{"id":46024,"date":"2022-08-10T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46024"},"modified":"2022-08-10T19:05:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T18:05:15","slug":"in-pictures-more-progress-on-trams-to-newhaven-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=46024","title":{"rendered":"In Pictures: More progress on Trams to Newhaven project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past month or so we\u2019ve heard lots from the Trams to Newhaven project with the programme of completion revised and then an unnamed source criticising the project and saying it wouldn\u2019t manage to hit its deadline and now we can see some of the recent progress on the route of the extension from York Place to Newhaven. John Hampton recently took a trip and this pictorial update shows the results of his look at progress.<\/p>\n

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The track in Leith Walk is now connected to the track in Constitution Street (behind the photographer) and concreted in place. Traffic flows in single file across the new tracks between Duke Street to Great Junction Street.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The inbound curve from Ocean Drive to Ocean Way is now laid and awaits connection to the tracks in Ocean Way in the foreground. The outbound track was laid some weeks ago.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A little further towards Ocean Terminal, track is now in place past the Fingal hotel ship with the red facing of the Ocean Terminal shopping centre visible behind the ship.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The tracks are now complete over Tower bridge which spans the mouth of the Water of Leith and has required strengthening to carry the trams.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Looking from the other side of Tower bridge with the old girder swing bridge in the background. The swing bridge used to carry the dockyard railway trains over the Water of Leith but is now used for pedestrians only. (All Photographs by John Hampton, 7th August 2022)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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