{"id":59345,"date":"2025-07-20T17:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T16:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=59345"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T09:51:50","slug":"trams-manchester-metrolink-3017-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=59345","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Manchester Metrolink 3017 &#038; train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for another edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d and this time we go to Manchester Victoria to see a tram and train in the same image.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In this image we look from the railway station side of the complex as a tram approaches the tramstop. That tram is <strong>3017<\/strong> which is working an Altrincham to Bury service and its just passing the pedestrian access to the platforms as seen with the bright yellow handrails.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to us is Northern Rail DMU, 195 011 which is waiting at the station for departure with its next service. This DMU was built as part of a batch of trains by CAF in Spain between 2017 and 2022, with the class starting to be introduced into service from 2019.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_59346\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3017train-kj.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59346\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59346\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3017train-kj-550x368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3017train-kj-550x368.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3017train-kj-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/3017train-kj.jpg 1287w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-59346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Ken Jones, 5th March 2025<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for another edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d and this time we go to Manchester Victoria to see a tram and train in the same image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59345"}],"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=59345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59347,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59345\/revisions\/59347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}