{"id":58974,"date":"2025-06-28T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58974"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:42:04","slug":"in-pictures-metrolink-3133-returns-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58974","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Metrolink 3133 returns to service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the scheme of lengthy periods out of service on Manchester Metrolink a year isn\u2019t a long time (when you compare it with the six years of <strong>3027<\/strong> when it returned to action earlier this year!) but mid-June has seen another tram return to use with <strong>3133<\/strong> re-commissioned for service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The exact date that <strong>3133<\/strong> was last used isn\u2019t recorded but it is thought to be around mid-April 2024. After recent work to get it back into service it went through the usual testing process before being handed over to traffic again.<\/p>\n<p>This saw it used for the first time in around 14 months on Monday 16<sup>th<\/sup> June 2025 and it has seen regular use since.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58975\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3133-rh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58975\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58975\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3133-rh-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3133-rh-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3133-rh-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3133-rh.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3133 working solo on a service to East Didsbury is seen at Cornbrook. This was a few days after its first passenger use in approximately 14 months. (Photograph by Reece Hughes, 20th June 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the scheme of lengthy periods out of service on Manchester Metrolink a year isn\u2019t a long time (when you compare it with the six years of 3027 when it returned to action earlier this year!) but mid-June has seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=58974\">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\/58974"}],"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=58974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58976,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58974\/revisions\/58976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}