There's a really nice little exhibition about Edinburgh trams past and future in the St James centre. The display contains pictures ranging from the earliest horse drawn trams of 1871, which ran from Haymarket to Bernard Street, to the last tram run in 1956. We are told that the laying of the lines for the cable hauled trams in the 1880s and later the electric trams was an enormous disruption and went on for years. Plus ça change.

You can find lots of tram pictures and pictures of all sorts of Edinburgh related matters on this site.

In the St James centre exhibition there is a large map of the network and I homed in on this section, close to my heart.The red lines indicate the early horse drawn tram routes. I don't know to which point in time the tram service numbers relate but it's fascinating to see that most of the same numbers are still in use and pass along the same routes today.

The railway line shown crossing Leith Walk is still in use but the goods yard is now the sought after residential development of Dicksonfield.