Date: 13/08/2013

MANY New Town residents are blissfully unaware of the astonishing feat of Victorian engineering that hides just metres beneath the cobbles. The long-disused Scotland Street railway tunnel is among the city’s best kept secrets. [From Richard Buckby]

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Lost Edinburgh: The Scotland Street Tunnel

MANY New Town residents are blissfully unaware of the astonishing feat of Victorian engineering that hides just metres beneath the cobbles. The long-disused Scotland Street railway tunnel is among the city’s best kept secrets.

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North British diesel-hydraulic 0-4-0 D2747 waits while coal wagons are unloaded at Scotland Street goods yard in mid-1966, a year before closure. From 1850 to 1868, passenger trains from Edinburgh Canal Street station (adjacent, and at right angles to, Waverley station) to the train ferry at Granton passed through the tunnel mouth in the background. A cycle and foot path now follows the old rail route northwards from here towards Granton. [See image 23311]
Location: Scotland Street
Company: Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
//1966 David Spaven

Leaving Rodney Street Tunnel southbound on 8 January the walker/cyclist emerges into the former Scotland Street station and goods depot, now a landscaped area, with King George V Park just off to the right. Straight ahead is the sealed north portal of the much longer Scotland Street Tunnel, through which early EL&N trains were rope hauled from Canal Street (now Waverley) under the New Town [see image 5876].
Location: Scotland Street
Company: Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
08/01/2013 John Furnevel

Close up of the north portal of the 1847 Scotland Street Tunnel, seen from the old goods station in January 2013 - now forming part of a basketball court. The west side of Scotland Street itself overlooks the scene, with the exit onto Royal Crescent running off to the right. [See image 5876]
Location: Scotland Street
Company: Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
08/01/2013 John Furnevel