{"id":60605,"date":"2025-10-26T14:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60605"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:27:59","slug":"in-pictures-3101-and-3104-back-to-fleet-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60605","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 3101 and 3104 back to fleet livery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a couple more changes to liveries on Manchester Metrolink with both <strong>3101<\/strong> and <strong>3104<\/strong> losing their adverts recently.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first to lose the vinyls was <strong>3104<\/strong> which had been advertising Manchester Airport. This had been applied in August 2025 but as we entered mid-October the vinyls were removed to return the tram to the standard silver and yellow fleet livery (although one where some of its yellow spots have gone white).<\/p>\n<p>This had been the first advert livery that <strong>3104<\/strong> had carried.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by <strong>3101<\/strong> losing its advert for Me+Em. Another first timer for advertising, the fairly plain vinyls had been added to the tram in September 2025 making it another of the fairly short-lived advertising contracts on Metrolink.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60606\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3104-rh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60606\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60606\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3104-rh-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3104-rh-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3104-rh-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3104-rh.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3104 with vinyls removed sits at Deansgate-Castlefield when working a service to The Trafford Centre. 3009 is alongside. (Photograph by Reece Hughes, 21st October 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_60617\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.3101-os.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60617\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60617\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.3101-os-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.3101-os-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.3101-os-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.3101-os.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60617\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The newly stripped 3101 is seen here departing Deansgate-Castlefield.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_60618\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.3061-os.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60618\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60618\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.3061-os-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.3061-os-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.3061-os-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3.3061-os.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another recent tram to have lost its advert (this one for Skechers) has been 3061. Deansgate-Castlefield again for this shot with it the back unit of a double to The Trafford Centre. (Photographs x2 by Oliver Shenton, 25th October 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a couple more changes to liveries on Manchester Metrolink with both 3101 and 3104 losing their adverts recently.<\/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\/60605"}],"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=60605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60619,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60605\/revisions\/60619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}