Electric Tram

Category

Library Item

Item no

29703

Title

Electric Tram

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1952

Size

11.7 x 14.0 cm

Type

Photograph; Reproduction

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

In June 1922, the first electric trams to replace the cable car system came up from Leith, and by 1924 routes extended to most of the city. From then on plans were made to extend the tramways and by February 1937, when the Corstorphine route reached Maybury Road, this proved unexpectedly to be the last extension opened, as the outbreak of World War II caused plans to be put aside.

There were 28 routes, all of which ran along or touched Princes Street, and 4 depots, and the system worked well until new housing areas appeared beyond the tram routes in1950, when bus services began for those areas. In the same year, it was proposed that 25% of the system be scrapped in favour of buses and there began a gradual withdrawal of routes.

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