{"id":60220,"date":"2025-09-28T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60220"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:32:32","slug":"trams-manchester-metrolink-3105-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60220","title":{"rendered":"Trams &#038;: Manchester Metrolink 3105 &#038; bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we have another edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d? This time the latest system to feature is Manchester Metrolink and it\u2019s a bus again which makes up the &amp;,<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The section of tramway around Harbour City runs alongside the road and so it\u2019s a good place to get more images of trams with other road traffic, such as on this occasion when <strong>3105<\/strong> was at the start of its journey to Etihad Campus. This would have started back at MediaCityUK and its just come across the crossover as it regains double track and is about to call at Harbour City.<\/p>\n<p>As the tram does that we see another splash of yellow as a Bee Network bus comes towards us when working on route 53 bound for Cheetham Hill. The bus is now in the standard yellow colours of the Bee Network and was formally carrying First livery before the yellow revolution came along. Its an Alexander Enviro300.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60221\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3105bus-gp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60221\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60221\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3105bus-gp-550x367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3105bus-gp-550x367.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3105bus-gp-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3105bus-gp.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Gareth Prior, 17th March 2025<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shall we have another edition of \u201cTrams &amp;\u201d? This time the latest system to feature is Manchester Metrolink and it\u2019s a bus again which makes up the &amp;,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,86],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60220"}],"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=60220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60222,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60220\/revisions\/60222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}