We received a message from Scottish Rugby that will be of interest to those residents who stay adjacent to BT Murrayfield’s East Stand. There is to be work, as follows:
The City Centre West to East Link project moved a step closer after Scottish Government ministers approved the Redetermination Order that reallocates the road space. The City Council had previously made the relevant Traffic Regulation Order. The Scottish Government required a minor alteration to the cycle way on Roseburn Gardens.
The case details can be found here:
http://dpea.scotland.gov.uk/CaseDetails.aspx?id=119991
For more on this from the Community Council type "CCWEL" or "cycleway" in the Search box above
We recently spotted that the John Muir Way passes through the Murrayfield CC area, taking in the eastern boundary of Carricknowe Golf Course, as well as Baird Drive and Balgreen Avenue.
The John Muir Way runs from Dunbar to Helensburgh (215 km), so there is sensibly a sign for it below the Rest and be Thankful on Corstorphine Hill.
https://johnmuirway.org/route/south-queensferry-edinburgh/
Photo credit (c) John Yellowlees
According to Edinburgh Rugby:
... our contractors are behind in their schedule and we have asked them to undertake some weekend work over the next fortnight to seek to make up time. The work is as follows:
18/19 July – Sat / Sun 8am to 6pm; and 25/26 July – Sat / Sun 8am to 6pm.
We will remind our contractors to keep noise to a minimum as we appreciate how important weekends are to
Resources about the Caledonian Railway keep popping up. Since the Roseburn Path was part of it, as detailed in Rosie Bell's guided walk that we produced a few weeks ago, we thought we would share a couple.
Kenneth Williamson has a large collection of historical photographs of lines, engines and stations on his site trainbuff.net.
The route to Leith and Granton is one of several fly-by's produced by freelance digital illustrator, Andy Arthur
The contractors working on the Coltbridge Viaduct, Barhale, have also dug out and re-pointed the headwall of the old mill's tail-lade culvert, via which water would have returned to the river after driving the mill.
Photo credit: (c) John Riddell
PC Sam Davison says:
"I'm pleased to say we now have a Station assistant at Corstorphine allowing the front counter to be open on a regular basis. I thought it would be helpful to put together the opening times as the hours are not the same each week."
He goes on to say that the dates and times can be subject to change at short notice. You can download the opening times under Useful downloads