{"id":49559,"date":"2023-05-17T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49559"},"modified":"2023-05-17T12:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T11:49:58","slug":"special-announcements-on-metrolink-for-the-great-manchester-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49559","title":{"rendered":"Special announcements on Metrolink for the Great Manchester Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you head out onto Metrolink over the next few days you may be hearing different voices on the announcements a series of special recordings have been made by Sir Mo Farah and Eilish McColgan ahead of the Great Manchester Run taking place on Sunday 21<sup>st<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sir Mo Farah, four-time Olympic champion, and Eilish McColgan, Commonwealth Games champion, will be making announcements remininding passengers to touch in and out if paying by contactless and making sure people are \u201cgetting on your marks, getting set, \u201cmo!\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The announcements are the latest celebrities to have lent their voices to Metrolink over the years. This has included Professor Brian Cox, Shaun Ryder, Sir Kenneth Branagh and probably the pinnacle Tony the Tiger!<\/p>\n<p>Danny Vaughan, TfGM\u2019s Head of Metrolink, said: \u201cWe\u2019re really excited to celebrate the 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the Great Manchester Run and we can\u2019t wait to welcome people onto the network this weekend. We\u2019re delighted to have Sir Mo Farah and Eilish McColgan making announcements on Metrolink, and I\u2019m sure our passengers will enjoy hearing their voices in the lead-up to what is a brilliant event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the 20<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the Great Manchester Run this year and it will be one of the last races of Sir Mo Farah\u2019s career. Metrolink is an ideal way to get to the event with several stops at the start and finish of the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you head out onto Metrolink over the next few days you may be hearing different voices on the announcements a series of special recordings have been made by Sir Mo Farah and Eilish McColgan ahead of the Great Manchester &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=49559\">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\/49559"}],"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=49559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49560,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49559\/revisions\/49560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}