Category Archives: Edinburgh Trams

Article updated 18/4/25 with additional photos. Final tests are set to get underway on a “Tap on, Tap Off” payment system on the Edinburgh Trams network as the operator seeks to make it even easier to pay for travel. The … Continue reading →

Edinburgh Trams will be running extra services for music fans heading to Terminal V, a techno music event taking place at the Royal Highland Centre over the Easter weekend. The event features a fantastic line-up of artists including Brutalismus 3000, … Continue reading →

You’ll have to wait a bit longer to hear more about the plans to extend the Edinburgh Trams system further as the public consultation over the north-south line between Granton and the Bioquarter has been delayed again. It had previously … Continue reading →

Overnight scheduled engineering works on the Edinburgh Trams system will be taking place in April and May 2025 with three Sundays seeing a delay to the start of a full service on the network to allow this to take place … Continue reading →

The latest advert on the Edinburgh Trams network has recently been applied to 261 with the tram entering service with new vinyls for National Galleries Scotland. This is the eleventh different ad that 261 has carried, although several of these … Continue reading →

Anyone wanting to do work on or near the Edinburgh Trams system will be charged extra from Monday 31st March as the Authority to Work permit will increase in price for the first time since 2023.

So far in 2025, any new adverts seen on the Edinburgh Trams network have been for returning companies (either revising a current contract or in the case of Breitling coming back after almost a year away) but that has now … Continue reading →

Recently on Edinburgh Trams we haven’t see too many new advertisers on the CAF built vehicles, and that’s not because advertising is reducing. It is in fact because existing advertisers obviously consider it to be an excellent way to promote … Continue reading →

As International Women’s Day is celebrated, Edinburgh Trams are the latest tram operator to mark the occasion with a look at some of their female colleagues who are living examples that the sector isn’t completely dominated by men.

The cost of travelling on the Edinburgh Trams system is set to increase from Sunday 6th April to help the firm meet the increased operational costs faced by the operator, and is in line with similar changes being made by … Continue reading →

We’re going back to Edinburgh for this pictorial article as we take a look at some images of the trams in service on Saturday 1st March 2025. Steven Hughes captured these images.

This has become a bit of a trilogy of article and here is the conclusion of the great saga of the three day Edinburgh Trams split service owing to engineering works at York Place! Having already concentrated on the operations … Continue reading →

Over the past few months we have seen a number of other tram and light rail systems across the UK sign-up to the “Two lines = STOP” safety campaign and now one of those which has been using it since … Continue reading →