Category Archives: Manchester Metrolink

You may have heard but this summer sees comeback concerts by Oasis at various places across the UK. This will include both Edinburgh and Manchester where trams will play a major role in transporting people to attend the gigs. To … Continue reading →

Most of the time when a tram is chosen to receive an advertising livery it appears pretty random, and then there are times like we’ve just seen on Manchester Metrolink. With franchise cricket tournament The Hundred taking out a contract … Continue reading →

In the scheme of lengthy periods out of service on Manchester Metrolink a year isn’t a long time (when you compare it with the six years of 3027 when it returned to action earlier this year!) but mid-June has seen … Continue reading →

In addition to the ongoing major work taking place in Manchester City Centre, Transport for Greater Manchester have confirmed that there will be emergency works at Deansgate-Castlefield on Sunday 29th June 2025 impacting services going through this stop.

The past few days have seen lots of new adverts appear on the Manchester Metrolink system with no fewer than four trams making their debuts with new vinyls on Monday 23rd June 2025. The latest trams to get adverts are … Continue reading →

Prestwich Arts Festival, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM), Keolis Amey Metrolink (KAM) and the Creative Living Centre (CLC) have joined forces with artists, Oskar with a K and Tracey Cartledge, to showcase a vibrant new mural at Prestwich Metrolink station.

There have been a number of livery changes on Manchester Metrolink again with probably the most significant being the application of this year’s Pride livery on 3002. Elsewhere in Manchester there have been wraps removed on a couple of trams … Continue reading →

Another advert change in Manchester as 3075 is back in yellow and silver with the vinyls for the National Trust Blossom Watch campaign having been removed in early June 2025.

Manchester Metrolink is once again running a revised service with more major investment in improving and maintaining the infrastructure underway in Piccadilly Gardens. This is the start of a lengthy closure between Piccadilly Gardens and Piccadilly Station, which will last … Continue reading →

Two trams which lost their last advertising liveries in Manchester within the past couple of months have rejoined the ranks of trams with adverts after they received new wraps at the start of June 2025. The two trams we are … Continue reading →

Major improvement works on the Manchester Metrolink are set to get underway from Tuesday 3rd June 2025 and last for over two months with the section between Piccadilly Station and Piccadilly Gardens to be closed, leading to changes to the … Continue reading →

There’s another tram running in fleet livery on Manchester Metrolink with 3081 returning to yellow and grey (not forgetting its spots!) during mid-May. It had been carrying a bright red advert for JD Sports since March 2025.

Wednesday 14th May saw Metrolink services running through central Manchester operating a revised service after a collision between a car and a tram at the bottom of the ramp leading to and from Deansgate-Castlefield outside the main entrance to Manchester … Continue reading →