15 Years Apart: Manchester Metrolink 3002

Posted on Tuesday 2 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

And the third special celebration photo series to feature during December is a returning series – “15 Years Apart”. This series sees two pictures of the same tram in 2010 and 2025 as we see if there have been any differences! The first subject will possibly make us all feel old!

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Numbers 2 – Blackpool & Fleetwood 2

Posted on Tuesday 2 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

2nd December and so that must mean we are going to feature a tram with the number 2!

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In Pictures: Blackpool 014 latest to get a full wrap

Posted on Monday 1 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

As alluded to in our article on Saturday evening, another tram in Blackpool is now carrying a full vinyl wrap advertising livery. This time its 014 – hardly a stranger to adverts having carried an ad for Wednesday earlier this year – which has seen new vinyls added and the sponsor of the tram is Elite Competitions.

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Take the tram to the Old Rep panto and get money off your Metro fare!

Posted on Monday 1 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

West Midlands Metro are once again offering discounted travel to ticketholders of the Birmingham Old Rep 2025/6 pantomime – Cinderella. This is the third year in a row this has been offered with any ticketholder able to get 10% of a Metro day ticket.

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Old and New – Blackpool Tramway: Fisherman’s Walk

Posted on Monday 1 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

We bring you another edition of “Old and New” featuring two photos – one of a heritage tram and one of a modern Flexity2 tram operating in Blackpool at the same location. Today its Fisherman’s Walk.

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Adverts They Wore 2025: South Yorkshire Supertram 115 – Park and Ride

Posted on Monday 1 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

The second of our special photo series which will be running throughout December is “Adverts They Wore 2025”. Advertising liveries seem to split opinion, you either love them or you hate them but they are a major part of the modern tramway scene and still need to be recorded. In this series we will take a look at a selection of adverts which were carried during 2025 (not necessarily applied during that year).

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Numbers: 1 – London County Council 1

Posted on Monday 1 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

As we enter our birthday celebration month – 1st December is the date that British Trams Online was originally launched, and this year marks our 23rd anniversary! – we will be bringing you more content with several photo series running. The first (of three) of these series has a very simple concept – we start at the number 1 and go through sequentially featuring a photo of a tram with that number! Like all of our photo series its just an excuse to use more of the photos in our collection!

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Advent Calendars 2025 – available now!

Posted on Monday 1 December 2025 by Gareth Prior

Our Advent Calendars have now gone live – you know the idea behind an Advent Calendar, each day in the lead up to Christmas you get a treat behind the window! And these give you a photo of a tram captured in 2025!

Once again we have two Advent Calendars:

Heritage Trams

Modern Trams

New images will be uploaded each day for you to take a look at!

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Out and About: Tyne and Wear Metro – New trains in service

Posted on Sunday 30 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

We go “Out and About” once more and this time northeast England is the location.

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Temporary timetable introduced on Supertram

Posted on Sunday 30 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

A temporary timetable has been introduced on South Yorkshire Supertram’s Blue and Yellow routes in a bid to “provide a more reliable service for customers”. The decision to implement this timetable comes at the end of a week which has seen numerous cancelled services with staff shortages the main cause, and also comes after infrastructure problems had led to line closures earlier in the month.

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North-south tramline consultation closes

Posted on Sunday 30 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

The 12-week consultation into plans to extend the Edinburgh Trams from Granton to the Bioquarter via the city centre has now closed. The responses will now be analysed before the results are presented to the Transport and Environment Committee in 2026.

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Get on board Feltham 355 with a new 360-degree virtual tour

Posted on Sunday 30 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

The London Transport Museum have recently launched a new interactive experience on their website which will allow you to explore Metropolitan Feltham 355 inside and out. The tram – housed at the Museum’s Acton Store – has long been “off bounds” so this new experience will allow everyone to see exactly what the tram looks like, along with some history of trams in London and other key information.

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In Pictures: The Heat is On for Blackpool 011

Posted on Saturday 29 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

2025 has definitely been the year of the advert in Blackpool! Following the bringing of advertising in-house there has been a definite up-tick in the number of new adverts, whilst we have also seen a number of expired ads taken off trams. The latest tram to receive a new advert is 011 which has seen the application of an almost full wrap for Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. It is a dual advert with one side advertising Mamma Mia! (which is at the Opera House 28th April to 3rd May 2026) and the other Miss Saigon (playing at the Opera House from 30th June until 4th July 2026).

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Around the World in Trams: Rome 9238 & 9226

Posted on Saturday 29 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

We end November with another “Around the World in Trams” from Rome.

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Trams return to The Point

Posted on Saturday 29 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

Luas services are running between Connolly and The Point again following the completion of the reconstruction of George’s Dock Bridge. Trams retuned to this section of the Red line from the start of service on Friday 28th November, just over three months since they were last able to run.

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What’s New on British Trams Online? 29th November 2025

Posted on Saturday 29 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

And this week the main site update is off to South London:

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Tram of the Year 2025: Nominations now open!

Posted on Saturday 29 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

Whilst it is probably fair to say 2025 has hardly been a classic year for trams across the British Isles, as we reach the end of November it is time to start thinking about the British Trams Online Tram of the Year contest once again! We will again be looking for nominations into five categories: “Tram (Heritage)”, “Tram (Modern)”, “Tramway/Museum”, “Tramway (Modern)” and “Event” of the Year.

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Isle of Man Railways advertise for Electrical/Mechanical Rolling Stock Fitter

Posted on Saturday 29 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

A rare chance to join the team at Isle of Man Railways helping to maintain rolling stock on the Manx Electric Railway has been advertised with an Electrical/Mechanical Rolling Stock Fitter wanted.

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In Pictures: Trams return to Colwyn Bay again!

Posted on Friday 28 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

Article updated 29/11/2025 with addition of additional photo

The Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Tramway Society have taken their pride and joy, tram no. 7, out again with it returning to Colwyn Bay for the Christmas lights switch-on in the North Wales coastal town.

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Manchester Metrolink Emergency Engineering Works: Sunday 30th November 2025

Posted on Friday 28 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

Emergency engineering works on Manchester Metrolink will see no trams running between Piccadilly Gardens and Ashton-under-Lyne on Sunday 30th November 2025.

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