A free, all-night tram service is lined up and ready to go again this year ensuring that everyone in town for the Hogmanay celebrations can get into the city centre and home again afterwards.
Edinburgh Trams is gearing up to play its part in keeping the city moving as tens of thousands of people are expected in the city centre when Pulp take to the stage for this year’s Hogmanay concert in Princes Street Gardens.
Other venues across town are also staging events – further information can be found here.
To make way for the street party, the operator will be running ‘a split service’, with trams serving all stops between Newhaven and Picardy Place, and between Edinburgh Airport and West End.
From midnight until 2am, the free trams will run up to every 10 minutes, and then up to every 20 minutes until the early hours of New Year’s Day, to help partygoers to get home or back to their accommodation as safely as possible.
Lea Harrison, Edinburgh Trams’ Managing Director, said: “Following the enormous success of free, late-night trams in previous years, we’re thrilled to be able to run them again for everyone to get around the city, whatever time they decide to call it a night.”
For more details on the ‘split service’ operating from 7pm on 30 December until 10am on 1 January due to the street party road closures read more here.
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