Category Archives: Edinburgh Trams

This article is another case of us preparing an article to be published whilst away on holiday and then things changing so it was more or less out of date before it was even published! The last part of the … Continue reading →

We reported last week that Edinburgh Trams 255 had recently received new adverts for its same sponsor – Forever Edinburgh – but at that time it hadn’t re-entered service and so we had only featured it at the depot with … Continue reading →

It’s a year where the award nominations for Edinburgh Trams just seems to have kept on coming and it shows no signs of ending after it was confirmed that they are up for a number of awards at the forthcoming … Continue reading →

It looks as if there are some things more certain than death and taxes – new adverts in Edinburgh! The past few months have seen a major influx of new contracts and two trams not previously pictured here are 255 … Continue reading →

In preparation for the official reopening of Picardy Place island later this month a much missed statue has been returned – and its elementary as the Sherlock Holmes statue is back in position. The statue was removed in 2018 during … Continue reading →

More than nine years after originally announced, and almost eight since the preliminary hearing, the full Edinburgh Trams Inquiry report has finally been published – and it’s a big one! Coming in at just short of 1000 pages (there is … Continue reading →

A new online system which allows contractors and members of the public to apply for a permit to work alongside the Edinburgh Trams system is celebrating its own milestone following the processing of over a thousand applications since being introduced … Continue reading →

We do like our firsts on British Trams Online and we have another on Edinburgh Trams! Having only earlier this year seen the first vinyl wrap advert on a tram in the Scottish capital and then gradually seen more appear, … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Trams are celebrating their busiest ever month after more than 1.2 million journeys were recorded during the month of August. With the extension to Newhaven now firmly embedded into the city’s public transport offering plus the Festival taking place … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Trams Limited – operator of the Edinburgh Trams system – have been fined £240,000 after admitting a health and safety breach over the death of a pedestrian in 2018. Carlos Correa Palacio, 53, was hit by a tram at … Continue reading →

Services on the Edinburgh Trams network will be revised in the evening and early morning at the start of September to allow essential engineering works to take place. To minimise disruption the works will take place in 12 hour shifts … Continue reading →

Our journey on the newest stretch of open tramway in the UK continues in “Stop by Stop” today – we now reach the third stop of the Trams to Newhaven extension at Port of Leith.