Booking Hall, booking office, from south east
SC 358526
Description Booking Hall, booking office, from south east
Catalogue Number SC 358526
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 9535
Scope and Content The former Booking Office, Booking Hall, Waverley Station, Edinburgh Waverley Station was designed by James Bell, chief engineer for the North British Railway, in 1868-74 to replace an earlier station on the same site. At the time of opening, its 13-acre glass roof was one of the largest in the world. The varnished wooden central booking office was removed from the Booking Hall in a partial remodelling of the station in 1970. During the Victorian 'railway mania' of the 1840s, a line was built through Princes Street Gardens to the new Waverley Station, and a new line constructed from Berwick. This, in turn, encouraged the growth of shops and hotels in Princes Street. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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