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Tram Testing St Andrew Square York Place and Princes Street Feb to May 2014 |
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Tram testing began between the tram depot at Gogar and Edinburgh Airport in 2013. Testing was extended over the whole line in early December 2013, and began in daytime in Central Edinburgh in late-February, 2014. |
1.
St Andrew Square Tram Stop
Looking North towards the Harvey Nicol store
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
2.
St Andrew Square Tram Stop
Looking NE towards the Harvey Nicol store
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
3.
St Andrew Square Tram Stop
Looking SW from in front of the Harvey Nicol store, across the square with its Melville Monument
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
4.
St Andrew Square
Looking WSW across the square decorated with 9,500 optical fibre-based glass
spheres on stems, intended
to create a field of light at night. This art exhibition by British Artist
Brian Munro runs until April 27, 2014.
This photo was taken from an upper floor at the Harvey Nicol store at the NE corner of St Andrew Square.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
5.
St Andrew Square
Looking across St Andrew Square towards the former Scottish Widows' Head Office
and the current
Standard Life Investments' Head Office on the west side of the square. The
Melville Monument is in the
centre of the square. The steeple of St Andrew's and St George's church is
near the East End of George Street.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
6.
St Andrew Square Tram Stop
Looking down on two trams at the tram stop on the east side of St Andrew Square.
Some of the
9,500 optical fibre-based glass spheres on stems, creating the Brian Munro's
'Field of Light' art exhibition
can be seen on the grass in this photo. The photo was taken from an
upper floor at the Harvey Nicol store.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
7.
Turning from York Place into North St Andrew Street
A
tram turns from York Place into North St Andrew Street and passes the Scottish
National Portrait Gallery
(the building in pink stone) towards St Andrew Square. Photo taken
from an upper floor at Harvey Nicol store.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
8.
Turning from York Place into North St Andrew Street
Here we zoom-in on the tram seen in photo 7 above. Scotland Street runs
down the hill.
In the upper part of the photo, the Firth of Forth (5 miles wide here) and the
coast of Fife can be seen.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
9.
St Andrew Square Tram Stop
This photo was taken a few seconds after Photo 7 above. The tram has now
progressed a little further
up the hill towards St Andrew Square and is now passing the taxi rank outside
the Bus Station.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken February 27, 2014
10.
York Place Terminus
This tram advertises the day on which the tram service is due to commence
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken May 8, 2014
11.
York Place Terminus
Zoom-in: This tram advertises the day on which the tram service is due to commence
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken May 8, 2014
12.
Tram and Bus in Princes Street
The bus is in the new branded livery of route 26 - Madder, white and gold body with red roof
This is one of the first buses to be painted in this livery. It replaces a harlequin livery with red roof for Route 26
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken May 13, 2014
13.
Tram and Bus in Princes Street
The bus is in the branded livery of route 22- Harlequin body with pink
roof
The bus is has an advert for the Royal Yacht Britannia that is berthed at Ocean
Terminal, the bus destination.
© Copyright: Peter Stubbs. Please contact peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photo taken May 13, 2014
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