Hundreds of people attended the launch of the new tram line from the top of Leith Walk to Newhaven today as it carried passengers for the first time – nine years after the first tram route opened in 2014.

Departing Picardy Place at 12pm, there was a sense of jubilation as locals boarded the tram to the sound of bagpipes with a local dance group performing a specially devised ‘tram ballet’ outside the tram stop. Shortly before departure council leaders joined local school pupils and tram staff to cut the celebratory ribbon as the tram made its maiden voyage down Leith Walk – 67 years after the last tram carrying passengers travelled down Leith Walk.