{"id":41798,"date":"2021-10-04T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41798"},"modified":"2021-10-06T20:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T19:11:02","slug":"in-pictures-metrolink-3130-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41798","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Metrolink 3130 enters service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now just down to one new M5000 to enter service on Manchester Metrolink with <strong>3130<\/strong> entering service at the end of September\/start of October. This is now the tenth of the new batch of trams being built for additional capacity on the network to enter service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3130<\/strong> had been delivered to Manchester on 11<sup>th<\/sup> September and after the usual commissioning and mileage accumulation was cleared for service towards the end of that month. Its not known the exact date that it entered passenger service but it was noted running on 1<sup>st<\/sup> October when it was allocated to the East Didsbury to Rochdale route.<\/p>\n<p>The entry into service of <strong>3130<\/strong> leaves just <strong>3131<\/strong> at the depot being commissioned for service. It only arrived at Queens Road on 25<sup>th<\/sup> September so it is likely to be a few weeks before it also enters service.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41799\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=41799\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-41799\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41799\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41799\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3130-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3130-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3130-gp-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3130-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3130-gp.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a \u201cgrab shot\u201d at Hollinwood we see 3130 departing with a Rochdale Town Centre to East Didsbury service. (Photograph by Gareth Prior, 1st October 2021)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now just down to one new M5000 to enter service on Manchester Metrolink with 3130 entering service at the end of September\/start of October. This is now the tenth of the new batch of trams being built for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41798\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41799,"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\/41798"}],"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=41798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41800,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41798\/revisions\/41800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}