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General view from ENE showing station with North Bridge in background
SC 794548
Description General view from ENE showing station with North Bridge in background
Date 6/1987
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 794548
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Train at Waverley Station, Edinburgh This shows the east end of the station from Regent Road, looking south-west, in June 1989, before the electrification of the East Coast Main Line, which was completed in 1991. The train in the foreground is a typical pre-electrification Edinburgh-London train of the period. The train is a so-called High Speed Train, capable of a speed of 125 miles an hour (c.200km per hour), and introduced on the East Coast Main Line in 1977. The bridge in the background is the North Bridge, rebuilt in the 1890s to allow Waverley Station to be modernised. This station was opened in 1846 by the North British and Edinburgh & Glasgow Railways as a terminus. It was remodelled in the mid-1860s, and again in 1892-1902, to give increased capacity, on both occasions by the North British Railway. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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