{"id":13330,"date":"2015-12-04T22:04:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T21:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13330"},"modified":"2015-12-04T22:04:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T21:04:33","slug":"in-pictures-christmas-arrives-on-metrolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13330","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Christmas arrives on Metrolink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it is now only three weeks to Christmas (in fact it is exactly three weeks today until the big day!) the decorations are starting to go up across the country and Manchester Metrolink is no different with large window vinyls being added to a number of the M5000s. The vinyls cover all windows along the side of the trams currently decorated and state that \u201cNowhere does Christmas like Greater Manchester\u201d with Father Christmas also putting in appearance. At least eight trams (<strong>3001<\/strong>, <strong>3005<\/strong>, <strong>3042<\/strong>, <strong>3045<\/strong>, <strong>3078<\/strong>, <strong>3088<\/strong>, <strong>3095<\/strong> and <strong>3105<\/strong>) have been fitted with the vinyls so far.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13331\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=13331\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13331\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13331\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13331\" title=\"xmas1-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas1-sk-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas1-sk-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas1-sk-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas1-sk.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3095 pulls away the stop at Cornbrook with its new Christmas adverts in situ.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13332\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?attachment_id=13332\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13332\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13332\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13332\" title=\"xmas2-sk\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas2-sk-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas2-sk-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas2-sk-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/xmas2-sk.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of 3005+3045 at Cornbrook showing the new Christmas adverts, (Both Photographs by Steve Kemp)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it is now only three weeks to Christmas (in fact it is exactly three weeks today until the big day!) the decorations are starting to go up across the country and Manchester Metrolink is no different with large window &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=13330\">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\/13330"}],"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=13330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13334,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13330\/revisions\/13334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}