Manchester Metrolink M5000 3061 has become the latest tram on the network to carry advertising vinyls with a new design applied for Allied World. This marks a return to advertising for the tram having lost its last wrap in December 2024.
The advert is a “two ended” design with one half of the trams having a red background and the other being black. It’s a very simple advert with just the Allied World logo ad name on the main bodyside with further writing on the angled section of the tram before the roof. Allied World are an insurance company,
3061 was seen for the first time carrying this advert on Thursday 10th April 2025 and it’s the eighth different ad to have been carried on the tram:
Babyliss – September-October 2019
GetOnBoard – October-December 2022
Pegasus Airlines – May-November 2023
Rochdale Town Hall – February-May 2024
Rockstar energy drink – June-August 2024
4th Arq – September-November 2024
Asos – November-December 2024
3061 (as the back unit of a double) arrives at St Peter’s Square. This shows the black half of the tram.
And we then see the other half of the tram as it continues its approach to the stop. (Both Photographs by Michael Morton, 15th April 2025)