{"id":42539,"date":"2021-11-25T20:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42539"},"modified":"2021-11-25T19:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T19:51:40","slug":"metrolink-3133-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42539","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3133 enters service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And then there were none! No M5000s currently in Manchester which have yet to enter service that it is with <strong>3133<\/strong> carrying passengers for the first time on Wednesday 24<sup>th<\/sup> November. The tram was allocated to the Bury to Piccadilly service for its first day of service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It has taken <strong>3133<\/strong> just 18 days from delivery to enter service which is by far the quickest of this new batch of trams to enter service. In fact looking back at delivery dates and dates they entered service it appears the last tram quicker than this to enter service was <strong>3103<\/strong> which arrived on 5<sup>th<\/sup> September 2015 and entered service on 19<sup>th<\/sup> September 2015. Presumably with the Christmas rush of people heading out for shopping (including the Christmas Markets) it was desirable to get <strong>3133<\/strong> into service as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>As thing stand at the moment there are now no M5000s awaiting commissioning but its likely that <strong>3134<\/strong> won\u2019t be long in arriving with it now almost three weeks since <strong>3133<\/strong>\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then there were none! No M5000s currently in Manchester which have yet to enter service that it is with 3133 carrying passengers for the first time on Wednesday 24th November. The tram was allocated to the Bury to Piccadilly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=42539\">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\/42539"}],"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=42539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42540,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42539\/revisions\/42540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}