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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
National
Jamie Calder

Has the Princes Street blaze revealed the true value of Edinburgh's trams?

Trams have been disrupted after a fire on Princes Street (Image: City of Edinburgh Council)

TRAMS were not an unusual sight on the roads of Scotland's cities in the 1950s. But by the 1960s, all networks apart from Glasgow had been lost, with the final service, Glasgow's, to close in 1962.

It was 51 years until the ding of a tram bell was heard again, returning to Edinburgh in 2014 after a long, costly and politically contentious construction period.

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