Edinburgh Trams

The Trams to Newhaven project has reached a major milestone after laying the final piece of track connecting Edinburgh’s existing tram system to the new line.

Learning from the mistakes of the past is a common theme for the project team delivering the £207.3 million Edinburgh Trams to Newhaven line. The first phase of the trams project began operating in May 2014 after six years of disruption and a long-running dispute between the council and contra

The final sections of Trams to Newhaven track in Edinburgh are soon to be laid as the project prepares for the electrification of the full line. Energisation of newly installed overhead lines during November and December will allow a testing and commissioning period to begin at the start of 2023.

The Edinburgh Tram Inquiry is set to exceed £13 million in costs. A projection from Transport Scotland indicates that the cost will reach £13,100,812 by the end of this financial year.

The historic London Road clock has returned home after 15 years in storage and following its full restoration, as part of the Trams to Newhaven project. The clock, which began life on Waverley Bridge in 1857 before being moved to the West End in 1896, was eventually placed at the roundabout on Londo

Edinburgh's Leith Walk will reopen to two-way traffic between Pilrig Street and London Road from Monday, marking a key milestone for the Trams to Newhaven project.

The £207 million project to extend Edinburgh's tram network to Newhaven has marked a major milestone with the largest concrete pour to date.

More than 3km of track – 70% of the total to be laid – is now in the ground as part of the Trams to Newhaven project, which remains on schedule to begin revenue services in spring 2023, delivered within the £207.3 million budget. The main construction work on three of the eight new

A new phase of work on the Trams to Newhaven project is set to begin, as the scheme continues to take shape along the route.

As the Trams to Newhaven project marks the two-year point and remains on track for opening for revenue service in Spring 2023, the City of Edinburgh Council is looking back over the progress made so far.

A first glimpse has been revealed of what people living in Leith up to 700 years ago might have looked like.

Another major expansion of the Edinburgh tram network is being considered as part of a ten-year transport and mobility transformation plan.

Seven years after it began, the long-running inquiry into the Edinburgh trams construction fiasco has now taken longer than the delayed network took to build.

The City of Edinburgh Council has unveiled revise concept designs for the development of Stevedore Place as part of the Trams to Newhaven project after working with representatives of the local community.

Work to construct the Trams to Newhaven route is well under way with the first tracks being laid in Leith.