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Photographic copy of drawing showing section of strata from Scotland Street to Canal Street Tunnel.
D 10236 CN
Description Photographic copy of drawing showing section of strata from Scotland Street to Canal Street Tunnel.
Date 24/4/1846
Collection City of Edinburgh Council Architectural Drawings and Photographs
Catalogue Number D 10236 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 6434
Copies SC 520265
Scope and Content Plan of the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway Tunnel, showing the north entrance at Scotland Street, Edinburgh Scotland Street, begun in 1823, was built with tenements which step down the hill from the eastern end of Drummond Place. The north-east section was built in 1883 as part of the final push to complete the northern New Town. The railway tunnel, opened in 1846, ran from Waverley Station under Dublin Street and Drummond Place to link with the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven terminus, opened in 1842, at Scotland Street. The last section of the street is still uncompleted. The railway fell at an incline of 1 in 30 from Waverley Station and trains went down by gravity and were hauled back up at the end of a rope. The line served the world's first train ferry which opened from Granton to Burntisland in 1850 but closed c.1876. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
Accession Number 1986/9
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/327759
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