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Edinburgh Trams is a tramway in Edinburgh, Scotland, operated by Edinburgh Trams Ltd. It is an 18.5-kilometre (11.5 mi) line between Newhaven and Edinburgh Airport, with 23 stops. [2] [3] [4] A modern tram network for Edinburgh was proposed by Edinburgh Council in 1999, with detailed design work being performed over the next decade ...
English: Map of the Edinburgh Trams system, showing the as built line (opened May 2014) alongside the various proposed lines that were ultimately abandoned or postponed indefinitely. Date 17 November 2007
Buses on Princes Street, one of the main thoroughfares in Edinburgh. Map of tram and commuter rail services in Edinburgh. Edinburgh is a major transport hub in east central Scotland and is at the centre of a multi-modal transport network with road, rail and air communications connecting the city with the rest of Scotland and internationally.
The airport has no dedicated railway station. However, it is served by the nearby Edinburgh Gateway station, which serves as an interchange with Edinburgh Trams services to the airport. [120] The tram line also connects the airport to the nearby Edinburgh Park railway station. [121] A more extensive Edinburgh Airport Rail Link project to ...
This is a route-map template for Edinburgh Trams, a Scottish tramway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Testing of new trams on this stretch of track started in December 2011 - the first time that a tram had moved under electric power in Edinburgh since 1956. [17] The first daytime test run of a tram along the full route from Edinburgh Airport to York Place took place on 20 February 2014. [18]
Trams operated in Edinburgh from 1871 to 1956, and resumed in 2014. The first systems were horse-drawn, while cable-haulage appeared in the city in 1888. Electric trams first ran on systems in neighbouring Musselburgh (1904) and Leith (1905), meeting the Edinburgh cable-trams at Joppa and Pilrig respectively.
Map of Edinburgh's Haymarket mainline railway station and the Haymarket stop on the Edinburgh Trams line. This map was created from OpenStreetMap project data, collected by the community. This map may be incomplete, and may contain errors.