{"id":1038808,"date":"2026-06-20T12:42:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1038808\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:42:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:42:24","slug":"emergency-services-descend-as-man-climbs-onto-roof-of-manchester-tram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1038808\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency services descend as man climbs onto roof of Manchester tram"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trams were stopped and a road was closed off\"A<\/p>\n

A man climbed onto the roof of a tram near Piccadilly(Image: John Dash Media)<\/p>\n

Emergency services descended near Piccadilly station after a man climbed onto the roof of a tram. Officers were called out to Aytoun Street, in Manchester city centre, at 7.53am following reports of a man on a bridge.<\/p>\n

Multiple Greater Manchester Police<\/a> and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service units were seen in attendance. Part of London Road was closed off, close to Piccadilly station.<\/p>\n

Metrolink<\/a> trams were stopped on the Ashton<\/a> line while police worked at the scene. Images from the scene showed a large emergency services presence near Piccadilly Station Approach.<\/p>\n

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A man could be seen on the roof of a Metrolink tram, with police officers nearby. GMP says the incident came to a safe conclusion by 9.30am.<\/p>\n

The man has been detained under the Mental Health Act, GMP says. Normal service has since resumed on the Ashton tram line.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Police and firefighters near Piccadilly Station Approach(Image: John Dash Media)<\/p>\n

A GMP spokesperson said: “We deployed several units along with other emergency services to London Road in Manchester city centre<\/a> at about 8am this morning after reports a man was on a bridge. The incident concluded after about 90 minutes when a man was detained under the Mental Health Act.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trams were stopped and a road was closed off A man climbed onto the roof of a tram…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1038809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,8086,26383,20083,16,15],"class_list":["post-1038808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manchester","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-city-centre","tag-metrolink","tag-piccadilly-train-station","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116782495877132386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}