Railway Tunnel, East Trinity Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 25 February 2000. Tunnel.

Railway Tunnel, East Trinity Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
tangled-hammer-auburn
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
25 February 2000
Type
Tunnel
Address
Railway Tunnel, East Trinity Road, Edinburgh, EH5 3EY
OS grid reference
NT 250 765
Coordinates
55.97609, -3.2033
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Railway Tunnel on East Trinity Road in Edinburgh was designed by Grainger and Miller around 1840. This impressive tunnel carries the former Edinburgh, Granton and Leith railway line, which is now a cycle track, beneath the back gardens on the west side of York Road and East Trinity Road. The tunnel features a horseshoe-shaped opening, which is flanked by battered pilasters. The entablatures of these pilasters continue as parapets above. The structure is made of rusticated coursed sandstone, with the spandrels treated radially.

Local climate

Railway Tunnel, East Trinity Road, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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