{"id":60921,"date":"2025-11-19T22:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60921"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:14:45","slug":"in-pictures-015-latest-in-blackpool-to-lose-external-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60921","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: 015 latest in Blackpool to lose external advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And just like that the last of expired adverts from operational Flexity2 trams in Blackpool have been removed! Following quickly on from the removal of adverts on <strong>009<\/strong>, <strong>015<\/strong> has also now seen its long-term ads promoting Blackpool Transport\u2019s own range of Saver tickets taken off.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>015<\/strong> had been carrying these particular adverts since mid-way through 2014, and in the intervening 11 years they had regularly been changed as the price of the 1-day ticket continued to change. This saw the new price stick on top of the previous cost leading to the tram being wider there than elsewhere!<\/p>\n<p>In fact <strong>015<\/strong> is a tram which has always had some form of external advertising since it first entered service, as back in 2012 when it first ran it was already carrying adverts for the Pleasure Beach\u2019s Nickeoloden Land.<\/p>\n<p>The only operational tram which neither carries a full wrap or one of the new style \u201cT\u201d adverts now in <strong>018<\/strong>. This has adverts which were added in June 2024 ahead of the opening of the North Station extension stating \u201cFrom Tram to Train. From Train to Tram.\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60922\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/015-os.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60922\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60922\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/015-os-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/015-os-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/015-os-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/015-os.jpg 1265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">015 now has nothing except fleet livery on the exterior of the tram following the removal of its Blackpool Transport ticket promotion. (Photograph by Oliver Shenton, 15th November 2025)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And just like that the last of expired adverts from operational Flexity2 trams in Blackpool have been removed! Following quickly on from the removal of adverts on 009, 015 has also now seen its long-term ads promoting Blackpool Transport\u2019s own &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=60921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60923,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60921\/revisions\/60923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}