Edinburgh Transport

Photo Index

Aircraft

Edinburgh Aero Club   - founded 1928 ©

Approaching Edinburgh Airport  1960a

Approaching Edinburgh Airport  2005

Approaching Edinburgh Airport  2009

Edinburgh Aero Club

Glider

RAF Display at the Meadows

Turnhouse Open Day  c1954

Army

Field Gun and army truck outside Greyfriars' Bobby's Bar for the ceremony to Greyfriars' BObby in Greyfriars' Churchyard ©

Gun Tractor and Gun

Balloons

Balloons at Marine Gardens, Portobello  -  July 26, 1913 ©

Marine Gardens, Portobello

Barrow Box

Photo of a barrow box and 4 children, taken around 1933.  Where might this photo have been taken? ©

Where is it?

Boats

Leith Fishing Boats, including LH28  -  Where? ©

Forth Ports Pilots' boat leaving Granton Harbour ©

Boats at Newhaven Harbour

Forth Ports Pilots' Boat

Other Boats

Union Canal

Buses  [old]

Char-a-Banc at Dunsapie Loch in Holyrood Park  -  close-up ©

Accidents

Bus & Tram Tickets

Coach Outings

Early Buses

Edinburgh Buses  1950s

Edinburgh Buses  1960s

Edinburgh Buses  1970s to 2000

Gas-powered buses

Lathalmond Scottish Vintage Bus Museum

Lothian Buses  restored

SMT Buses:  1940s

Transport Depots

Buses  [recent]

Bus 726 with route branding for Route 44 in Princes Street  -  November 2005 ©

Bus Depots

Bus Station - St Andrew Square

Lothian Buses - 2000-03

Lothian Buses  - 2004

Lothian Buses  - 2005

Lothian Buses  - 2006

Lothian Buses  - 2007

Lothian Buses  - 2009

Lothian Buses  - 2011

Lothian Buses  - 2012-13  Grotto Bus

Lothian Buses  - Adverts on Buses

Lothian Buses  - Bus Garages + Works

Lothian Buses  - Bus Termini

Lothian Buses  - Converted

Lothian Buses  - Bus Liveries

Lothian Buses  - Restored

Lothian Buses  - Tour Buses

Canal

Raft Race on the Union Canal - June 27, 2009 ©

Raft Race

Cars

1938 SS100, as new ©

Robert Devlin in the driving seat of his father's Daimler ©

Old Car parked outsideThe St Stephen's Motor & Cycle Depot, 10 Hamilton Place, Stockbridge ©

Traffic Surveys at Corstorphine, 1931 ©

Boys' Brigade

Car Dealers

Cars 1900s

Cars 1920s

Cars 1930s and motorcycle

Cars 1950s

Cars 1960s

Cars 1970s

Cars 2000s

Cars and Shops

Citroen 2CVs

Decorated Cars

'Do you Know? - Motor Cars' book

Devlin's Daimler

Edinburgh Transport Dept

Granton

Hudson Terraplane

Ingliston motor racing

John Menzies' Car + Chauffeur

Lunn's Removals

Madelvic Car Factory

Motor Shows

Old Car - what make?  Straker Squire

Showrooms and Garages

Traffic Survey Corstorphine 1931 + 2011

Caravans Caravan "'which can be towed at up to 100mph" at the Ideal Holiday Show at Waverley Market - 1959 ©

Holiday Shows  at Waverley Market

Cycles

Urban Downhill Cycling Event  -  Edinburgh -  October 6, 2007 ©

Bisto Square

Cycle Speedway Tracks

Downhill Urban Cycle Race

Fell & Mathieson Plumber's Bike

Old cycles

Tricycles

Ferries

Postcard  -  Horses embarking at Granton Harbour for manoeuvres ©

Inchcolm Ferry

Granton Ferry

Queensferry Passage

Rosyth - Zeebrugge Ferry

Fire Engines

Fire Engine parked outside the former Ritz Cinema, Rodney Street, Canonmills ©

Fire Stations

Fire Engines

Recent Photos

Accessories

Horse-drawn vehicles

and

Horses

St Cuthbert's Milk Deliveries  -  January 1985 ©

Acme Farms Dairy

Broxburn - D Drysdale, Baker

Bruntsfield? - horse + carriage

Carriage Pass for Granton Road

Coaches

 

Comiston Dairy

Gorgie - horse and dust cart

Funeral Procession

Horse Trams

Portobello baker

 

Riding of the Marches  2009

Scotmid Milk Deliveries

St Cuthbert's Fleshing Dept Cart

St Cuthbert's Grocery Cart

Hovercraft

Hovercraft approaching Portobello, during the second day of trials for the Portobello-Kirkcaldy service  -  July 17, 2007 ©

Portobello - Kirkcaldy trials

Lorries

Vans

©

Bruce Peebles Transformer being delivered to Portobello Power Station, 1952 ©

The City Cars  -  probably in the 1920s ©

St Cuthbert's Cooperative Association Ltd delivery van  -  Registration No SC 4860 ©

Lunn's Removal Vans  -1920s? ©

Accidents

Ambulances

Austin Van

Beveridge Mobile Grocery Van

Bruce Peebles' transformers

Buttercup Dairy Co

 

