{"id":44712,"date":"2022-04-22T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T19:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44712"},"modified":"2022-04-22T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:45:09","slug":"metrolink-3138-into-service-as-3030-receives-a-new-advert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44712","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3138 into service as 3030 receives a new advert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been another couple of changes in the Manchester Metrolink operating fleet recently with another tram entering service as the first new vinyl wrap of 2022 has also been revealed. The trams involved in this update are <strong>3138<\/strong> and <strong>3030<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Starting off with the entry into service and <strong>3138<\/strong> was first noted running in service on the East Didsbury route on Thursday 21<sup>st<\/sup> April. Delivered to Manchester on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> April, <strong>3138<\/strong> marks a return to a quick gap between delivery and commissioning with the being the quickest since <strong>3133<\/strong> which also took 18 days to carry its first passengers in November 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3138<\/strong>\u2019s entry into service means there is just one new tram in Manchester which is still being commissioned. That is <strong>3139<\/strong> which arrived on 11<sup>th<\/sup> April.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong>3030<\/strong> has received a new advertising livery for Pension Bee. The advert has a yellow base colour (although a slightly darker yellow than the normal Metrolink livery) and features some vinyls covering the windows. This is <strong>3030<\/strong>\u2019s second vinyl wrap with it having previously advertised Capital FM between June 2018 and February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The last new advert applied was in December 2021 and was on <strong>3115<\/strong> which advertised Netflix film Robin Robin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been another couple of changes in the Manchester Metrolink operating fleet recently with another tram entering service as the first new vinyl wrap of 2022 has also been revealed. The trams involved in this update are 3138 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=44712\">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\/44712"}],"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=44712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44713,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44712\/revisions\/44713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}