Heritage Locations

Scotland Street Tunnel Map. Scotland Street Tunnel. Fraser1111 Flickr The tunnel is just below street level at Scotland Street, but is 49 feet (15 m) below St Andrew Street and 37 feet (11 m) below Princes Street A long-disused railway tunnel which runs beneath the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland Street Tunnel was constructed in 1847 by engineers Thomas Grainger (1794 - 1852) and John Miller (1805-83) to serve a line which connected Canal Street Station on Princes Street with Granton Harbour.

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The tunnel is 1,052 yds long and carried a double track line under Colinton Tunnel This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson

Scotland Street Tunnel Portal, Edinburgh Kite Flickr

Scotland Street Tunnel City of Edinburgh Reports Images Videos Map This site is also discussed in the following issues of our members' magazine: Most people are unaware of the network of tunnels that lie under Edinburgh's cobbles, including the Scotland Street Tunnel and the Rodney Street Tunnel. A long-disused railway tunnel which runs beneath the New Town of Edinburgh, Scotland Street Tunnel was constructed in 1847 by engineers Thomas Grainger (1794 - 1852) and John Miller (1805-83) to serve a line which connected Canal Street Station on Princes Street with Granton Harbour.

Scottish trunk road network map Transport Scotland. Colinton Tunnel This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson First opened as Canonmills by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway, Scotland Street stood at the northern end of Scotland Street Tunnel that linked the city centre under the New Town to Canal Street

Heritage Locations. The tunnel is 1,052 yds long and carried a double track line under At 1000 yards long it was one of Scotland's longer railway tunnels