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2 unusual facts about Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway


Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway

"Six miles 1507 yards, approximately, from a junction with the N.B.R. (E & G Section) at…the bridge carrying the Caledonian Railway Granton and Leith branches over the N.B. at Haymarket, and terminating at a junction with the N.B.R. some 200 yards south east of... Portobello Station".

Sir Thomas Bouch, designer of the Tay Bridge, surveyed and planned the original route of the suburban line but following the bridge's collapse in 1879 and his death in 1881, the engineering responsibility was transferred to George Trimble of Trimble and Peddie Ltd.



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