Edinburgh Trams hit by delays after broken down tram

Posted on Saturday 2 August 2014 by Gareth Prior

Services on Edinburgh Trams were suspended for an hour with delays for the remainder of the day on Friday 25th July after one of the fleet of CAF built trams failed at Haymarket. The tram suffered a loss of power at approximately 1630 (the fact that your Editor arrived in the city at about 1630 on the same day is nothing but a coincidence – honest!) and meant that all trams were stopped for approximately one hour. The errant tram was eventually returned to the Gogar Depot but for the rest of the evening trams were only running to a 15-20 minute frequency instead of the usual 8-10 minutes. (Despite the fact that I arrived at Haymarket Station at about the time of the breakdown I managed to completely miss that there was a broken down tram!)

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1 Response to Edinburgh Trams hit by delays after broken down tram

  1. Mike Thomas says:
    Tuesday 5 August 2014 at 11:37

    Visited Edinburgh yesterday (4th) at 1230 the signs at Haymarket were saying services were terminating at West End because of an accident in St Andrew’s Sq, don’t know whether a tram was involved or not. Services seemed back to normal by 1330 and in service 252,255,260,264,267,269,272,274,277 around 1345 259 came off Depot replacing 269.
    256 entered service to Airport at 1523 and 262 came out 1613 in the meantime 275 came off Depot at 1600 entering service to York Place.

    On Depot 251,253,256,261,262,265,266,268 271,273,275,276 and viewed with binoculars just inside the Gogarburn end of the depot building was a tram with no number on cab side – anybody any ideas on ID please ?

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