-24T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39632"},"modified":"2021-05-24T17:50:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T16:50:35","slug":"3126-arrives-in-manchester-as-3124-and-3125-start-mileage-accumulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39632","title":{"rendered":"3126 arrives in Manchester as 3124 and 3125 start mileage accumulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been more progress with the new Manchester Metrolink M5000s in recent days with <strong>3126<\/strong> having arrived in Manchester as the previous two arrivals \u2013 <strong>3124<\/strong> and <strong>3125<\/strong> \u2013 have broken cover from Queens Road Depot for start to be made on mileage accumulation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3124<\/strong> and <strong>3125<\/strong> were noted out on the mileage accumulation as a coupled pair between Queens Road and Bury on Friday 21<sup>st<\/sup> May. The two had arrived in Manchester on 30<sup>th<\/sup> March and 17<sup>th<\/sup> April respectively and had been undergoing initial commissioning at Queens Road Depot since then. With this now completed they reached the stage of mileage accumulation which sees them running on the mainline to iron out any faults. This is one of the last steps before they are passed over to the operations department.<\/p>\n<p>Just 24 hours after the previous two had been out on the mainline then the next tram from Bombardier arrived at Queens Road. <strong>3126<\/strong> was delivered in the usual lunchtime slot on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> May (five weeks after <strong>3125<\/strong>\u2019s delivery). It was quickly off-loaded and will now start its own commissioning process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been more progress with the new Manchester Metrolink M5000s in recent days with 3126 having arrived in Manchester as the previous two arrivals \u2013 3124 and 3125 \u2013 have broken cover from Queens Road Depot for start to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39632\">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\/39632"}],"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=39632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39633,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39632\/revisions\/39633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}