The History of Leith

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January 5, 2005

Let’s take a ride down memory line

ADRIAN MATHER

FOR decades they were the most common mode of transport on the Capital’s streets. Affordable, comfortable and, unlike modern trains and buses, usually running on time, Edinburgh’s trams were an everyday sight.

From their early horse-drawn origins to the motorised carriages of their heyday in the 1950s, the trams carried hundreds of thousands of passengers from all across the Capital – taking them along city-centre routes such as Princes Street and The Mound, as well as to Leith and Portobello.

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