Tales of the people who built the trams

Book will document the stories of workers

Tale of the people who built the trams

The tram project is the largest infrastructure project undertaken in Edinburgh, and perhaps Scotland, in living memory.

It’s a complex and lengthy journey which, by its conclusion, will have involved thousands of workers from across the UK and overseas, in a variety of disciplines.

To document this historic process, a book has been commissioned to record the work the people who built the trams.

Edinburgh writer and award-winning journalist Kenny Kemp, who is compiling the illustrated journal, said: “The book will be a fascinating story of the skills required to undertake this major engineering project and is one that is too important to be lost.

“There’s a great deal of humour in dealing with the day-to-day challenges, often in the filthiest of conditions, and I hope the text will reflect this and be something of a souvenir for all those who have had a hand in building the trams.”