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Wester Hailes, new Union Canal. P1 P2 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 or P10

U-canal_w-hailes_rd.jpg (124898 bytes) W H Canal 1
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This new bridge carries Wester Hailes road across the forthcoming Union Canal reinstatement between the Murray Burn and Dumbryden Road.
U-canal_w-hailes_rd2.jpg (163284 bytes) W H Canal 2
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This is how it looks facing north towards Corstorphine. Soon, the residents of Murrayburn and Wester Hailes will have a canal running through their midst.
U-canal_westburn.jpg (208060 bytes) Westburn
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The new section between Wester Hailes Road and Calder Road. To the left is Westburn district; beyond that is the A720 Edinburgh bypass.
westburn_wire.jpg (183504 bytes) 2D Trolley
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No need to go to trendy city-centre galleries for modern sculpture. This trolley is flatter than a very flat thing and adorns the west bank of the waterway to be.
hailes_park1.jpg (195026 bytes) Hailes Park
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A former landfill site between Dumbryden Road on the left, and Kingsnowe Place / Longstone Street on the right. Photographed from the bank of the Union Canal which runs along the park's south end.
U-canal000903-1832-39.jpg (126548 bytes) W H Canal 3
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Work in progress on the Union Canal as seen from Wester Hailes Road looking east. Murrayburn Road is to the right, behind a fence. Further along is the yellow roof of the Shell filling station next to the roundabout at the junction of Murrayburn Gate.
U-canal000903-1852-54.jpg (152420 bytes) W H Canal 4
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The canal-to-be as seen looking east from the footbridge over Hailesland Road.
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Facing the opposite direction, looking west along Hailesland Road from near the junction with Dumbryden Drive.

Wester Hailes, new Union Canal. P1 P2 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 or P10