{"id":376981,"date":"2026-01-18T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376981\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:17:07","slug":"manchester-live-city-centre-chaos-after-bmw-gets-stuck-on-tracks-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376981\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester LIVE: City centre chaos after BMW gets stuck on tracks | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BMW became stuck on Metrolink tram tracks close to New Islington tram stop in Manchester earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>The incident led to tram services on the Ashton line being suspended &#8220;until further notice&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No trams are currently running between Piccadilly Station and Ashton-under-Lyne.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood the BMW has been abandoned, with occupants seen leaving the vehicle on foot.<\/p>\n<p>Metrolink tickets and passes are being accepted on a number of Bee Network bus services while disruption continues.<\/p>\n<p>Recovery arrangements are under way, with trams expected to resume once the vehicle has been removed and safety checks completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A BMW became stuck on Metrolink tram tracks close to New Islington tram stop in Manchester earlier today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[55835,8790,3846,59,57,58,1768,143400,143399,3774,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-bmw","tag-cities","tag-emergency-news","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-trams","tag-manchester-travel","tag-metrolink","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}