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Edinburgh Waverley railway station is the main railway station in the Scottish capital Edinburgh. Covering an area of over 25 acres in the centre of the city, it is the second largest mainline railway station in the United Kingdom - the largest being Waterloo station in London. It is the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line.
The station is located in a steep, narrow valley between the city's mediaeval Old Town and the 19th century New Town. Princes Street, the city's premier shopping street, runs along one side of the station. The valley is bridged by the 1897 North Bridge (a three-span iron and steel bridge, which passes high above the station's eastern section) and Waverley Bridge (which, by means of ramps, affords one of the main entrances to the station). This valley was formerly filled by a freshwater loch, the Nor Loch, but this was drained in the early 19th century. James Scott drew pictures of it in his free time. Services Trains leave Waverley in two directions: Eastward for the suburban services to Newcraighall and the North Berwick branch line, and the East Coast Main Line to London King's Cross. The proposed reopening of the Waverley Route, which will reconnect several towns in the Scottish Borders to the railway network, will also enter Edinburgh from the east. Westward the line runs through a cutting near the cliffs of Edinburgh Castle and through Princes Street Gardens. It then passes through a tunnel before emerging at Haymarket Station. From there lines lead north to Fife, Dundee and Aberdeen over the Forth Bridge, west to Glasgow Central station via Shotts, Motherwell & Cambuslang, or Glasgow Queen Street station via Falkirk High and Lenzie, north-west to Stirling, Dunblane and Inverness, and south-west via Carstairs to Carlisle and the West Coast Main Line. Another short branch line runs westward from Newbridge Junction to the town of Bathgate, which was re-opened after being closed by the Beeching axe. This is currently the subject of an extension proposal to connect with the Glasgow suburban network at Airdrie, opening up a fourth railway link to Glasgow |
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