Foreveryoung

By weemusings

Shrubhill Depot

This shot was taken from Dryden Street looking through what remains of Shrubhill Depot.

For many decades until the 1990s, Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department, latterly Lothian Region Transport had a depot and workshop at Shrubhill, on the western side of Leith Walk, mid-way between Edinburgh and Leith.
The building at the rear of this depot once housed the engine that drove the cables for part of Edinburgh's cable tramways.
In later years it became a repair shop for Edinburgh's trams and buses.
Now some of the repair work has been outsourced and some is carried out at the depot in Annandale Street, about half a mile to the north-east of the old Shrubhill depot.


The area has been getting demolished for awhile now and despite numerous proposals to the council for redevelopment by various companies I don't think anything has been finalised yet?


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