{"id":61152,"date":"2025-12-01T22:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61152"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:23:39","slug":"in-pictures-blackpool-014-latest-to-get-a-full-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61152","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Blackpool 014 latest to get a full wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As alluded to in our article on Saturday evening, another tram in Blackpool is now carrying a full vinyl wrap advertising livery. This time its <strong>014<\/strong> \u2013 hardly a stranger to adverts having carried an ad for Wednesday earlier this year \u2013 which has seen new vinyls added and the sponsor of the tram is Elite Competitions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whereas the advert seen on <strong>011<\/strong> left the cabs free of advertising, <strong>014<\/strong> is back to being a complete wrap. It features black and orange vinyls\u00a0 and also includes vinyls across the majority of windows. Upon application it was devoid of external fleet numbers.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third advert that <strong>014<\/strong> has carried \u2013 and all of them have been mainly black! Its first was for JD Sports in October 2018 and then in August 2025 it received the aforementioned ad for the Netflix series Wednesday. Those last advertising vinyls were removed in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The tram had an official launch with its new advert on 29<sup>th<\/sup> November 2025 before it entered service for the first time on 30<sup>th<\/sup> November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Advertising on the modern tramway is now at an all time high. Four trams have full (or fullish) wraps (<strong>011<\/strong>, <strong>012<\/strong>, <strong>014<\/strong> and <strong>016<\/strong>) with a further two (<strong>001<\/strong> and <strong>013<\/strong>) having the \u201cT\u201d style adverts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Video of the two new advert liveries of the past few days are available from Steven Hughes at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UX6f55a9G2Y\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/UX6f55a9G2Y<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_61155\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1.014-sh.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61155\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1.014-sh-550x310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1.014-sh-550x310.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1.014-sh-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1.014-sh.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">30th November also saw the start of the new timetable which includes some trams turning at Pleasure Beach. Here we see 014 with its Elite Competitions advert just coming off the loop. (Photograph by Steve Hughes)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_61156\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2.014-ta.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61156\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61156\" src=\"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2.014-ta-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2.014-ta-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2.014-ta-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2.014-ta.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Another shot of 014 and its new advert at Pleasure Beach. (Photograph by Tony Armitage)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As alluded to in our article on Saturday evening, another tram in Blackpool is now carrying a full vinyl wrap advertising livery. This time its 014 \u2013 hardly a stranger to adverts having carried an ad for Wednesday earlier this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=61152\">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\/61152"}],"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=61152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61157,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61152\/revisions\/61157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}