Coal Deliveries

Duncan's Albion Van

Edinburgh Parcels Van

Edinburgh Transport Dept

Esparto Grass from Granton

Fish deliveries

Flour delivery

 

Grampian TV vehicles

Granton

Grocery Deliveries

Ice Cream Vans

Heavy Loads

 

John H Lunn  Removal vans

Leith Pageant  1960s

Madelvic Car Factory

New Lorries

Pentland Garage

 

Small Vans

Snow Ploughs

St Cuthbert's Coop  delivery vans

Tizer Lorry

Tow Trucks

Questions

Motor Cycles Waverley Carnival, Wall of Death - 1958 ©

Shows  at Waverley Market

Navy

Field Gun and army truck outside Greyfriars' Bobby's Bar for the ceremony to Greyfriars' BObby in Greyfriars' Churchyard ©

Royal Navy Medical Transport

Pedestrians

Pedestrians crossing Chambers Street heading towards the National Museum of Scotland ©

Pedestrians

Prams

Where is it  -  Photograph of a railway line and a pram.  Possibly Newhaven or Granton ©

Granton Harbour

Keddie Gardens

Railways

©

A North British Railways train passes through Princes Street Gardens towards Edinburgh Waverley Station ©

A Fish Train crosses the Forth Bridge  -  1950s ©

Railways - Index to pages

Railway Tickets

Railways - Central Edinburgh

Railways - North Edinburgh

Railways - South Edinburgh

Railways - SW Edinburgh

Railways - West Edinburgh

Railways - East Edinburgh

Railways - Forth Bridge

Railways - Leith

Railways - East Lothian

Railways - Midlothian

Railways - West Lothian

Railways - Around Edinburgh 1950s

Railways - 1950s - DMUs

Railways - Where is it?

Railway Accidents

Railway Equipment

Scottish Railway Stations - from 1990s

Roundabouts

Roundabout at Burntisland - Probably 1950s  -  'Shop at Binns' ©

Bus - Shop at Binns

Sailing

'The Skylark' at Portobello Beach ©

'Fair Maid' - Leith

Queen Mary 2

Sailing around Queensferry

'The Skylark' - Portobello

'The Waverley' and 'Balmoral'

Shipping

Leith Docks  -  Photograph in Edinburgh Official Guide, 1923 ©

Boat Yards and Ship Yards

Devlin Trawlers

Forth Bridge - Cruise Liners

Forth Bridge - Queensferry Passage

Granton Ferry

Granton Harbour

Granton to London

HMS Edinburgh

Leith Docks

Leith Harbour

Leith Ship Launch  - MV Kaitoa

Steam Barge - Where was it built?

Tug - Medusa

Steam Transport

on the roads

Steam Rolle rin Edinburgh, 1960s ©

Steam Buses

Steam Passenger Road Transport

Steam Rollers

Traction Engines

Taxis

Edinburgh Taxi Trde Children's Outing, 2012  -  Taxi decorated as Thomas the Tank Engine + Bear ©

Taxi Trade Children's Outing, 2012

Trams

Princes Street  -  1917  -  Electric and Cable Cars ©

Old Trams (to 1956)

Cable Car 226

Decorated Trams

Illuminated Trams

Trams in Central Edinburgh

Trams around Edinburgh

Horse Tramcars

First and Last Trams

Tramway Maintenance

Tramway to Redford

Transport Depots

Trams Preserved

New Trams (from around 2013)

Tram News

Tram Posters

Trams - Princes Street preparations

Tram Testing - at night - Dec 2013

Tram Testing - Daytime - Feb-May 2014

Trams in Service - June 2014 onwards

Yachting

Edinburgh Taxi Trde Children's Outing, 2012  -  Taxi decorated as Thomas the Tank Engine + Bear ©

Granton Harbour

Lift-out - Oct 27, 2007

Lift-in   - Apr 5, 2008

Lift-in   - Apr 6, 2013

Other Transport

 ©

Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Procession  -  What are these vehicles, and when might the photo have been taken? ©

Edinburgh Corporation Vehicles

South Pole Sno-Cat

Post Office Vehicles

Studio Portraits

Portrait of three in a studio car.  Who was the photographer? ©

Post card portrait - 4 ladies in an 'aeroplane' - similar to a photograph from the studio of Chris Low ©

Transport in Studio Portraits

     

Edinburgh Transport

 Maps

Photos

Types

Early

Today

 

More Transport Photos

Links to Transport Web Sites

 

Edinburgh Transport Maps and Timetables

Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department  -  Map of Tram and Bus Routes  -  1924 ©

All Transport Maps

Railways:  from 1831

Railways: early 1900s

Trams + Buses:  1924

Trams + Buses:  1928

Trams + Buses:  1932

Roads and Railways:  1884

Saughton Exhibition: 1908

Timetables:  1960

1920 Route Map
(Edinburgh & Leith)

1950 Route Map (Edinburgh) Index +Sources

Granton History Group Web Site Links

1920 Tram Route Map (Edinburgh & Leith)

1950 Tram Route Map (Edinburgh)

 

Background Notes on Edinburgh Transport

Types of Transport

Trams

Coaches

Railways

Early Photography

Buses

Canals

Shipping

Edinburgh Today - Transport

Web site links - Transport

Recollections - Transport

 

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