{"id":46814,"date":"2022-10-24T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46814"},"modified":"2022-10-24T18:36:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T17:36:16","slug":"in-pictures-3146-and-3147-enter-service-to-bring-an-end-to-the-commissioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46814","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 3146 and 3147 enter service to bring an end to the commissioning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You wait ages for one to enter service and then two do it around the same time! Both of the last two M5000s to be delivered to Manchester Metrolink have now carried their first passengers with <strong>3146<\/strong> and <strong>3147<\/strong> seeing service for the first time over the weekend of 15<sup>th<\/sup> and 16<sup>th<\/sup> October.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These two trams had been delivered during September with <strong>3146<\/strong> arriving at Queens Road Depot on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> September and then followed three weeks later on 24<sup>th<\/sup> September by <strong>3147<\/strong>. Since their arrival they have gone through the usual commissioning process (which lets not forget also includes the vital application of the spots to its livery which don\u2019t get added until the trams are in Manchester!) followed by mileage accumulation. Unusually for recent tram deliveries these seemed to run concurrently and so it was that the two entered service at around about the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst we don\u2019t have an exact entry date for either they had been seen on mileage accumulation on Monday 10<sup>th<\/sup> October and were then noted in service over the weekend of 15<sup>th<\/sup>\/16<sup>th<\/sup> October.<\/p>\n<p>The entry into service of these two means that all 147 of this class \u2013 by far the largest modern tram fleet in the UK \u2013 have now run in service. Starting off with <strong>3001<\/strong> in 2009 (again we don\u2019t have a date for it though but do know it was delivered in the July) it has taken 13 years for all of them to enter service (including a gap of just over four years in 2016-2020).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_46815\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46815\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46815\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46815\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46815\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3146-lp-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3146-lp-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3146-lp-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3146-lp-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/3146-lp.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3146 is coupled to an unidentified partner as it leaves Piccadilly and snakes it way through Piccadilly Place on the way to Deansgate-Castlefield. (Photograph by Luke Putland, 22nd October 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_46828\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=46828\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46828\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46828\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-46828\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2.3147-pg-413x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2.3147-pg-413x550.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2.3147-pg-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2.3147-pg.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-46828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3147 working on the Airport line shortly after entering service. (Photograph by Philip Gay, 23rd October 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You wait ages for one to enter service and then two do it around the same time! 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