Last year when West Midlands Metro 44 started to advertise the National Trust’s Blossom Watch campaign, Manchester Metrolink 3116 was not far behind it – and now in 2025 something very similar has happened although maybe a slightly longer gap between the vinyls being applied!
As we saw a couple of weeks ago, West Midlands Metro 57 received National Trust vinyls on 21st March 2025 with it entering service the following day. And that has now been followed by Manchester Metrolink 3075 which received nigh on identical vinyls in time to re-enter service on 2nd April 2025, when it was used on the Airport service.
This becomes the ninth different advert to have been carried by 3075, although three of those were the same sponsor with revisions. It was March 2019 that it had its first ad when it received vinyls for The Body Shop, then after a period in fleet livery July 2021 saw it start a two year association with The Trafford Centre (and three different designs). July 2023 saw it become the first Chester Zoo tram and then October 2023 was change time again as it started to advertise Caudalie Skincare. January 2024 was time for another swap with Procore advertising until April 2014. After a gap of a few months there was time for one more advert, Cano Water being advertised August-November 2024.
This now brings us up to 11 trams with adverts of Metrolink, giving plenty of variety of photographs on the network!
3075 is seen through the back cab of 3067 when out on test. (Photograph by Reece Hughes, 4th April 2025)