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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Picture in Time: Wolverhampton Tramways Company 23

Posted on Friday 28 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

Its another edition of “Picture in Time” and in this edition we are off to the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.

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Glasgow 488 become one with itself again!

Posted on Thursday 27 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

What’s hat they say about London buses? You wait ages for one to turn up and then two come! Well, it seems the same could be said of Glasgow trams as no sooner do we bring an update on the restoration of Glasgow 1245 at Summerlee then there is a major development at the East Anglia Transport Museum in work to bring Glasgow 488 back into use.

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City of Edinburgh Council look for record damages from lawyers

Posted on Thursday 27 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

It was first reported following the release of Lord Hardie’s report into the first phase of Edinburgh Trams that the City of Edinburgh Council were considering legal action against the lawyers who had advised them during the project. And now reports are out there that they are seeking record damages – totaling up to £222 million.

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Fare increase on NET from 1st December 2025

Posted on Thursday 27 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

It is the season for new fares to be introduced on tram networks it seems! Following on from the news that the cost of travelling on South Yorkshire Supertram will remain frozen or reduced, and that fares will see significant rises on the West Midlands Metro, comes news that Nottingham Express Transit will also see increases. The big difference on NET though is that the new fares will come into force as early as Monday 1st December 2025.

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In Pictures: Rugby in Edinburgh = trams moving the crowds once more!

Posted on Wednesday 26 November 2025 by Gareth Prior

Sunday 23rd November saw the last round of matches in the Quilter Nations Series (formerly known as the Autumn Internationals) with Scotland finishing things off with a comfortable victory against Tonga (56-0). The match once again took place at Murrayfield Stadium and as we’ve come to expect over the past 11 years, Edinburgh Trams were on hand to help move the crowds to and from the match.

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