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Albert Place

Erecting a pole for the tramway

 

Albert Place  -  erecting a pole for the tramway

Albert Place  -  Erecting a Pole to take the Overhead Cables for Edinburgh's Electric Tramway

©  Reproduced by courtesy Lothian Buses plc

Albert Place

A group of workers, and a few young bystanders, pose in Albert Place to have their photograph taken, during the erection of one of the many poles to support the overhead lines for Edinburgh's electric tramway system.

Princes Street  -  1917  -  Electric and Cable Cars ©

Edinburgh's tramway system was converted from cable cars to electric cars between 1919 and 1923.

 

 

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