{"id":9567,"date":"2014-11-01T20:46:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2014-11-01T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-01T19:46:54","slug":"in-pictures-non-ats-vehicles-go-to-rochdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9567","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Non ATS vehicles go to Rochdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In another significant development on the Manchester Metrolink network non-ATS fitted vehicles are now able to operate on the Rochdale Railway Station to East Didsbury line following the transfer of the section between Victoria and Queens Road Junction to TMS operation. Previously it was possible for TMS only fitted vehicles to run onto the Rochdale line in an emergency but recent work now means they can run via the Irk Valley Junction during normal operations. This now means that M5000s <strong>3062<\/strong> and above can escape from just running on the Eccles and MediaCityUK services. Steve Kemp provides us with some photos from Sunday 26th October when <strong>3089<\/strong>+<strong>3069<\/strong> and <strong>3072<\/strong>+<strong>3087<\/strong> were in use on the Rochdale-East Didsbury service.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9568\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=9568\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9568\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9568\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9568\" title=\"1.3089+3069-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1.3089+3069-sk-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1.3089+3069-sk-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1.3089+3069-sk-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1.3089+3069-sk.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3089+3069 are seen at East Didsbury.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=9569\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9569\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9569\" title=\"2.3069+3089-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3069+3089-sk-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3069+3089-sk-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3069+3089-sk-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2.3069+3089-sk.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=9570\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9570\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9570\" title=\"3.3089+3069-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/3.3089+3069-sk-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/3.3089+3069-sk-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/3.3089+3069-sk-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/3.3089+3069-sk.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9571\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=9571\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9571\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9571\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9571\" title=\"4.3089+3069-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4.3089+3069-sk-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4.3089+3069-sk-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4.3089+3069-sk-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/4.3089+3069-sk.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three further images of 3069+3069, this time at Rochdale Town Centre. (All Photos: Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another significant development on the Manchester Metrolink network non-ATS fitted vehicles are now able to operate on the Rochdale Railway Station to East Didsbury line following the transfer of the section between Victoria and Queens Road Junction to TMS &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=9567\">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\/9567"}],"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=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9573,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}