The story shown below appears in the March Spurtle (Issue 359).
We contacted CCG for comment on 19 February. Their response arrived just after the paper had gone to press 5 days later.
In CCG’s reply on 24 February, a named representative of the company acknowledged human error as the reason for the 2-month delay in registering CCG as a Considerate Constructor at the Powderhall site.
As you read this, advance copies of the March Spurtle are already spreading across the barony like potholes fleeing a Council roadmender in advance of the budget deadline.
Issue 359 starts with news of an appeal, continues with calls for better signage, and concludes with a dodo and voters on floaters.
Passing through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0RtQRnZwSw
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Books n’ Cups, on Raeburn Place in Stockbridge, is consistently busy. This success puzzles even some regular customers.
Lacking the elegant Scandi minimalism of Edinburgh’s coffee elite, the space, with its exposed brickwork, leather seating and general ‘homely’ feel, is reminiscent of a pre-Third Wave ‘coffee cave’ circa 2005.
The second of 2 pre-application consultations was held yesterday afternoon to discuss the future of Centrum and BUPA Houses at 108–16 Dundas Street.
Dakota Hotels proposes adapting a previously consented plan for housing here (Issue 325) to create a 143-bedroom hotel (maximum occupancy c.250 people).
Dear Spurtle,
For the second time in a just over a quarter, I am impelled to write to correct a transport-related Spurtle article.
While it is correct that the railway line past the site was used for passenger services until 1917, the statement that 'from 1970 to 2016, the line was used to transport compacted waste from here to a landfill site in Dunbar' is, unfortunately, rubbish.
As local historian Andy Arthur has related in his article about the Powderhall Waste Destructor, the recently demolished 'compactor' was opened in 1971 as an incinerator, with facilities added to take some waste to landfill. In 1986, the incinerator was shut down due to a public campaign, and it was only in 1989 that the 'Binliner' rail service, initially to Kaimes on the Edinburgh–Carstairs line, started removing compacted waste from the site.
Photos on the RailScot website show the absence of facilities in 1986, with the old passenger platforms in place; in 1989, with the rail transfer facility under construction; and later in 1989, in operation. Waste transfer to Dunbar started in 1997, when the Kaimes landfill site had filled up with Dunedin's detritus.
Before I get back to curating my collection of historic EDC and CEC bin bags, I thought readers might be interested to know of something that did happen close to Powderhall in 1970, namely the crash at Chancellot Mills, in which two Type 4 locomotives met head-on, with dramatic results but no casualties.
David Sterratt
A commemorative Red Wheel was officially unveiled today at the western gable end of Powderhall Stables on Broughton Road.
On a sparkling February afternoon, local notables, enthusiasts and press gathered to mark the spot as a place of special importance in transport history.
The education and arts trust Out of the Blue (OOTB) has entered into a rent-free pre-lease agreement with the Council while it tests infrastructure, systems and processes at the refurbished Powderhall Stables.
After many delays, the project to upgrade and ‘plug in’ the former waste-transfer station offices was completed late last year.