{"id":53961,"date":"2024-06-06T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53961"},"modified":"2024-06-06T18:29:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T17:29:46","slug":"in-pictures-back-to-fleet-livery-for-trams-in-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53961","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Back to fleet livery for trams in Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a lot of 2024 livery changes in Manchester have tended to be new adverts being applied but recently its been the reverse as expired adverts have seen their vinyls ripped off to leave the trams in standard fleet livery once again.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The latest three trams to return to the silver and yellow fleet livery are <strong>3061<\/strong>, <strong>3081<\/strong> and <strong>3118 <\/strong>(although it has since gone back to another advert).<\/p>\n<p><strong>3061<\/strong> had been advertising Rochdale Town Hall since February 2024 which had been its fourth advert whilst <strong>3081<\/strong> was in an ad for Delicia Drench (since March 2024 \u2013 its fifth different ad) and <strong>3118<\/strong> had carrying vinyls for Tommy Hilfiger since April 2024 \u2013 this had been its very first advert.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53962\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1.3061-mm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53962\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53962\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1.3061-mm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1.3061-mm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1.3061-mm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/1.3061-mm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3061 at the head of a double tram running from Piccadilly to Bury is seen in Piccadilly Gardens. The results of removing the vinyls can be clearly seen here.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53963\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2.3081-mm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53963\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2.3081-mm-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2.3081-mm-550x310.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2.3081-mm-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2.3081-mm.jpg 1286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53963\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly returned to fleet livery 3081 is seen here on Cross Street with a service to Rochdale heading along 2CC. The condition of the tram after the removal of the vinyls tends to show why the same trams get advert after advert.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_53964\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3.3118-mm.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53964\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53964\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3.3118-mm-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3.3118-mm-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3.3118-mm-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/3.3118-mm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last of the trams to return to full fleet livery is 3118. This is the tram at Deansgate Castlefield when working on The Trafford Centre route. (All Photographs by Michael Morton, 28th May 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a lot of 2024 livery changes in Manchester have tended to be new adverts being applied but recently its been the reverse as expired adverts have seen their vinyls ripped off to leave the trams in standard fleet livery &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=53961\">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\/53961"}],"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=53961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54085,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53961\/revisions\/54085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}