Transport Initiatives Edinburgh (TIE), responsible for delivering the troubled tram Edinburgh project in the UK, is seeking a temporary home for the CAF trams to be delivered from September.

Although work has begun on laying track that would allow the 40m trams to be stored at the depot at Gogar, TIE has confirmed it is in discussions over temporary storage, at a cost of around GBP1200 per month per tram, until the facility is ready at the end of the year.

Delays to infrastructure works have meant the 12 trams already built by CAF, have had to be stored at the firm's Spanish facility.

According to TIE, the BSC consortium is contractually obliged to meet the costs of storing the trams now under production 'until the depot at Gogar is ready'.