{"id":41990,"date":"2021-10-19T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41990"},"modified":"2021-10-19T15:17:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T14:17:20","slug":"metrolink-3132-delivered-to-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41990","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3132 delivered to Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another three weeks has passed since the previous delivery at Manchester Metrolink\u2019s Queens Road Depot and so that meant that on Saturday 16<sup>th<\/sup> October it was time once more for a lorry to arrive from Bombardier. This time the tram making its first appearance in Manchester was <strong>3132<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With <strong>3132<\/strong> being the 132<sup>nd<\/sup> M5000 to be delivered, and the 12<sup>th<\/sup> in this batch, there isn\u2019t much more we can say about its arrival (and we still have another 15 to write about!) except to say it arrived in the standard lunchtime slot on a Saturday and was soon unloaded to allow the full commissioning process to get underway.<\/p>\n<p>Of this new batch of M5000s \u2013 which will eventually total 27 \u2013 <strong>3121<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>3130<\/strong> have carried passengers so far with <strong>3131<\/strong> still undergoing commissioning and is now joined by <strong>3132<\/strong> to go through this process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another three weeks has passed since the previous delivery at Manchester Metrolink\u2019s Queens Road Depot and so that meant that on Saturday 16th October it was time once more for a lorry to arrive from Bombardier. This time the tram &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41990\">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\/41990"}],"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=41990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41991,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41990\/revisions\/41991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}