Waverley Station, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

14948

Title

Waverley Station, Edinburgh

Description

An aerial view of Waverley Station and the railway line as it cuts through Princes Street Gardens. On one side of this division are Princes Street and the regular street pattern of the New Town contrasting with the Old Town and the Royal Mile.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1961

Size

20.3 x 24.9 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.

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