{"id":45973,"date":"2022-08-05T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45973"},"modified":"2022-08-05T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T19:18:33","slug":"metrolink-3145-sneaks-in-to-manchester-and-3144-enters-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45973","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3145 sneaks in to Manchester and 3144 enters service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink M5000 <strong>3145<\/strong> has arrived at Queens Road Depot \u2013 although it managed to sneak in almost unnoticed arriving later than usual. It made the usual journey across from mainland Europe via Hull Docks with it arriving either late on Saturday 30<sup>th<\/sup> July or early on Sunday 31<sup>st<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The delivery of <strong>3145<\/strong> means that there are now just two further of this order to arrive (<strong>3146<\/strong> and <strong>3147<\/strong>) and with no more orders in the pipeline could it be that there are only two more M5000s to ever arrive in Manchester?<\/p>\n<p>The previous tram to arrive \u2013 <strong>3144<\/strong> \u2013 has also entered service. It was first noted in service on Thursday 4th August when it was running on the Bury route &#8211; this was believed to be its first workings since commisioning and mileage accumulation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_45985\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=45985\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45985\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-45985\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-45985\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3144-pg-550x445.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3144-pg-550x445.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3144-pg-1024x828.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3144-pg-768x621.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/3144-pg.jpg 1281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-45985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3144 at Victoria. It is only running as far as Crumpsall because of investigation work in Whitefield tunnel. (Photograph by Paul Gilbert, 4th August 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink M5000 3145 has arrived at Queens Road Depot \u2013 although it managed to sneak in almost unnoticed arriving later than usual. It made the usual journey across from mainland Europe via Hull Docks with it arriving either late &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=45973\">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\/45973"}],"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=45973"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45986,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45973\/revisions\/45986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}