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Employees and guests at the tram tracks
Unknown, 1920, Photograph
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Employees and guests at the tram tracks
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51078
Title
Employees and guests at the tram tracks linking Edinburgh and Leith.
Description
Employees and honoured guests pose on the occasion of the linking of the Leith and Edinburgh tram systems on 20 June 1920.
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1920
Size
29.2 x 17.8 cm
Type
Photograph
Location
Edinburgh City Archives
This site had been become known as the 'Pilrig Muddle' in reference to the problem of commuters travelling between Leith and Edinburgh having to stop and shift between the two different tram systems. Leith had moved from a horse-drawn service to adopt electrification from 1904 whilst Edinburgh had introduced the cable-car system.
One of the results of the Edinburgh Boundaries Extension & Tramways Act of 1920 and the amalgamation of Leith and Edinburgh was a unification and expansion of the tram network to the outlying districts newly brought into the city.
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ReDrawing Edinburgh: Edinburgh in 1920
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