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When the decision was made to decommission Edinburgh's original tram network in 1952, the city authorities took just 4 years to unravel more than eight decades of history and 47 miles of track ...
He also still has his original ticket and a photograph from the final trip, which he took aged 14. "I couldn't tell you my first journey on the trams, it was that far back," he said.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND—The Scotsman reports that work to extend a tram line in Edinburgh has uncovered original brickwork and a pulley wheel. Edinburgh’s pulley wheel tram system, dated to about ...
Alex Salmond said there was "considerable public concern" over the way the troubled scheme had been run and added that lessons should be learnt. The trams finally opened in Scotland's capital last ...
City authorities and Scottish government ministers were chiefly to blame for a “litany of avoidable failures,” according to an official inquiry into the delayed and over-budget Edinburgh tram ...
But Edinburgh’s tram aspirations don’t end there. Plans to complete the original line west to Newbridge along with a further route east to Musselburgh feature in the Scottish Government’s ...
Edinburgh Tram Service Begins 30 May 2014, 18:12 | Updated: 30 March 2016, 13:50 Two of the last passengers of the original Edinburgh trams have recreated their journey to mark the launch of the ...
Edinburgh's trams will be running by May 2014, the city council has announced. ... The tram project has cost £776m - millions over the original budget - and is years behind schedule.
An Edinburgh tram on the new extension of the line The extension to the city's tram service was approved by councillors in April 2019. By that point the cost had risen from an original estimate of ...
An inquiry into Edinburgh’s tram project has found a "litany of avoidable failures" were to blame for it running £400 million over budget and opening five years late. The probe led by Lord ...
And then there's Edinburgh Tram, which faced long delays, high costs, and the "abandonment of half the original scheme." But despite such challenges, trams in the UK have been "transformational ...
When the decision was made to decommission Edinburgh's original tram network in 1952, the city authorities took just 4 years to unravel more than eight decades of history and 47 miles of track ...