{"id":64079,"date":"2026-08-11T18:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64079"},"modified":"2026-08-11T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T11:42:17","slug":"metrolink-3120-and-car-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=64079","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3120 and car collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink M5000 <strong>3120<\/strong> \u2013 which was once the highest numbered tram in the fleet, until the 2018 order for 27 more trams \u2013 has been involved in a collision with a car on the Ashton-under-Lyne line.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The collision took place on the afternoon of Friday 7<sup>th<\/sup> August along Droylsden Road between the stops at Droylsden and Audenshaw. Fortunately, no injuries were reported as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident trams on the Ashton-under-Lyne route only ran as far as Etihad Campus with Metrolink tickets being accepted on local Bee Network buses whilst it was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the damage to <strong>3120<\/strong> is not currently known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink M5000 3120 \u2013 which was once the highest numbered tram in the fleet, until the 2018 order for 27 more trams \u2013 has been involved in a collision with a car on the Ashton-under-Lyne line.<\/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\/64079"}],"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=64079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64080,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64079\/revisions\/64080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}