General view (enhanced for publication) of Waverley Station and the North Bridge c.1908. Sir William Arrol and Company carried out the work on the North Bridge to a design by Blyth and Westland of Edi ...
SC 349213
Description General view (enhanced for publication) of Waverley Station and the North Bridge c.1908. Sir William Arrol and Company carried out the work on the North Bridge to a design by Blyth and Westland of Edinburgh
Date c. 1908
Collection Records of Sir William Arrol and Company Ltd, civil engineers, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 349213
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 93379 PO
Scope and Content General view of North Bridge and Waverley Station, Edinburgh, from the east Waverley Station lies beneath the wide span of the northorth Bridge. It was designed by James Bell, chief engineer for the northorth British Railway, in 1868-74 to replace an earlier station on the same site, and was extensively reconstructed 1892-1902. This shows, in the course of construction, the glass transverse valley roofs, carried on lattice girders supported by slim iron columns, which were designed to cover the station's 12 lines of through-track and three wide platforms. When Waverley Station opened after its reconstruction, its 13-acre glass roof was one of the largest in the world, and its eastern signal box was one of the largest manual boxes ever constructed, with 260 signal levers in one continuous frame. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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