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A New Station For Edinburgh

Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 3:54 pm
by STAFFORDA4
Whilst browsing a friend's shelves recently when house-sitting in Edinburgh, I discovered "A Civic Survey And Plan For Edinburgh", a local Govt volume from 1947.
Amongst the usual forward-planning for schools and houses etc there is a section on "Proposals for Communications-Railways" which details a suggestion that there be a "combined long-distance station on two levels at Morrison Street; the upper terminal for LMS traffic and the lower for through LNER traffic."
Waverley was to be retained only as a covered-in regional suburban station. A new tunnel was proposed beneath The Meadows to connect Morrison Street with the ECML at Niddrie

Is anyone aware of what if anything further was produced from this report as I have never seen anything in the usual railway-enthusiast press?

Re: A New Station For Edinburgh

Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:43 am
by Hatfield Shed
Rather glad that idea never got implemented as this would have been a far greater loss than the Euston arch. Our only major UK railway station sited amidst a landscape of extinct volcanos with significant glacial modification. You really couldn't make it up.

Re: A New Station For Edinburgh

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 2:39 am
by West_Stanley
Slightly off topic, but can someone name me all of the stations between Edinburgh Waverly and Berwick upon Tweed?

Re: A New Station For Edinburgh

Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:19 pm
by 52D
West Stanley,do you want passenger stations only or goods stations and junctions as well. There are a number of goods only locations especially thinking about the Peases Lie which used to load sugar beet and stable pw stock when work was nearby.