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.

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 ...

Consultant who played role in delivering extension to existing route says private finance can deliver a second line.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Hardie, ...

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 ...

Trams will start passenger services on the route to Newhaven just over nine years after the opening of the original tram line in May 2014. Picture: Scott Louden.

Edinburgh tram scheme had ‘litany of avoidable failures’ says nine-year inquiry. Scotland’s current transport minister dismisses findings as says inquiry was ‘too long and too costly’ ...