Three new transport wheels unveiled in Edinburgh [The Edinburgh Reporter]





Date: 30/11/2021

The first at Claverhouse Army Reserve Centre was officially unveiled by Baroness Goldie, Minister of State for Defence before a small group of people invited by the National Transport Trust (NTT) including NTT Vice President John Yellowlees and Deputy Chairman Jerry Swift.


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Here is Baroness Goldie, Minister of State at the Ministry of Defence, after unveiling the Red Wheel at the former railway hotel built by the Duke of Buccleuch in 1838. The building became HMS Claverhouse.
Location: Granton Hotel
Company: Duke of Buccleuch
26/11/2021 John Yellowlees
HMS Claverhouse was originally a hotel opened by the Duke of Buccleuch on Granton Square for the Granton - Burntisland ferry service. It was requisitioned for the Royal Navy in 1939.
Location: Granton Hotel
Company: Duke of Buccleuch
15/11/2021 John Yellowlees
Debs Newman and Rob Carpenter of the Holyrood Distillery unveiling the Red Wheel yesterday. This was a warehouse of the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway 'Innocent' line, opened 1831. The city's first railway, built to carry coal and agricultural goods. Horse and rope hauled until 1846. Closed 1968.
Location: St Leonards
Company: Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
26/11/2021 John Yellowlees


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