{"id":41140,"date":"2021-08-24T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41140"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:09:37","slug":"in-pictures-old-cable-tram-wheel-discovered-in-trams-to-newhaven-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=41140","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: Old cable tram wheel discovered in Trams to Newhaven project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Throughout the Trams to Newhaven project there have been plenty of historic discoveries under the surface as preparations are made for tracklaying. We have seen bodies exhumed which are helping to give the medieval history of Leith more context but now something all together more recent has been discovered \u2013 and it has a tram connection! Dating back to the turn of the 19th<\/sup>\/20th<\/sup> century an old cable tram wheel has been discovered and is now being studied by archaeologists<\/p>\n

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The wheel has been discovered during excavations on Leith Walk close to the junction with Pilrig Street. It is thought that it dates to approximately 1899 when the first cable tram route was inagurated by Edinburgh and District Tramways from Nether Liverton to Pilrig (the Leith boundary) via the Bridges. Edinburgh once had the most extensive cable tram network in the British Isles with, at its height, 18.75 miles of route being available. The last cable tram routes were abandoned in June 1923.<\/p>\n

There have been other cable tram discoveries over the years with a section of track<\/a> on display at Waterloo Place, a pulley on display<\/a> at Henderson Row and the fa\u00e7ade of the old depot<\/a> also visible on Henderson Row. (All three have featured in our \u201cStill Standing\u201d series). Previous Trams to Newhaven project work also discovered some ironmongery under the road surface close to the depot.<\/p>\n

The wheel which has been found will be treated as have other artefacts discovered during the work with archaeologists from contracts Guard Archaeology investigating further. No decisions have been made on what will happen to the wheel at this stage.<\/p>\n

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Photos showing the discovered pulley wheel still in situ to allow full archaeological investigations to take place. (Both Photographs by John Hampton)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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