{"id":42033,"date":"2021-10-21T20:00:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42033"},"modified":"2021-10-21T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T15:24:37","slug":"metrolink-3131-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42033","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3131 enters service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is about the day after we run an article on Manchester Metrolink\u2019s M5000s saying so-and-so hasn\u2019t entered service yet?! We recently reported on the delivery of <strong>3132<\/strong> to Queen\u2019s Road Depot on 16<sup>th<\/sup> October and said at the time how <strong>3131<\/strong> had yet to enter service \u2013 well now it has!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first reports of <strong>3131<\/strong> in service were made on Wednesday 20<sup>th<\/sup> October with the tram being allocated to the Bury to Piccadilly service, working solo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3131<\/strong> had been delivered to Manchester back on 25<sup>th<\/sup> September and since then has undergone the usual process of being commissioned and then going through mileage accumulation. From delivery to entering service has taken a little over three weeks which seems to be a fairly standard timeframe for new trams at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Of the other M5000s which have been delivered of this new batch, <strong>3132<\/strong> remains to be commissioned for service (having only arrived on 16<sup>th<\/sup> October) with all others (<strong>3121<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>3130<\/strong>) having been used in passenger service already.<\/p>\n<p>One other piece of M5000 news not previously reported is the change of advert design for <strong>3075<\/strong>. Advertising The Trafford Centre since July 2021 the tram continues to advertise the same sponsor but during September the vinyls were changed with the Summer Social promotion having now been replaced by vinyls with the slogan \u201cThe Swag is Back\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is about the day after we run an article on Manchester Metrolink\u2019s M5000s saying so-and-so hasn\u2019t entered service yet?! We recently reported on the delivery of 3132 to Queen\u2019s Road Depot on 16th October and said at the time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42033\">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\/42033"}],"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=42033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42034,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42033\/revisions\/42034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}