{"id":7490,"date":"2014-05-04T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2014-05-04T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T12:16:24","slug":"two-more-m5000s-enter-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7490","title":{"rendered":"Two more M5000s enter service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest two M5000s to be delivered to Manchester Metrolink have now entered service with <strong>3081<\/strong> and <strong>3082<\/strong> both joining the non-ATS\/VRS fitted fleet over the past few days. <strong>3081<\/strong> operated its first passenger services on 29th April being quickly followed into use by <strong>3082<\/strong> on 2nd May, both running on the Eccles to Ashton-under-Lyne service. With these two LRVs having now carried passengers it means there have been 113 different vehicles to have carried passengers on Manchester Metrolink (the 26 T68s, 6 T68As and 81 M5000s). The only M5000 in Manchester not yet to have entered service now is <strong>3062<\/strong> which has been undergoing rebuilding in the Trafford Depot workshops over the past few weeks and has now been spotted in the depot yard powered up although it is not thought it has undergone any test runs as yet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7491\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=7491\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7491\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7491\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7491\" title=\"3081-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/3081-sk-550x412.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/3081-sk-550x412.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/3081-sk-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/3081-sk.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3081 at MediaCityUK on 30th April 2014 - its second day in service. (Photo: Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest two M5000s to be delivered to Manchester Metrolink have now entered service with 3081 and 3082 both joining the non-ATS\/VRS fitted fleet over the past few days. 3081 operated its first passenger services on 29th April being quickly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=7490\">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\/7490"}],"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=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7526,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}