You wait 17 years for a tram to carry an advert for a movie and then two come within a day! As alluded to in the original article, there are now two trams carrying identical wraps promoting the Wicked: For Good film on the West Midlands Metro with 57 confirmed as the second tram to carry the advertising vinyls. And West Midlands Metro aren’t the only tramway where this is the case (more on that tomorrow!).
57 had been operating back in fleet livery since June 2025 when it lost its vinyls for the National Trust Blossom Watch campaign but has now been chosen to receive the mainly green advert for the second Wicked film. This is the third advert to be carried by 57 as it also previously carried vinyls for PayPal in December 2024 and January 2025. The vinyls for the National Trust were on the tram from March 2025-June 2025.
With 51 also carrying the Wicked: For Good advertising vinyls this is the first time since 2021 that two trams on the West Midlands Metro have been carrying the same advert. That was when 25 and 27 were both advertising OLA up until August 2021. Previous to that both 18 and 21 had advertised Just Eat up until February 2021.
57 is caught on camera here on its first day out carrying the new vinyl wrap for Wicked: For Good. (Photograph by Shiv Patel, 25th October 2025)