Canal Street Station

1847 - 1868

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Canal Street Station

Despite having been closed for over 130 years, the terminus of the old Canal Street Station can still be found opposite Platform 19 in Waverley Station.

The old track from Canal Street station ran at right-angles to the Waverley Station lines in the photograph above, leaving through the small dark 'hole' near the centre of this picture, and travelling to the north, under Waverley Market, down the hill through Scotland Street tunnel.

Some of George Washington Wilson's early stereotype views of Waverley Bridge, looking towards the Old Town of Edinburgh show the buildings associated with Canal Street Station.

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Trains were hauled up the line through the tunnel to Canal Street Station.  The line was extended to Granton in 1847, but services through the tunnel were withdrawn and the line to Granton was routed via Piershill in 1868.  The last passenger services to Granton ran in 1925.