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Lothian Road Station 1840s - |
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Lothian Road station was immediately to the south of the site on which the Caledonian Railway built Princes Street Station and the Caledonian Hotel. The station continued in use as a goods depot until recently [around 1990?]. It is now the City end of the Western Approach Road, which follows the tracks of the old railway from Lothian Road to the west towards Murrayfield. 2 |
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It was from Lothian Road station that Edinburgh's first through service to London operated, from February 1848. This service took the western route to London, via Carlisle and the Midlands. The service commenced two years before the North British Railway completed their link between Edinburgh and London down the East Coast Route to Kings Cross station. |
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1: 'Yesterday's Railways: Edinburgh' Publ: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society ISBN 0 9508595 0 8 |
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