{"id":62748,"date":"2026-04-24T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62748"},"modified":"2026-04-24T21:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:04:52","slug":"in-pictures-starling-bank-return-with-a-new-advert-on-metrolink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62748","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Starling Bank return with a new advert on Metrolink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starling Bank are one of those businesses who obviously think advertising on Manchester Metrolink works as they have recently returned with a new contract \u2013 the third time they have advertised on the trams. On the previous two occasions it was a two-tram contract but this time seems to be just the one (at least so far) with <strong>3101<\/strong> carrying the advert.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>3101<\/strong> had only just lost its advert for xtb a couple of days earlier before it debuted with its new look on 18<sup>th<\/sup> April 2026. It\u2019s a very simple advert with the bodyside being a light blue colour and just featuring the STARLING name at the end along with the slogan \u201cSmall habits take you a long way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This now becomes the fourth advert on <strong>3101<\/strong>, all of which have been carried since September 2025. That was when it received vinyls for Me+Em, before October 2025 saw it become one of two trams advertising Wicked For Good. Those vinyls were removed in December 2025 and then in February 2026 it was the xtb advert which was added (and then removed April 2026).<\/p>\n<p>Starling Bank have previously advertised on <strong>3081<\/strong>, <strong>3091<\/strong>, <strong>3092<\/strong>, <strong>3102<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_62803\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3101-rh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62803\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62803\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3101-rh-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3101-rh-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3101-rh-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3101-rh.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3101 in its new Starling Bank advert with a service to Ashton. (Photograph by Reece Hughes, 24th April 2026)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starling Bank are one of those businesses who obviously think advertising on Manchester Metrolink works as they have recently returned with a new contract \u2013 the third time they have advertised on the trams. On the previous two occasions it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=62748\">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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62748"}],"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=62748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62804,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62748\/revisions\/62804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}