METROLINK customers will be able to catch the service's hundredth new tram after a launch event at the Old Trafford Metrolink depot.

Staff from Metrolink operator RATP Dev and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) celebrated the milestone on June 26, after a busy two weeks getting the tram for its first run out.

Tram 100 has been kitted out with its full Metrolink livery, including more than 7,000 of the distinctive fade out yellow ‘dots’ and has undergone rigorous final testing before it is commissioned onto the network.

Metrolink is now the largest light rail network in the UK and carries around 86,000 passenger journeys a day.

The brand new vehicle arrived in Greater Manchester on June 13 after a 1,000 mile journey by road and sea from Vienna.

Bombardier and partner Vossloh-Kiepe manufacture the new-style ‘M5000’ yellow and silver trams, the first of which went into service on the Piccadilly to Eccles line on 16 December 2009.