{"id":61461,"date":"2026-01-05T21:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61461"},"modified":"2026-01-05T12:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:56:32","slug":"metrolink-3003-back-in-fleet-livery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61461","title":{"rendered":"Metrolink 3003 back in fleet livery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manchester Metrolink 3003<\/strong> is the latest tram to see its advertising vinyls removed and return to fleet livery after its short-lived advert was stripped at the end of December 2025.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It was only the end of the first full week of December 2025 that <strong>3003<\/strong> had received an advert for the BRIT Awards but it was clearly a short-term contract as even before Big Ben was warming up in preparation for the new year the vinyls had been removed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3003<\/strong> saw two sets of vinyls during 2025. The first set \u2013 for the Heaton Park Oasis concerts \u2013 was only a partial wrap with much of the fleet livery remaining, but the BRIT vinyls were a full wrap, the trams very first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Metrolink 3003 is the latest tram to see its advertising vinyls removed and return to fleet livery after its short-lived advert was stripped at the end of December 2025.<\/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\/61461"}],"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=61461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61462,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61461\/revisions\/61462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}