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Latitude: 55.9761 / 55°58'33"N
Longitude: -3.2033 / 3°12'11"W
OS Eastings: 325005
OS Northings: 676554
OS Grid: NT250765
Mapcode National: GBR 8L5.M7
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.R1TZ
Plus Code: 9C7RXQGW+CM
Entry Name: Railway Tunnel, East Trinity Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: East Trinity Road, Railway Tunnel
Listing Date: 25 February 2000
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394089
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46729
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, East Trinity Road, Railway Tunnel
ID on this website: 200394089
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Forth
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Railway tunnel
Grainger and Miller, circa 1840. Monumental tunnel, taking former Edinburgh, Granton and Leith railway line (now cycle track) under back gardens on W side of York Road and East Trinity Road. Horseshoe opening and tunnel. Rusticated coursed sandstone, radially treated in spandrels. Horseshoe opening to tunnel, flanked by battered pilasters, their entablatures continued as parapets above.
Grainger and Miller's plan shows the railway coming from Waverley (via the Scotland Street Tunnel), passing under the back gardens of Nos 3-9 York Road (then known as Tower Park Cottage, Trinity Villa and Myrtle Bank), and continuing directly to the Chain Pier, which was to be made into a harbour with dry dock, wet dock and break-water. In fact, after passing through the tunnel and under Lennox Row, the railway as built (for the Perth and Dundee Railway Company) curved round to Granton harbour, and the extensions to the Chain Pier were not built. An associated plan drawn up by George Angus shows the already existing houses in the path of, and immediately bordering the path of the proposed railway, and is annotated with 'deteriorations' in value to these houses. A plan of 1845 by Thomas Grainger shows a planned 'extension' running from the line of the railway to the Chain Pier.
Up-graded C(S) to B 17/10/01.
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