{"id":56941,"date":"2025-01-17T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56941"},"modified":"2025-01-17T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T19:39:56","slug":"a-trip-to-edinburgh-trams-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=56941","title":{"rendered":"A trip to\u2026 Edinburgh Trams"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article takes us to Edinburgh for a selection of photos taken on the tramway during mid-January 2025. Roy Calderwood is our guide to Edinburgh Trams once again.<\/p>\n

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The skies more or less match the tram as 262 in its Capital Radio advert calls at West End with a service to the Airport on 10th January 2025. Despite those skies looking appealing the frost in the foreground tells us its none too warm! Coates Crescent is on the left and the tower of Charlotte Chapel is in the right background.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Three days later and its 262 again, this time at Foot of Walk bound for Newhaven. We are looking north here along Constitution Street. With slight variations this advert has been on 262 since July 2023.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Again on 13th January 2025 \u2013 and moving into the city centre \u2013 we now see 254 turning the corner into Princes Street on its way to the Airport. The history of the city centre is seen here with the Scott Monument (in memory of the author Walter Scott, who wrote the novel Waverley, with the nearby railway station named after this book) seen on the left. This was built between 1840 and 1846 to a design by George Meikle Kemp (died 1844) and is 200 foot high. Edinburgh Castle is also visible just beyond the monument.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is Princes Street where 273 is seen with a service to the Airport. The tram carries its third design for Uniqlo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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269 is Airport bound when seen in this 13th January 2025 view. Its just pulling away from Picardy Place across the Broughton Place junction to pass the site of the former York Place stop. The new Taco Bell fast food branch replaces Bank of Scotland. The Playhouse Theatre is just visible far right with the illuminated forthcoming attractions sign.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We end this visit with a stunning aerial shot taken on 14th January 2025. This was captured from the John Lewis fifth floor caf\u00e9 and shows 275 at Picardy Place with a service to Newhaven. In the distance is Leith, with the laid up ferry Spirit of Tasmania IV prominent (which arrived in Leith on 4th December 2024 for temporary storage). The tall block of flats on the right is Kirkgate Tower which is beside the Foot of Walk stop. The three blocks wrapped in sheeting on the left is the Dockside Leith residential development rising beside the tramline between Ocean Terminal and Port of Leith stops. In the distance we see the uninhabited small island of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth with the hills of Fife beyond. (All Photographs by Roy Calderwood)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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