Princes Street area page 12 |
Tramworks |
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At this stage, pedestrians can walk around freely but there's no traffic at all - which lends the scene a ghost town appearance. The tramworks excavations have been neatly filled in and topped with black tarmac. (The bus lanes were originally green.) | |
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Castle Terrace above, King's Stables Road below. This is the west end of this road which connects the Princes Street end of Lothian Road to the Grassmarket. | |
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Princes Street opposite the foot of Lothian Road. Much new plumbing in evidence under the surface. These blue pipes really look the business. | |
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Tramworks
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90m to the east at Princes Street's junction with South Charlotte Street. The top of the Caley hotel can be glimpsed behind St John's church. The orange digger waits until it's time to fill in the trences again. |
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Peering between the wires of the fence to get a closer look reveals two makeshift bridges reminciscent of some 3D games. | |
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William Pitt the younger is the statue at the junction of George Street and Frederick Street. (George Street runs parallel to Princes Street.) | |
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Three rather incongruous features interrupt the waves of glass panels covering the railway station: a gold painted lamp post, a balustrade and a stairway. | |
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Taken more than 30 years after my first picture of the ramp on page 1 of this section. |
