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Edinburgh Transport
Lower Granton Road
Approaching the railway bridge at the foot of
Trinity Road |
Tram and Street
Sweeper
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Reproduced with acknowledgement to
John Stewart, Livingston, West Lothian
Photographer and date not known.
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Lower Granton Road
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Tram and Street Sweeper
Thank you to John Stewart for allowing me to reproduce this photograph taken in
Lower Granton Road. The tram is heading from Granton towards Newhaven and
is about to go around the double bend and under the railway bridge at Trinity
Road and into Trinity Crescent.
The
bridge and embankment have now bee removed, but the double bend is still there.
It is due to be removed when Edinburgh Council can find the cash to realign the
junction.
A
scaffy (street sweeper) is beside his cart on the southern side of Lower Granton
Road.
The
road signs are for a 'Double Bend' and 'Tram Pinch'. The lamp posts have
decorated ironwork at the top.
When
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Reply
1.
David King
Trinity, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to David King for sending me this reply. It reached me about an
hour after I added the photo to the web site.
David wrote:
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1935-39
or 1946-56
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"My guess is that this photo was taken:
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between 1935 (when this style of painting was introduced on the trams) and
16
June 1956 when service 13 was withdrawn,
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not including the war years and immediately afterwards (when the tramcars had
white paint applied to the footsteps and in a band at the foot of the bodywork
to improve visibility during the blackout).
Unfortunately, I can’t read the vehicle number, or I
might have been able to narrow the dates down.
Tramcars of this type were still being built in
1950. I think this may be one of the later ones as the top deck windows have
quite a narrow opening section. This was deeper (about half the total
height of the window) in cars built before the war."
David
King, Trinity, Edinburgh: October 10, 2010 |
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Reply
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Ian Thomson
Lake Maquarie, New South Wales, Australia |
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Thank you to Ian Thomson who wrote:
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Walking and Playing
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"What a great picture of Lower Granton Road.
My wife Betty Thomson (nee Kernan) used to walk this
section as a wee girl in the 1940s,
going to the trinity store just past the bridge for messages for her grannie who
lived in Wardie Square. She also played in Starbank Park as a wee lassie."
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Trams and Buses
"Betty say's when she started work in 1950, she used
the bus along this route. So did buses replace trams then?
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*** Edinburgh trams were
all withdrawn by November 1956. I don't know when the last tram ran along
Lower Granton Road or when buses started running along Lower Granton Road.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh: October 14, 2010
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Ian
Thomson, Lake Maquarie, New South Wales, Australia: October 11, 2010 |
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Reply
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Ronnie Elder
Kandy, Sri Lanka |
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Thank you to Ronnie Elder who replied:
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1954-55?
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"Studying the photographs of trams in the same
location on the Granton History
Group web site, I might hazard an opinion that this
photo would have been taken in 1954-55.
Ronnie Elder, Kandy, Sri Lanka: October 15, 2010 |
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Reply
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Archie Foley
Joppa, Edinburgh |
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Thank you to Archie who wrote:
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Replacement of Trams by Buses
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"I have looked up my copy of 'A Short History of
Transport in Edinburgh', in response to Ian Thomson's comment about his wife
taking the bus to work.
It seems that:
- the first tram service along Lower Granton Road to
be replaced by bus was the No. 2 (to Stenhouse) on December 14, 1952.
- all other Granton services remained until the No.
8 (to Newington) was replaced by bus in April 1955, to be followed at regular
intervals by other services during 1955 and 1956.
Archie Foley, Joppa, Edinburgh: October 21, 2010
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