{"id":60728,"date":"2025-11-04T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60728"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:35:54","slug":"in-pictures-metrolink-3132-returns-to-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60728","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Metrolink 3132 returns to service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another medium-term absentee from the operating fleet on Manchester Metrolink is back in use following the return to action of <strong>3132<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3132<\/strong> had been out of service since 29<sup>th<\/sup> April 2025 when it was involved in an overhead rip-down incident at Deansgate-Castlefield. After repairs were completed it came back into use exactly six months later on 29<sup>th<\/sup> October 2025 and has now settled back into operational use.<\/p>\n<p>This still leaves <strong>3005<\/strong>, <strong>3065<\/strong>, <strong>3091<\/strong>, <strong>3127<\/strong> and <strong>3138<\/strong> in the medium\/long term stored group at Queens Road Depot whilst <strong>3053<\/strong> remains in Kilmarnock undergoing repairs. Of these trams <strong>3005<\/strong> has been out of service for over five years having last run in February 2020 with <strong>3053<\/strong> having been involved in an accident at Piccadilly Gardens in October 2024 and the others have been stored following incidents this year.<\/p>\n<p>One tram which we feared may be joining those medium\/long term absentees was <strong>3045<\/strong> following another overhead rip-down incident during October 2025, but those fears were unfounded with it quickly back into service after a replacement panto was fitted.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60729\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3132-rh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60729\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60729\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3132-rh-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3132-rh-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3132-rh-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3132-rh.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3132 at Victoria when working to Shaw &amp; Crompton. (Photograph by Reece Hughes, 3rd November 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another medium-term absentee from the operating fleet on Manchester Metrolink is back in use following the return to action of 3132.<\/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\/60728"}],"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=60728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60730,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60728\/revisions\/60730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}