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2nd v 1st Generation Trams

Part i Fleet Numbers 251 to 260

The Second Generation Fleet Numbers 251 to 277

The first delivery was 252 on 27th April 2010 which was put on public display on track in Princes Street then stored in West Lothian until the Depot could receive cars arriving 1 day after 277. 

The trams were built by CAF in Spain and with 1 exception were delivered over a 15 month period but not in any particular order.

First delivery to Gogar Depot 277 delivered 17th October 2011.

Enthusiasts speculated about the numbers which would be allocated to the new fleet of 27 cars – would they be 371 - 397 or 412 – 438 or just plain 1 - 27?   In the event the Management always intending that the trams would be managed as an integrated service with Lothian Buses and numbered the cars within an existing gap in the bus fleet 251 – 277 thus there could be no confusion of a bus or tram carrying the same fleet number.  

Number 253 in Shandwick Place 

Edinburgh Trams

Thanks and acknowledgement to George P Murray for this article and information.

We are grateful to David Forman who has identified and supplied the locations for the first generation tram images. 


  • 251

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      251 in Shandwick Place in November 2015

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      251

  • 251

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      251 in St Andrew Square 2015 

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      251
       

    Top Right Lothian Road

    Top Left Entering Shrubhill Depot from Dryden Street

    Lower Left Shrubhill Depot Dryden Street

    Lower Right Comiston Road at Comiston Spring Avenue. Braidburn Valley is in the background.

  • 251

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      251 in York Place in 2015

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      251

    Top Left Claremont Park with the gates for Seafield Cemetery in the background

    Lower Left Granton Square outside HMS Claverhouse 

    Right Comiston Road at Comiston Spring Avenue



  • 251

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      251 in Maitland Street in 2015

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      251
      Princes Street


  • 252

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      252 in Princes Street in 2015

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      252

    Top Left Inside Leith Depot

    Lower Left Shandwick Place with scaffolding on St George West Church

    Top Right Antigua Street at Gayfield Place (near top of Leith Walk)

    Lower Right Seafield Road near Fillyside Road 


     

  • 252

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      252 in St Andrew Square in 2015

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      252
       

    Left Earl Grey Street, Tollcross outside Central Hall and near to Tollcross Depot

    Right Princes Street

  • 253

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      253 in Shandwick Place 2015

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      253
      All three images in Princes Street


  • 254

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      254 in St Andrew Square in 2015

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      254

    Top Left Princes Street

    Lower Left Granton Sqaure

    Top Right Leith Walk

    Lower Right Comiston Road near to house number 18, and the junction with Riselaw Road

  • 255

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      255 in Princes Street in 2014

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      255
      Comiston Road


  • 256

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      256 entering York Place from North St Andrew Street 2015

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      256

    Top Left Tollcross looking towards Bruntsfield

    Lower Left Commercial Street by Citadel Place. Behind the tram is one of the entrances to the Docks and also the Highland Queen Whisky Bond

    Top Right Tollcross entering Earl Grey Street

    Lower Right Minto Street at East Mayfield

  • 256

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      256 in Princes Street 2015

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      256

    Left Ferry Road at Newhaven Road

    Right Outside Newington Railway Station at Craigmillar Park 

  • 256

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      256 at Haymarket in 2015

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      256

    Top Left Shandwick Place at Coates Crescent headingtowards Princes Street. The tram is situated where the second generation stop for West End Princes Street is located

    Lower Left Linkfield Road near Beulah Musselburgh

    Top Right Ferry Road at its junction with Newhaven Road

    Lower Right Craigmillar Park at Newington Railway Station

  • 257

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      257 in Princes Street in 2015

    • Edinburgh Trams 257

      In Princes Street a colour image of 257 running on Route 9 to Colinton


  • 257

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      257 Shandwick Place in 2015

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      257

    Top Left Outside Theatre Royal on Broughton Street, near St Mary's Cathedral

    Lower Left Colinton Road at Meggetland Terrace. At the back on the right is the entrance to Craiglockhart Station.

    Top Right (Orientation to be changed - sorry if you have a sore neck, Mary) Location unknown

    Lower Right Minto Street and East Mayfield

  • 258

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      258 St Andrew Square in 2015

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      258
      At Churchill Place, just off Morningside Road 


  • 259

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      259 in Princes Street in 2014

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      259

    Right Buckston Terrace outside the water works (now a housing estate) at the Fairmilehead terminus

    Left Comiston Road near to Riselaw Road

  • 259

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      259 in St Andrew Square 2015

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      259

    Top Left Strathearn Place looking towards Church Hill

    Lower Left Lindsay Road at Leith North Station

    Right The Bridges near to High Street / Royal Mile. Outside Patrick Thompson shop which was known to locals as "PTs" 

  • 260

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      260 in Princes Street in 2015

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      260

    Top Left East End of Princes Street. A bus can be seen in the background turning up on to the Bridges. The GPO is the building at the back 

    Lower Left Exiting Claremount Park turning into Seafield Road

    Top Right Ferry Road near Warriston Road

    Lower Right Foot of Leith Walk at the Railway Station 1955

     

  • 260

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      260 at Haymarket in 2015

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      260

    Left The Bridges with Register House in the background

    Right A view looking out from Leith Tram Depot. The building on the right is Inchkeith House on Leith Walk 

  • 260

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      260 in Shandwick Place in 2015

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      260

    Top Bernard Street in Leith. On the right of the image is a statue of Robert Burns

    Lower Left Craigmillar Park at the change over points near to Newington Station

    Lower Right Granton Square 


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First Generation Tram Fleet  

The original Edinburgh electric fleet was numbered latterly (after 1935) as follows:

1 – 10 Works Cars

11 – 370 Passenger Cars (in the early 1932 car 371 was renumbered 266)

401 – 411 ex Manchester Corporation “Pilcher” or “Pulman” cars (purchased second hand between 1947 – 49) 


 

The First Generation Fleet Numbers 251 to 277

251 - 259   Wooden cars by R Y Pickering of Wishaw 1932

260  All steel car Metro-Cammell 1933

261  One off flush sided wooden car ECT Shrubhill 1933

262 & 263 Streamliner by English Electric 1934

264  Wooden car by ECT Shrubhill 1931

265  same as 260

266  Wooden car by ECT Shrubhill 1930 was numbered 371 for a short time and had experimental trucks and equipment when new

267  same as 262 & 263

268  Wooden car by ECT Shrubhill 1929

269  Domed roof Shrubhill Standard by ECT 1935

270 – 277 Wooden cars by Leeds Forge of Bristol 1923 new for post cable electrification.

Map of the Edinburgh Tram System covering 1922-1956



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