{"id":40962,"date":"2021-08-09T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40962"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:11:06","slug":"metrolink-3129-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40962","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3129 arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest new Manchester Metrolink M5000 has arrived with <strong>3129<\/strong> being delivered to Queen\u2019s Road Depot on Saturday 7<sup>th<\/sup> August. This is the ninth of 27 trams in this batch of M5000s being built by Bombardier at their plant in Bautzen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3129<\/strong> once again arrived in the standard lunchtime delivery slot having made the journey across mainland Europe and then via sea to Hull before a final road trip across England to Manchester. As with all deliveries although featuring an external number it has yet to earn its spots and other livery detail with these due to follow as part of the commissioning process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3129<\/strong> now joins <strong>3127<\/strong> and <strong>3128<\/strong> in being commissioned with neither of the previous two arrivals having yet been confirmed as being in service. The last new tram to enter service was <strong>3126<\/strong> which was spotted in action on 13<sup>th<\/sup> July 2021.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40972\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=40972\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40972\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40972\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3129-bw-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3129-bw-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3129-bw-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3129-bw-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/3129-bw.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3129 arrives at Queens Road Depot having made the trip from Germany. (Photograph by Benjamin Worsley, 7th August 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest new Manchester Metrolink M5000 has arrived with 3129 being delivered to Queen\u2019s Road Depot on Saturday 7th August. This is the ninth of 27 trams in this batch of M5000s being built by Bombardier at their plant in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=40962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40972,"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\/40962"}],"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=40962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40973,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40962\/revisions\/40973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}