Archaeology Notes

Event ID 746287

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SW 189.00 centred 2470 7355

NT27SW 189.01 NT 2475 7336 Offices

NT27SW 189.02 NT 24655 73582 Entrance Screen

NT27SW 189.03 NT 2470 7325 Railway Terminus (early)

For (integral) Caledonian Hotel see NT27SW 110

This station was built by the Caledonian Rly. to succeed an interim wooden structure in Lothian Road; it opened in 1894 and was universally known as the 'Caley'; the associated Caledonian Hotel (NT27SW 110) opened in 1903. The station was resignalled in 1937 but retained semaphore signals to the end of its life. It is the largest closed station in Scotland, regular passenger traffic having ceased on 6 September 1965, following the construction of the Duff Street connection (NT 23 72) to allow direct access from the former Caledonian Rly system to the Waverley Station (NT27SE 221).

The building was designed by Peddie and Kinnear and cost £120,000. There were no centre-roads, but five carriage-cleaning sidings and an electric generator were situated on the N side; a signalbox and a turntable were situated beyond the platform-ends.

G Daniels and L Dench 1980; A J Mullay 1991

Demolished 1967-8.

Information from RCAHMS (DRE) August 1994.

Edinburgh, (temporary) Lothian Road station, opened (Caledonian Rly) 15 February 1848.

Edinburgh, (replacement) Princes Street station, opened (Caledonian Rly) 2 May 1870 (NT27SW 189.03); closed (British Railways) 6 September 1965.

R V J Butt 1995.