{"id":39657,"date":"2021-05-28T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39657"},"modified":"2021-05-29T13:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T12:39:50","slug":"3124-enters-service-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39657","title":{"rendered":"3124 enters service in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t usually take long after new trams are spotted out on mileage accumulation for them to enter service and so it has proven to be the case on Manchester Metrolink again with <strong>3124<\/strong> becoming the 124<sup>th<\/sup> M5000 to carry passengers. The tram was allocated to the Ashton-under-Lyne to Eccles service on Wednesday 26<sup>th<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3124<\/strong> had been delivered to Manchester\u2019s Queens Road Depot on Tuesday 30<sup>th<\/sup> March (the unusual non-Saturday delivery slot!) and was first seen outside of the depot on mileage accumulation on Friday 21<sup>st<\/sup> May. It then ran in service for the first time on Wednesday 26<sup>th<\/sup> May 2021 \u2013 just less than two months since it first arrived in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3125<\/strong> \u2013 which was also out on mileage accumulation on 21<sup>st<\/sup> May \u2013 has yet to have been reported in service but will presumably not be too long in carrying its first passengers. The only other new M5000 in Manchester yet to run in service is <strong>3126<\/strong> which only arrived on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> May. A further 22 trams are due to be delivered over the coming months.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_39709\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=39709\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39709\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39709\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39709\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3124-dm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3124-dm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3124-dm-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3124-dm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/3124-dm.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-39709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3124 is seen standing at Bury as part of a double unit. (Photograph by Dave Martin, 29th May 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t usually take long after new trams are spotted out on mileage accumulation for them to enter service and so it has proven to be the case on Manchester Metrolink again with 3124 becoming the 124th M5000 to carry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=39657\">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\/39657"}],"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=39657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39710,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39657\/revisions\/39710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}