Leith page 19
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| Looking west from the east end of Leith Links. Claremont Park is the road running along the left side. | ||
| 300m further east is this railway siding on the north side of Seafield Road. The wagon bears the legend English Welsh & Scottish Railway. | ||
| Rust in peace as Neil Young would say. It's obviously been a while since this train went anywhere. | ||
| SLEEPING BEAUTY! proclaims the bilboard to passing motorists on Seafield Road. The train sleeps in the siding but its beauty lies in the eye of the beholder - should the beholder be impressed by heavy metal engineering. | ||
| The engineering is sufficiently innovative to be patented. The text is cast in steel. | ||
| A few metres east is the entrance to Seafield Crematorium and Cemetery. A footpath passes above the entrance on a former railway line. | ||
| About 110m east of the the crematorium entrance is this barely used footbridge over the branch railway line. A few paces away is a crossing making climbing unnecessary. | ||
| climbing the steps onto the bridge affords views. This shot shows Seafield Road through the rusty ironwork. | ||
| This is the view west from the bridge, showing the rail crossing and the tenements at the corner of Seafield Street - which leads to the Eastern General Hospital. | ||
| A familiar view to motorists heading along Seafield Road from Leith to Portobello. The triangular hill on the horizon is North Berwick Law. | ||
| Looking back west along to the tenements beside Seafield Street. There's a freight train - perhaps taking imported coal to Cockenzie Power Station, and a cyclist headed east. | ||
| A long lens view to Arthur's Seat looking over the houses at Abercorn and Willowbrae and the patchy slopes of Whinny Hill. | ||
| Zoomed in a little more on the patches of gorse on Whinny Hill. On Arthur's Seat there's a few climbers on the summit and coming back down. They're only a few pixels high in this shot but they stand out silhouetted against the horizon. | ||
| Not far from Ocean Terminal is this spot where the path from Crewe Toll ends beside Lindsay Road. |
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Dave Henniker