As the Edinburgh Trams heads out of the city towards the Airport it passes through Edinburgh Park which has been the focal point of development for some time including a modern business park with artificial lakes and greenery to make it a more pleasant environment for those working there. And that’s where we head for this edition of “Out and About”.
The first tram to come across the camera on this visit was 269 which is just passing the pond with a service to the Airport. Its carrying adverts for Edinburgh Bus Tours with the bright colours standing out.
262 (which had an advert for Loaf at the time of this photo) reflects in the pond as it too passes the pond. The tram is bound for the Airport.
The first full all over advert tram on the network was 270 which calls at Edinburgh Park Central tramstop when heading to the city centre. The blue and yellow advert was for Breitling, since superseded by the second full advert.
Under perfect blue skies 262 is back at Edinburgh Park Central. This time its off towards the city. It will run in passenger service as far as St Andrew Square before carrying on to Newhaven on test. (All Photographs by blackpool_trams, 2nd June 2023)
Lovely pix (did whoever took them use a blue filter? – done that myself for such a blue sky!) but they rather misrepresent Edinburgh Park as a whole. They show the best bits. Try Edinburgh Park station esp. at night. Unlit weed covered wasteland to one side, LCD retail sheds on the other. Every time that the tram stops at Bankhead and DOESN’T stop where the line crosses the railway at Saughton, I wonder where tram users who get on or off are coming from (& going to) and how many potential passengers are being missed out.
The Newhaven extension is at least in real streets with frontaging high density housing and “20 minute neighbourhood” mixes of land uses… surely classic tram territory