Leith horse tram in Dryden Street

Category

Library Item

Item no

38104

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume X, Leith horse tram in Dryden Street/the first horse-drawn tram in Leith

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1890

Type

Photograph; Press cutting

Electric trams were introduced in Leith on the 18th of August 1905, but some horse-drawn trams were kept on until 1909 in case of problems with the new system.

There was a tram depot in Dryden Street at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

Horse-drawn trams replaced coaches in 1871. The driver of the first horse-drawn tram in Leith was John Brown of Iona Street, an uncle of Mrs Betty Mellis (nee Cockburn), a member of the South Leith Parish Church congregation.

Until the cable-car system used in Edinburgh was converted to electric, after the amalgamation of Leith with Edinburgh in 1920, anyone travelling between Leith and Edinburgh had to change trams at Pilrig.

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