{"id":40602,"date":"2021-07-21T22:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T21:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40602"},"modified":"2021-07-20T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T19:18:40","slug":"metrolink-3128-arrives-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40602","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3128 arrives in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M5000 no. <strong>3128<\/strong> has now arrived in Manchester after it was delivered to Queens Road Depot in the standard Saturday lunchtime slot on Saturday 17<sup>th<\/sup> July 2021.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3128<\/strong> is the eighth of this batch of 27 M5000s being built by Bombardier and comes just three weeks since the previous tram was delivered (<strong>3127<\/strong> \u2013 26<sup>th<\/sup> June). With the expectation that trams would be arriving every 3-4 weeks this is hopefully a good sign that schedule is now on course to be met. If so we should be on target to see all 27 in Manchester in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Of the eight trams delivered so far <strong>3121<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>3125<\/strong> have already entered service with <strong>3126<\/strong> and <strong>3127<\/strong> still undergoing commissioning, a process which <strong>3128<\/strong> will now also start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M5000 no. 3128 has now arrived in Manchester after it was delivered to Queens Road Depot in the standard Saturday lunchtime slot on Saturday 17th July 2021.<\/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\/40602"}],"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=40602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40603,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40602\/revisions\/40603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}