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Cable Car, Gorgie
Unknown, 1920, Photograph
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Cable Car, Gorgie
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29712
Title
Cable Car, Gorgie
Artist / maker
Unknown
Date
1920
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17.5 x 25.0 cm
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Photograph
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
In June 1922, the first electric trams to replace the cable car system came up from Leith, which had come within the Edinburgh boundary in 1920, 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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