What’s New on British Trams Online? 7th November 2026

Posted on Saturday 7 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

This week we have some photos from the modern Blackpool Tramway system:

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In Pictures: Edinburgh Trams 262 latest to change adverts

Posted on Monday 9 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

Edinburgh Trams 262 is now up to 11 different adverts with its year long contract for Square coming to an end and seeing new vinyls added for Chisholm Hunter. As with the Square advert its another black backed set of vinyls.

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Isle of Man tramways end the season in style!

Posted on Monday 9 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November 2026 was the end of yet another operating season for various tramways and railways on the Isle of Man, but they aren’t ones to go out with a whimper! A varied programme of special events took place with the Manx Electric Railway and Douglas Bay Horse Tramway featuring heavily to stay goodbye to the season.

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Old and New – Blackpool Tramway: Waterloo Road

Posted on Monday 9 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

In this edition of “Old and New” we return to the Blackpool Tramway to take a look at a pair of images at the same location, one with a heritage tram and one with a modern tram. Location this week is Waterloo Road.

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They’ve Run in 2026 – Meet the Trams: Seaton Tramway – 8

Posted on Sunday 8 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

It is that time of the week again when we “Meet the Trams” and we continue our way through the Seaton Tramway fleet.

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In Pictures: Trams and poppies in Edinburgh

Posted on Sunday 8 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

As we pause to remember on Remembrance Sunday any tramways across the UK are also showing their respects. This includes free travel for armed services personnel and veterans on both Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day itself on 11th November as well as trams being adorned with poppies. One such system is Edinburgh Trams who have once again this year been displaying poppies in the cab windows of their trams.

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SYMCA prepares to submit plans for £1.45bn investment in transport

Posted on Sunday 8 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

The South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) is currently preparing to submit its £1.45 billion Transport for City Regions (TCR) programme to Government, which will include major investment in the region’s transport network – said to be the biggest coordinated investment in transport for a generation.

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Trade & Trams session sees sharing of information on light rail solutions

Posted on Sunday 8 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

UKTram’s second Trade & Trams session took place at the end of October. The aim of these sessions is to get supply trade members to share their experience of light rail projects with operators and engineers.

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In Pictures: Two new adverts in Manchester

Posted on Saturday 7 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

Manchester Metrolink M5000s 3100 and 3110 have swapped adverts with the pair being seen in service during the first week of November carrying new vinyl wrap liveries.

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Around the World in Trams: Budapest 1307

Posted on Saturday 7 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

We return to Europe for our next set of photos in “Around the World in Trams” as during November we will be featuring images taken in Budapest.

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EU Presidency meetings to lead to Luas service changes

Posted on Saturday 7 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

There will be an amended service running on Dublin’s Luas tram network from Wednesday 11th until Friday 13th November as the city is host to a series of EU Presidency meetings.

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Nexus Head of Engineering recalls his time at Parliament

Posted on Saturday 7 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

Ben Brooks, current Head of Engineering at Nexus, has been recalling his varied career as five new engineering roles are being advertised to join the engineering team at Nexus who look after the Tyne and Wear Metro, amongst other assets.

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In Pictures: Trams in Sheffield City Centre during engineering works

Posted on Friday 6 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

Work to replace track, including the crossover at Hillsborough, on South Yorkshire Supertram took place over the last week of October (which also happened to be the local school half-term holidays). With work taking place on the Blue and Yellow routes from Shalesmoor to Malin Bridge and Middlewood there were changes to services which, coupled with the ongoing issue at Birley Lane, saw a few unusual destinations on the trams. In this pictorial article Luke Goldsworthy provides some images from the city centre.

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Work set to start on Bury Interchange redevelopment

Posted on Friday 6 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

The redevelopment of Bury Interchange is due to start in mid-November with work getting underway to transform the existing site into a modern and accessible transport hub. The project will be completed in two phases, with phase one due to see the construction of a new footbridge and improvements to the tram platforms.

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Picture in Time: Tyne and Wear Metro

Posted on Friday 6 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

We have another photo from the Tyne and Wear Metro in this latest edition of “Picture in Time”.

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In Pictures: West Midlands Metro 50 swaps TK Maxx vinyls

Posted on Thursday 5 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

West Midlands Metro 50 has had a change of its advertising vinyls, but its not a change of advertiser as it is still promoting TK Maxx with a revised set having been applied to the tram on 3rd November 2026.

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In Pictures: Poppies on trams in Sheffield

Posted on Thursday 5 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

In the lead up to this year’s Remembrance commemorations, South Yorkshire Supertram are once again showing their respect with poppies being added to trams. Both the Siemens-Duewag trams and the Citylink tram-trains have been receiving the poppies – the standard trams get poppies on the side of the cab windows whilst the tram-trains get vinyl poppies on the ends of the vehicle. Stuart Cooke with the photos.

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All 46 new Metro trains now officially handed over for service

Posted on Thursday 5 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

As we reported a few weeks ago, the last of the new trains for the Tyne and Wear Metro entered service during October 2026. This brings an end to the £362 million project to introduce 46 new state-of-the-art trains to replace the original trains which had given over 40 years of service to the northeast.

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In Pictures: Crich says farewell to another main operating season

Posted on Wednesday 4 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

And just like that another main season is over at the National Tramway Museum, Crich. It may have been its first back as the National Tramway Museum after around 25 years but the year built upon recent successes with trams from across the UK in operation over the seven and a half months. And whilst it may be the end of the main operating season, things aren’t quite over for trams at Crich in 2026 as this coming weekend sees the special Tramlight event!

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Work carries on to fix the mineshaft issue at Birley Lane

Posted on Wednesday 4 November 2026 by Gareth Prior

It has now been over two months since an old mineshaft opened up at Birley Lane in Sheffield leading to services on Supertram’s Blue route to Halfway being suspended. Since then investigations have been taking place to see the extent of the issue and to plan repairs and SYMCA have now released another update to give a progress report on what is happening.

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