When we look at trams “15 Years Apart” in this series it isn’t often that a modern tram carries two different advert liveries in the two images but that’s exactly what the subject of today’s edition has.
Stagecoach Supertram 116 is just another of the 25 strong Siemens-Duewag built trams which were ordered for the opening of the system and started to enter service from 1994 but it has also seen a number of different adverts carried on its body. On 9th June 2006 at Attercliffe we see the tram in an advert for Meadowhall Shopping Centre – this was the second design for the shopping complex that 116 had carried and would remain in place until early 2009.
15 years later – and four adverts later! – and we see 116 just arriving at Cathedral when working on the Purple route. The advert now carried is for XPO Logistics which has been in place since April 2019. The date of this 2021 image is 10th September.
Both Photographs by Gareth Prior