{"id":54968,"date":"2024-08-22T22:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T21:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54968"},"modified":"2024-08-21T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:26:34","slug":"in-pictures-kfc-complete-a-hattrick-of-tram-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54968","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: KFC complete a hattrick of tram systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of months we have seen identical adverts for KFC applied to trams on Manchester Metrolink and West Midlands Metro. Whilst those adverts have now gone \u2013 <strong>3047<\/strong> losing its vinyls in Manchester and <strong>58<\/strong> on the West Midlands Metro \u2013 there is a third tramway in the British Isles which does also have an advert for the same company, and that is Dublin\u2019s Luas system.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whereas those adverts on Manchester Metrolink and the West Midlands Metro the design on Luas is different with it mainly being red and promoting the KFC Lunch Meal Deal rather than asking you to \u201cBelieve in Chicken\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The tram which has received the wrap on Luas is <strong>3004<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54969\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3004-kw.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54969\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-54969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3004-kw-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3004-kw-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3004-kw-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/3004-kw.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo shows 3004 complete with its bright red vinyls for KFC. (Photograph by Keith White, 15th August 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past couple of months we have seen identical adverts for KFC applied to trams on Manchester Metrolink and West Midlands Metro. Whilst those adverts have now gone \u2013 3047 losing its vinyls in Manchester and 58 on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54968\">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":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54968"}],"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=54968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54970,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54968\/revisions\/54970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}