Edinburgh Street Tramways Co

Horse Tramcar

No 23

  Restored and Photographed

2012

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Front View + Horse

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Lower Deck

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On a Flat Truck + horse

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Rear view + Horse

Edinburgh Street Tramways Co

Horse Tramcar

No 23

Open Weekend ar Lathalmond Vintage Bus Museum

 2013

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Discovery and Restoration
 of the Horse Tram

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Crest

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Lower Deck Advert

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Front + Offside View

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Front View

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Front + Nearside Viewe

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Lower Deck, from the Platform

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Lower Deck, from the Doorway

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Upper Deck
and surrounding Exhibits

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Side View
showing the painted coachwork

Edinburgh Trams

First and Last dates

Nov
1871

Jan
1888

1907

Jun
1922

23Jun
1923

16 Nov
1956

2014

Horse

Yes

Yes

Yes

Cable

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Electric

Yes

Yes

Yes

New Electric

Yes?

One route ran electric trams earlier - the Craiglockhart route from 1910.

Cable cars ran at 11.75mph on the Portobello route and 7.75mph on other routes.

Edinburgh Street Tramway Co operated horse-trams in Edinburgh and Leith.
These were acquired by Edinburgh Corporation in 1893 and Leith Corporation in 1904

Edinburgh Corporation handed over the running of horse-trams in 1893 and cable-trams in 1898 to Dick Kerr & Co.  Edinburgh Corporation took over again from1919.

Portobello was absorbed into Edinburgh in 1898.

Musselburgh Electric Tramways operated electric trams to Joppa in 1904 + Port Seton 1909

Leith Trams

First and Last dates

1871

1905

1909

1920

Leith amalgamated with Edinburgh in 1920

Horse

Yes

Yes

Yes

Electric

Yes

Yes

Yes

Source: The Last Trams, Edinburgh (J L Stevenson):  Publ. Moorfoot Publishing, Edin, 1986.  ISBN 0 906606 11X

First and Last Trams

in and around Edinburgh

These are the dates that some of the tram companies in and around Edinburgh operated:

Source:  The Tramways of Eastern Scotland (JC Gillham + RJS Wiseman).  Publ. Light Rail Transit Association
The table on page 61 of this book gives far more details than are included above.