{"id":48652,"date":"2023-03-10T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T22:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48652"},"modified":"2023-03-10T19:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:05:37","slug":"in-pictures-metrolink-3083-returns-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48652","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Metrolink 3083 returns to service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: gray;\">As you will have noticed from the regular Transport for Greater Manchester committee reports, Manchester Metrolink has been suffering from tram shortage for a while which has included several long-term absentees. But that number has now been reduced by one following the return to action of <strong>3083<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: gray;\"><strong>3083<\/strong> had last run in February 2022 and has been undergoing attention at Trafford Depot in recent months to see it returned to action. The tram was noted powered up outside the depot at the end of the week commencing 27<sup>th<\/sup> February and after testing was returned to service from 4<sup>th<\/sup> March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: gray;\">There remain several other trams out of use long-term (with the longest one out of use being <strong>3027<\/strong> which was last in service in May 2019) with work likely to continue on returning the fleet to as high a number as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48653\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=48653\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48653\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48653\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-48653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3083-bw-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3083-bw-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3083-bw-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3083-bw-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/3083-bw.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3083 is seen at Victoria when working a service to Piccadilly. (Photograph by Ben Worsley, 9th March 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you will have noticed from the regular Transport for Greater Manchester committee reports, Manchester Metrolink has been suffering from tram shortage for a while which has included several long-term absentees. But that number has now been reduced by one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=48652\">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\/48652"}],"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=48652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48654,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48652\/revisions\/48654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}