What is recorded here

Castlebarns Steps hold a twentieth-century electricity sub station beneath layers of twenty-first-century graffiti and tags. The road carries traffic past the steps while the hidden chamber continues transforming regional power into usable light. Those markings turn an ordinary utility into a canvas where anonymous hands argue, joke or declare themselves across decades.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, King Stables Road, Castlebarns Steps as Electricity Sub Station (20th Century), Graffiti(s) (21st Century), Tag(s) (21st Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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