{"id":426537,"date":"2025-09-15T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426537\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:06:29","slug":"edinburgh-trams-set-to-close-key-section-of-rail-line-for-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/426537\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Trams set to close key section of rail line for 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Edinburgh Trams have revealed that services will not run between Picardy Place and Haymarket to make way for the replacement of track points at Shandwick Place.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The essential works will begin on Saturday, September 27, and continue until the end of service on Monday, September 29.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The line operator confirmed that during the three days of scheduled work tram stops at St Andrew Square, Princes Street and West End will be closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25468246.keir-starmer-breaks-silence-mandelson-epstein-love-emails\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer breaks silence on Mandelson-Epstein &#8216;love&#8217; emails<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, Edinburgh Trams said that services on either side of the closure, between Edinburgh Airport and Haymarket, and Newhaven and Picardy Place, will continue to run.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A ticket acceptance agreement on certain Lothian Buses and Scotrail services is in place to help minimise disruption, the tram operator said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Tram tickets will be accepted on the following services:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Lothian Buses\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Service 4 between Haymarket (Dalry Road) and Leith Street\n  <\/li>\n<li>Service 25 between Haymarket (Dalry Road) and Leith Street\n  <\/li>\n<li>Service Airlink 100 from Waverley Bridge to Airport (not from Airport)\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  <strong>ScotRail<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All ScotRail train services from Haymarket to Waverley Station.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  Marilena Papadopoulou, Edinburgh Trams head of projects and renewals, said staff will be on hand at key locations and at closed stops throughout the temporary shutdown to help customers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/17627538.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: \u201cThese works are part of a wider programme of asset renewals which allow us to maintain and modernise the system, and we\u2019re doing all we can to keep the city moving once they are underway.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cMembers of our team will be on hand at key locations and at closed stops throughout the temporary shutdown to help customers complete their onward journeys.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe ask customers to allow a little extra time for their journeys and would like to thank them in advance for their understanding while we undertake these necessary works.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Trams have revealed that services will not run between Picardy Place and Haymarket to make way for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-426537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115208938039464760","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}