TRAM tracks likely to be more than 100 years old have been discovered in Prestonpans.
ScottishPower workers have been working on Prestongrange Road since September and last Monday they came across the tracks.
Pictures taken by the East Lothian Courier show the edges of the tracks under the surface of Prestongrange Road, near Sam Burns' Yard, where workmen have been active.
A spokesperson for East Lothian Council said: “It seems very likely that these are tram lines relating to the Prestongrange site.
"Records show that the tramway was extended from Levenhall to Port Seton around 1909.
"There is a section at the museum site that was uncovered and can be safely visited and seen today.”
Dr DJ Johnston-Smith, historian and chair of Prestonpans Community Council, said: "After so much local heritage was lost in the 1960s and 1970s, it's always a rare treat when we are given these unusual little reminders of a nearly forgotten past.
"The tramcars only hurtled along our town's main thoroughfare for a relatively short period in the long history of Prestonpans, but just as in many other communities that lost this service as motor cars became more commonplace, I suspect their passing was lamented for many a year after they were gone."
"The map also shows a row of what were possibly miners' cottages on the S side of the surviving section of the tramway at Morrison's Haven.
"Musselburgh trams were ultimately taken over by Edinburgh Corporation. The section from Levenhall to Port Seton closed in 1928 when the services were replaced by motor buses.
"Electric trams continued to Levenhall from Musselburgh and Edinburgh until 1954. It is thought other sections of the tram track survive under tarmacadam."
