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Cable Car Ducts Revealed in Leith Walk
Cable tram ducts revealed during tram works in Leith Walk March 2021
Edinburgh Tram Works Unearths Granton Line Tunnel
Tram works at Shrubhill in Edinburgh have exposed the top of the rail tunnel that used to run to Granton Harbour
Granton Gasworks Station to undergo restoration
The regeneration of the Edwardian B-listed Granton Station building will be part of a new waterfront district.
‘First of a kind’ ground breaking model helps to fund the reopening of UK rail line.
Northumberland Line to re-open using E-Rail model
Edinburgh Tram Extension to Newhaven
Work on the extensions to the tram network are well underway so follow links to the project web site for more information.
Is Pay-as-you-Drive the future?
Reform Scotland, the independent, non-partisan think-tank, has called for a revolution in how Scotland pays for its roads
Flyby Videos of old Edinburgh Railways
Here are some flybys of old Edinburgh railways mapped onto a modern map of Edinburgh
More ambitious vision needed for Edinburgh to achieve modal shift
The ‘Keeping Edinburgh Moving’ report sets out a more ambitious vision for a public transport network in our city designed to deliver that vital modal shift away from car use.
CRAG’s response to consultation on “The Future of Waverley Station”, 26 April 2019
Our template is Hamburg Hauptbahnhof (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Hauptbahnhof) – with all platforms being through running and with two major overbridges running across those running lines enabling passengers to access their desired platform in sequential order. These overbridges can also carry shops and other passenger facilities. The Calton tunnels should also be both re-doubled – they constitute an unacceptable bottleneck at the eastern approaches to the station and impose unaacceptable restrictions on train-service provision.