Waverley Bridge, Station, North British Station Hotel

Category

Library Item

Item no

8416

Title

Waverley Bridge, Station and the North British Station Hotel

Artist / maker

Inglis, Francis Caird

Date

1938

Size

22.9 x 29.5 cm

Type

Photograph

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 1860s and early 1870s. 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 Waverley Mall.

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