Category Archives: Edinburgh Trams

More than nine years after originally announced, and almost eight since the preliminary hearing, the full Edinburgh Trams Inquiry report has finally been published – and it’s a big one! Coming in at just short of 1000 pages (there is … Continue reading →

A new online system which allows contractors and members of the public to apply for a permit to work alongside the Edinburgh Trams system is celebrating its own milestone following the processing of over a thousand applications since being introduced … Continue reading →

We do like our firsts on British Trams Online and we have another on Edinburgh Trams! Having only earlier this year seen the first vinyl wrap advert on a tram in the Scottish capital and then gradually seen more appear, … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Trams are celebrating their busiest ever month after more than 1.2 million journeys were recorded during the month of August. With the extension to Newhaven now firmly embedded into the city’s public transport offering plus the Festival taking place … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Trams Limited – operator of the Edinburgh Trams system – have been fined £240,000 after admitting a health and safety breach over the death of a pedestrian in 2018. Carlos Correa Palacio, 53, was hit by a tram at … Continue reading →

Services on the Edinburgh Trams network will be revised in the evening and early morning at the start of September to allow essential engineering works to take place. To minimise disruption the works will take place in 12 hour shifts … Continue reading →

Our journey on the newest stretch of open tramway in the UK continues in “Stop by Stop” today – we now reach the third stop of the Trams to Newhaven extension at Port of Leith.

The seemingly never ending application of new adverts in Edinburgh is still showing no signs of abating with 263 the latest to receive a new design. This time the advertiser is Tennent’s Lager – no stranger to advertising on the … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Trams will be running extra services on evenings when there are concerts taking place at the Royal Highland Centre over the next few weeks. These extra trams will be in operation up until midnight and are just the latest … Continue reading →

Last time the Hard Rock Café had an advert on Manchester Metrolink they soon followed it up with one on Edinburgh Trams – and that pattern has continued in 2023 with the Messi Chicken Sandwich promotion now featured on vinyls … Continue reading →

Another week and there is not one but two more new adverts for trams in Edinburgh! Whilst recently we have seen several full vinyl wrap adverts this time it’s a more standard Edinburgh style with the trams now sporting new … Continue reading →