Edinburgh Corporation
Dates
| / /1893 | Edinburgh Street Tramways Company Edinburgh Corporation 11.5 miles of the Edinburgh Street Tramways Companys lines within the Edinburgh boundary are bought by Edinburgh Corporation and then leased to Dick Kerr and Co Ltd. |
| / /1897 | Edinburgh Corporation Buys Hanover Street and Comley Bank cable hauled tramways from Edinburgh Northern Tramways Company. Both leased to Dick Kerr. |
| / /1898 | Edinburgh Street Tramways Company Edinburgh Corporation Portobello route bought by Edinburgh Corporation. |
| / /1906 | Edinburgh Corporation Act passed to allow extension of Liberton Tramway on to Eskbank, Dalkeith and Bonnyrigg. Act re-newed in 1911 but lapse later. |
| / /1909 | Colinton Tramways Company Formed to extend Edinburgh Corporation tramway from Craiglockhart to Colinton on reserved tracks. Company does not build line. |
| / /1909 | Edinburgh Corporation Construction of Gorgie Cattle Market begins. |
| / /1910 | Edinburgh Corporation Gorgie Cattle Market Branch (Caledonian Railway) Gorgie Cattle Market Branch (North British Railway) Corporation asks railways to built branches to the new Gorgie Cattle Market. |
| / /1913 | Edinburgh Corporation
Gorgie Cattle Market Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Gorgie Cattle Market Branch (North British Railway) Agreement between Edinburgh Corporation with the Caledonian Railway and North British Railway over the Gorgie Slaughter Houses. |
| / /1918 | Edinburgh Corporation Plan fails for a tramway from Comley Bank to Port Edgar, South Queensferry. |
| / /1919 | Edinburgh Corporation Starts to convert cable hauled tramways to electric. |
| 01/07/1919 | Edinburgh and District Tramways Co Ltd Lease of tramways expires and Edinburgh Corporation takes over directly. |
| / /1920 | Leith Corporation Tramways subsumed by Edinburgh Corporation on the extension of Edinburghs boundaries to include Leith. |
| 20/06/1922 | Edinburgh Corporation Pilrig to Liberton tramway re-opened as electric. Work took 53 weeks. |
| / /1926 | Edinburgh Corporation Liberton tramway extended to Colinton. |
| / /1928 | Musselburgh and District Electric Light and Traction Co Ltd Levenhall to Port Seton closed, Joppa to Levenhall services taken over by Edinburgh Corporation. |
| / /1931 | Musselburgh and District Electric Light and Traction Co Ltd Joppa to Levenhall bought by Edinburgh Corporation. Company continues as electricity supplier and runs buses. |
| / /1934 | Edinburgh Corporation Provisional order allows building of further tramways, only Braids to Fairmilehead built. |
| / /1939 | Edinburgh Corporation Tramway from Inverleith Gardens to Crewe Toll under contruction, but never completed. |
| / /1950 | Edinburgh Corporation Shrubhill workshops ceases building new trams. |
| / /1952 | Edinburgh Corporation Tramways start to be closed, being replaced by buses. |
| / /1956 | Edinburgh Corporation All tramways closed having been replaced by buses. |
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