{"id":862164,"date":"2026-03-31T08:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/862164\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:19:23","slug":"edinburgh-city-centre-police-incident-blocks-trams-in-early-morning-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/862164\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh city centre police incident blocks trams in early morning ‘disruption’"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘We apologise for any inconvenience’\"Trams<\/p>\n

Trams were only running between the airport and West End(Image: Peter Trimming \/ The Trams are Coming)<\/p>\n

A police incident in Edinburgh’s city centre<\/a> saw trams blocked on Tuesday morning. Services were only running between the airport <\/a>and West End in the early hours of March 31.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh Trams<\/a> issued an update to passengers at around 4.56am, as they apologised for ‘any inconvenience’. Full service resumed at around 5.55am.<\/p>\n

The exact nature of the incident is not yet known. Edinburgh Trams said there may be ‘extended wait times’ as they adjusted back to the timetable.<\/p>\n

Edinburgh Trams said: “Due to a Police Incident on Princes Street, we are only running from Airport to West End.<\/p>\n

“Ticket acceptance is in place with Lothian Buses on services 16 from Newhaven to West End and vice versa. Updates will follow.<\/p>\n

“We apologise for any inconvenience to your journey.”<\/p>\n

They later added: “UPDATE AT 05:55: Full service has resumed, there will be extended wait times until we get back to our timetable on this Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

“Once again, please accept our apologies for any disruption to your journey this morning.”<\/p>\n

Police Scotland have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n

Join <\/strong>Edinburgh Live’s Whatsapp Community here<\/strong><\/a> and get the latest news sent <\/strong>straight to your messages.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘We apologise for any inconvenience’ Trams were only running between the airport and West End(Image: Peter Trimming \/…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,13570,4884,530,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-862164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edinburgh","tag-britain","tag-edinburgh","tag-edinburgh-trams","tag-great-britain","tag-police-scotland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116322813291043642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862164","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=862164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}