{"id":54417,"date":"2024-07-06T22:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T21:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54417"},"modified":"2024-07-06T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T16:06:08","slug":"in-pictures-metrolink-3069-is-back-in-fleet-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54417","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Metrolink 3069 is back in fleet livery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent almost four months carrying advertising vinyls for IKEA, Manchester Metrolink M5000 <strong>3069<\/strong> has now returned to fleet livery following the expiry of the contract.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This had only been <strong>3069<\/strong>\u2019s third advert since it originally entered service \u2013 and two of those have been for IKEA! Its first advert had been back between April and September 2018 when it carried vinyls for Slater\u2019s Menswear and then some three years later it was IKEA advert number one which was on the tram between September 2021 and October 2022. Then came another 15 month gap before the red based IKEA advert came along\u00a0 this March, and that is the advert which has now been removed from the tram.<\/p>\n<p>Its often been the case lately that one advert being removed leads to another being stuck on but so far that has not been the case for <strong>3069<\/strong>. But for how long that remains to be so we will have to wait and see!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54418\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3069-rh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54418\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54418\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3069-rh-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3069-rh-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3069-rh-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/3069-rh.jpg 1285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devoid of advertising for the first time since March 2024, 3069 is captured here at Deansgate Castlefield when working a service to MediaCityUK. (Photograph by Reece Hughes, 5th July 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent almost four months carrying advertising vinyls for IKEA, Manchester Metrolink M5000 3069 has now returned to fleet livery following the expiry of the contract.<\/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\/54417"}],"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=54417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54419,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54417\/revisions\/54419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}