
Category: Transportation


The thread about the København; the enigmatic Leith-built sailing ship that mysteriously disappeared in the South Atlantic, never to be seen again

The thread about the Ratho Rail Crash of 1917; “an unfortunate illustration of the danger of taking things for granted”

The thread about the Fifth Day of Christmas; A theme of Five and Golden but not rings

The thread about the Elliot Junction Disaster; a tragic railway crash in the midst of a blizzard that shares its anniversary with the Tay Bridge Disaster

The thread about the excavation of parts of Edinburgh’s old cable tramway system from beneath Leith Walk, what the various pieces of ironmongery were and how it all worked

The thread about the early history of trams in Edinburgh, how horses just couldn’t cope and how the city came to adopt cable cars as its preferred means of public transport

The thread about the Regent Road; why it had to be built and why the usually infallible Robert Stevenson made a mistake at one end which changed the top of Easter Road forever

The thread about Edinburgh Corporation Tramway’s 1951 A to Z of Zoo animals advertising posters

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