Historical Development in Transport- Blog

Historical of trams 

 

 

The trams were originally owned by The Edinburgh Street Tramways Company before they stopped operating in Edinburgh in 1956, after many years they came back into operation.

 

The reason for the decline of the trams was the big budget that was needed to run the trams around the city.

 

The trams operated in Edinburgh from 1871 to 1956 and resumed in 2014. The first travel transport was horse-drawn after a cable- haulage was discovered in the city. The first electric tramp was routed by Musselburgh in 1904 and Leith in 1905, the meeting point was Edinburgh cable tramps at Joppa and Pilrig. By 1920 Edinburgh Corporation took control of all Edinburgh tramps which were now electric. 

Trams in Edinburgh were explaining before the buses, but the trams were not the most comfortable as the journeys were short and were passing by shops, the horses were there but people didn't go on them as they were making the streets dirty with the horses waste and the people wanted to protect their shoes and dresses. 

Back in the day trams declined because of the buses coming to use, trams were short journey which was restricted by a cable. 

The trams stopped in Edinburgh by the decision to come to an end of the city’s 47 route miles of tram network appear in 1952, it took over 4 years to take apart and the official day fell on the 16^th of November 1956. 

 

The trams were reintroduced to Edinburgh because of the scheme that came to place to find the trams in Edinburgh.

 

A considerable part of the city of Edinburgh councils in 2001. This put forward a 35-kilometre tram network for which construction was authorised by Acts of the Scottish Parliament in 2006. 

 

 

The trams were reintroduced to give an easier and faster way for transport from the centre of the city to the airport and back and a transport which is more eco friendly.

 

 

Edinburgh Airport

Edinburgh airport was originally begun as an aerodrome during the first world war. The airfield 1918 became the RAF Turn house after the formation of the Royal Air Force. And it was until the start of the second World War. 

 

Turn house Aerodrome was the comment northerly British air defence base in World War 1 used by the Royal Flying corps. After Second World War in 1947, the airport was opened for commercial flights, the first commercial flight was operated by British European Airways service from London to Shetland and Edinburgh was one of the stop points of the flight.

In 1952 the runway of the airport was extended to 6000ft then after many years, the airport opened a new passenger terminal to provide a better commercial experience. In 1971 BAA became the owner of the airport and after many years of rebuilding the terminals the airport was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth 2 on 27 May 1977 and the opening for the public happened 2 days later.

The airport has the facilities after the war airport and after the war, they needed pilots, planes, conventional notes and restrictions for years. In the 80s the airport was still a domestic airport but at the end of the 1970s, the airfield became commercial but still was many years before it became an international airport. Then after a couple of years, the airport started more commercial flights as they are cheaper and by that, the airport was able to carry more customers at the same time. 

In 2012 the GIP took over the Edinburgh airports ownership from BAA which brought many new destinations, and passenger facilities to the airport and built a multimillion terminal expansion, which made the airport even more popular as of today the airport is the busiest airport in Scotland. 

 

The Edinburgh airport has grown a lot as they have a wide range of destinations to choose from and it’s close to the capital city of Scotland which most people will choose to travel from Edinburgh and the local areas, also a lot of tourists come to the airport to go and see Edinburgh city centre.

 

It was the busiest airport in Scotland in 2019, handling over 14.7 million passengers. It is also the sixth-busiest airport in the United Kingdom by total passengers in 2019. 

 

Edinburgh airport is owned by Global Infrastructure Partners is leading global, independent infrastructure investor. They employ around 750 staff with a further 700 across the squared.