Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station

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Edinburgh Waverley NatNational Rail
Edinburgh Waverley from the east
Edinburgh Waverley from the east
Data
Location in the network Long-distance train station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 18th
abbreviation EDB
location
City / municipality Edinburgh
Unitary Authority City of Edinburgh
Part of the country Scotland
Country United Kingdom
Coordinates 55 ° 57 ′ 7 ″  N , 3 ° 11 ′ 21 ″  W Coordinates: 55 ° 57 ′ 7 ″  N , 3 ° 11 ′ 21 ″  W
List of train stations in the United Kingdom
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Waverley Station
Waverley Station, looking west
Balmoral Hotel at the train station

Edinburgh Waverley or Waverley station , the main station of Edinburgh , is located downtown in a narrow gap between the Old Town and the New Town parallel to Princes Street .

traffic

The station is at the intersection of the East Coast Main Line and the Edinburgh branch of the West Coast Main Line . It is served by the rail companies LNER , First TransPennine Express , Abellio ScotRail , Serco and CrossCountry .

From the east, Waverley Station is served by long-distance trains from England along the East Coast Main Line and local trains from Tweedbank and North Berwick . Until 1969, this also included the long-distance trains of the Waverley Line from Carlisle . From the west, the station receives some branching traffic from the West Coast Main Line - such as direct long-distance trains from Aberdeen to Bournemouth or Manchester - as well as from almost all major Scottish stations, such as Glasgow Central , Glasgow Queen Street and Inverness .

Worth mentioning

  • Edinburgh Waverley is one of 17 train stations in Great Britain operated by the infrastructure company Network Rail .
  • Edinburgh Waverley is also the second busiest train station in Scotland . The busiest is Glasgow Central .
  • In terms of area, it is the second largest station in Great Britain after London Waterloo station .
  • The name Waverley is based on the title of the first novel by the successful Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), " Waverley ", to which the Scott Monument in Princes Street Gardens near the train station is dedicated.
  • Next to the train station is the five-star Hotel Balmoral with a clock tower whose clock is always two minutes ahead (except on New Year's Eve) so that passengers don't miss their train.
  • Edinburgh Haymarket Station is the city's second long-distance station at the west end of downtown Edinburgh .

literature

  • Richard Deiss: Vane Cathedral and Sugar Beet Station. A short story about 200 European train stations . Verlag Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2010, p. 71, ISBN 978-3-8391-2913-5 .

Web links

Commons : Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Waverley in Project Gutenberg (blocked in Germany since May 2018 and therefore inaccessible)
  2. ↑ Deiss, p. 71.