{"id":63258,"date":"2026-05-31T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63258"},"modified":"2026-05-30T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:56:58","slug":"edinburgh-trams-to-celebrate-12-years-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63258","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Trams to celebrate 12 years of service!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may come as a surprise to some of you but 31<sup>st<\/sup> May will be the 12<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Edinburgh Trams with the very first public services having operated on the initial line between Edinburgh Airport and York Place on that day in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since that first day the network has gone from strength to strength with an extension to Newhaven having arrived in 2023. In the past year alone major milestones have been reached with 2025 seeing 12.5 million journeys recorded (a growth of 3.3%) and it has also just been announced that 2.4 million journeys have been made on the first year of Tap-on, Tap-off.<\/p>\n<p>2025 also saw four of the five busiest days ever recorded on the network, all of which took place in August thanks to not only the world-famous Festival season, but also Oasis performed at Murrayfield Stadium. This included an all-time daily record of 77,000 passenger journeys recorded.<\/p>\n<p>To help celebrate their birthday, Edinburgh Trams are offering 12 goody bags with exclusive tram merchandise available! This includes a branded tote bag, cap hi-vis keyring, squashy tram, TOTO pin, notebook, and a build your own paper tram.<\/p>\n<p>All you have to do to put yourself in with a chance of winning one of this goody bag is to email <a href=\"mailto:trammedia@edinburghtrams.com\">trammedia@edinburghtrams.com<\/a> and tell them of your favourite tram memory from the past 12 years. Winners will be chosen at random.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may come as a surprise to some of you but 31st May will be the 12th anniversary of Edinburgh Trams with the very first public services having operated on the initial line between Edinburgh Airport and York Place on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=63258\">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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63258"}],"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=63258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63259,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63258\/revisions\/63259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}