There are some things which you can predict will happen with a pretty near certainty and over the years of adverts on Edinburgh Trams one of those is the application of a new advert for The Royal Highland Show on one of the trams. This year its another pleasing design with 264 the chosen tram for the ad.
The Royal Highland Show takes place at the Royal Highland Centre which is handily placed close in Ingliston Park and Ride making Edinburgh Trams an ideal way to get to it and also an obvious candidate to carry adverts about it. The 2023 event will be on between 22nd and 25th June.
The advert is in the usual Edinburgh style and the base colour this year is a pleasant sky blue and there are drawings of some of what you can see at the show featuring on the design of it.
There have now been five Royal Highland Show adverts: 261 (2017), 264 (2023), 272 (2019 and 2022), 276 (2018).
264 pokes out of the depot with its new advert at the start of May. (Photograph by Ryan Birchall, 8th May 2023)
The tram is seen in service at West End during disruption on the line.
A close up view of one of the full height advert panels. (Photographs x2 by John Hampton, 18th May 2023)
264 arrives at West End with its new advert in place.
Apparently every day is epic! (Photographs x2 by Roy Calderwood, 18th May 2023)