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Edinburgh West

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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.
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The canal-to-be as seen looking east from the footbridge over Hailesland Road.
U-canal000903-1900-27.jpg (94215 bytes) W H Canal 5
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Facing the opposite direction, looking west along Hailesland Road from near the junction with Dumbryden Drive.

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