Poetry, gramophones and dogs: The weird and little-known Metrolink rules that could land you in trouble

Most Metrolink passengers know if you haven't got a ticket you could be in trouble.

Getting caught trying to 'jib' the tram will see you slapped with a hefty £120 fine. But there are also several lesser-known rules that could land you in bother.

Here we take look at some of the Metrolink's more unusual 'conditions of carriage'...

Have you ever heard anyone knocking out a bit of poetry on the tram? No, me neither.

That may or not be because it's an offence to 'recite or perform' on the Metrolink with or without a musical instrument. So that covers football chants, drunken singalongs after a night out and impromptu recitals of 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'.

And if the fella sat next to you is blaring the music out of his earphones that could also fall foul of the rules, which ban the use of 'any gramophone, record player, tape recorder or radio or similar instrument' which creates 'a noise... so loud or continuous or repeated as to give reason for annoyance'.

Folding bikes are allowed on the Metrolink, as long as they are fully folded. But bicycles and tricycles are banned from both the trams and platforms unless they're stored in designated bicycle racks.

However there's no mention of unicycles - so presumably they're fine.

Very pleasingly British this one. Waiting for everyone to get off the tram before getting on is not just Mancunian good manners it's actually written down in the by-laws.

Videos of drunken dare-devils sliding down the metal chute between the escalators on the London Underground are a YouTube genre in their own right. But if you're tempted to try something similar here in Greater Manchester, maybe think again.

The rules are pretty convoluted but they state it's an offence to 'ascend or descend, or