Scotland Street
Scotland Street Tunnel : Richard Love, chair of the Broughton History Society and John Cameron.
Remarks by John Cameron were as follows :
'For a railway that was open for only twenty years, Scotland Street Tunnel commands a remarkable hold on people's subconscious awareness of Edinburgh's transport heritage. Robert Louis Stevenson recalled that the 'sight of the train shooting out of its dark maw with the two guards upon the brake, the thought of its length and the many ponderous edifices and thoroughfares above, were certainly things of paramount impressiveness to a young mind.' The Edinburgh Metro proposal of the 1980s envisaged its reuse regardless of the steep gradient that had been its undoing, and Alexander McCall Smith gave us the false memory of the Edinburgh Underground, triggering surprise among several experts unmindful that its publication date in The Scotsman was 1 April 2011. For myself I rather like the setting's transformation to a children's playground, rejoicing in the name of Scotland Yard and echoing the location in King George V Park of a short-lived Victorian pleasure-ground.'
Location: Scotland Street
Original line: Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
Photographer: John Yellowlees
Contact photographer: John Yellowlees
Date: 07/08/2023
Image number: 86818
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