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B900

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B900
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From:  Queensferry Road (NT224743)
To:  Great Junction Street (NT266761)
Distance:  3.3 miles (5.3 km)
Meets:  A90, B901, A901
Highway Authorities

Edinburgh

Traditional Counties

Midlothian

Route outline (key)
B900 Link in Edinburgh

The B900 is an urban B-road to the north of Edinburgh city centre. While there have been substantial changes to the streetscape of the route over the last century, the B900 has not deviated from the route laid out in 1922, which is quite unusual for such an urban road.

Raeburn Place

It starts at traffic lights on the A90 Queensferry Road next to the Craigleith Retail Park and heads east along the largely residential Craigleith Road. The road is lined with a mixture of terraced and semi-detached properties, most dating from the first half of the 20th century, but interspersed with a handful of more modern homes. The houses on the left give way to trees, first shielding a former hospital site and then a cemetery, before reaching the roundabout at Comely Bank. Continuing ahead onto Comely Bank Road, the B900 passes a small shopping area where a left turn leads up a long drive to the magnificent building of Fettes College. Comely Bank Road kinks right and then becomes Raeburn Place, the bustling suburban shopping centre of Stockbridge.

A sharper kink to the right leads down to the Stock Bridge itself, which carries the road over the Water of Leith to a signalised crossroads. The road TOTSOs left here into Hamilton Place, which heads north east past more shops and businesses. Another right kink leads onto Henderson Row, which has a much more urban than suburban feel, with tall terraces set back behind tiny front yards and interspersed with grand public buildings. Many of these terraces are undoubtedly tenement blocks, or have been converted to flats rather than being single houses, but the architecture is still on a grand scale. Eyre Crescent leads off of Eyre Place, the form of the building somewhat spoilt by the modern flats that have been built in the 'square' in front.

Eyre Place is a lot more sinuous than the road has been so far, and is laid with setts. It winds round to a fork forming a one-way system. Eastbound traffic bears left into Canon Street to TOTSO right with Canon Lane immediately before reaching the B901, Canonmills. The line of the B900 lies to the right - but this turn was prohibited, meaning that there was no obvious way to get back to the B900. The sign has now disappeared, but do not count on that meaning that a right turn is now permitted. Westbound traffic simply crosses the B901 at traffic lights to continue into Eyre Place and so reach the western end of the one-way system.

Continuing north east from the B901 along Broughton Road, the B900 crosses the old Rodney Street railway tunnel (now a footpath) and passes between more tall terraces of tenements, but no longer showing the fine architecture found further west. The tall buildings come to a rather abrupt end at the junction with East Claremont Street, where Broughton Road curves to the left a little and trees line the road, giving the route a much more spacious feeling. It passes a cemetery before crossing Pilrig Street at traffic lights and running along Bonnington Road. There is now a real mix of homes, shops and industrial units as the route winds the last half mile to end at traffic lights on the A901 Great Junction Street in Leith.




B900
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Road Junction on the A90 - Geograph - 1046618.jpgEd-stock-br1.jpgRaeburn Place (C) Richard Webb - Geograph - 3948012.jpg
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