Tram Car, Experimental Model 261

Category

Library Item

Item no

29710

Title

Tram Car, Experimental Model 261

Description

This photograph is taken at Comiston Road, opposite Braidburn Park, and near the old tram terminus/hut (still there) before it was extended to Fairmilehead.

Artist / maker

Jackman, S. G.

Date

1946

Size

12.9 x 16.8 cm

Type

Photograph

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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