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Category Archives: Site News
What’s New on British Trams Online? 25th April 2026
This week’s photos are the second part of our look at Manchester Metrolink in the latter part of March 2026:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 18th April 2026
This week we have photos coming from Beamish during a couple of days in March 2026:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 11th April 2026
With the West Midlands Metro extension to Millennium Point having opened on Easter Sunday that is where this week’s photos come from:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 4th April 2026
This week we have part one of a selection of photos from Manchester Metrolink:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 29th March 2026
Photos this week come from the West Midlands Metro:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 14th March 2026
There are two sets of photos this week – from Edinburgh and a look at the UK trams at the Seashore Trolley Museum in the US:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 7th March 2026
Photos in this week’s update come from Manchester Metrolink in late February 2026:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 28th February 2026
Into the archives again this week. This time we take a look at Blackpool’s Centenary Cars from 2005-2009:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 21st February 2026
We go into the archives to 2008 for some views from Nottingham Express Transit this week:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 14th February 2026
We go overseas for this week’s set of photos with images from the Trolley Fair at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in 2024:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 7th February 2026
A small double helping of photos from late 2025 including Edinburgh Trams and Tyne and Wear Metro as we catch-up from what happened during our little main site hiatus last year:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 31st January 2026
January comes to an end and we have photos from Blackpool and a look back over the years at the Heaton Park Tramway:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 24th January 2026
We return to Crich’s Tram Weekend in September 2025 for an alternative selection of photos in this week’s main site update:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 17th January 2026
There are two sets of photos added to the site this week:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 10th January 2026
This week’s main site update includes a set of photos taken just before Christmas at the East Anglia Transport Museum during their Ride the Lights event:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 3rd January 2026
Happy New Year! Once again please accept my apologies for the disruption in updates to British Trams Online since early December 2025 – and a big thanks to everyone who checked in to see if everything was OK. We should … Continue reading
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Wishing all readers of British Trams Online a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! The BTO “offices” will be closed until early in 2026 and in that time no new comments will be approved for publication and emails … Continue reading
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Delay to updates
Apologies for the continued delays to up-to-date uploads to the website due to ongoing personal reasons. I do now have a bit more spare time but this is likely to be limited for the next few weeks still. I am … Continue reading
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 29th November 2025
And this week the main site update is off to South London:
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What’s New on British Trams Online? 22nd November 2025
Photos this week feature the last event of 2025 at Crich – Tramlight:
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