The site of the old

Engine House

 for driving the cables for Edinburgh's cable cars  -  Shrubhill Depot

 

Engine house  -  for driving the cables for cable cars

 The site of the old winding engine at Shrubhill depot, photographed in 2007

©  Reproduced with acknowledgement to Mark, Edinburgh                                                                                     Photograph taken 2007

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     The site of the old winding engine at Shrubhill depot, photographed in 2007 ©

 

Engine House

Shrubhill Depot

Thank you to Mark for providing this photograph,  taken in 2007, showing the site of the engine house for driving cables for Edinburgh's cable cars.

Mark has a particular interest in exploring and photographing 'Edinburgh underground'

Shrubhill depot is in Leith Walk, about mid-way between Edinburgh and Leith.  It was been used as a depot and  building / repair shop for cable cars and trams, then for housing and repairing buses, until Lothian Region Transport sold the depot in the early 2000s.

Here is a view of the engine house in use, taken probably about a century earlier:

Engine House for driving cables for Edinburgh's Cable Car system ©

 

 

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