Balmoral Hotel and Waverley Station, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

12649

Title

Balmoral Hotel and Waverley Station, Edinburgh

Description

Trees overhang the railway lines as a train moves from under the Waverley Bridge between the platforms of the Station. The Balmoral Hotel is nearby. The monuments of Calton Hill can be seen in the distance.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2007

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Edinburgh Waverley is the second largest mainline railway station in the UK. There were originally three stations on the site, serving three separate railway companies including the Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway whose trains ran through a tunnel underneath Princes Street and New Town to another Station at Scotland Street. In 1866 North British Railway absorbed the other two companies and proceeded to amalgamate the three existing stations. Construction of this single station, much of which remains, was completed in 1874.

The original Waverley Bridge, a stone arch structure, was replaced during the extensive remodelling of the station in the late 1860's and early 1870's. This second bridge was in turn replaced by the current bridge which was completed in 1896. The vegetable market displaced by the construction of the second bridge was replaced by an indoor site designed by Robert Morham. This was demolished in 1974 and replaced by Waverley shopping centre, later called Princes Mall.

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Princes Street

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