Lothian Road station was immediately to the south of the site on
which the Caledonian Railway built Princes Street Station and the
Caledonian Hotel.
The station continued in use as a goods depot until recently
[around 1990?]. It is now the City end of
the Western Approach Road, which follows the tracks of the old railway
from Lothian Road to the west towards Murrayfield.
2
It was from Lothian Road
station that Edinburgh's first through service to London operated, from
February 1848.
This service took the
western route to London, via Carlisle and the Midlands.
The service commenced two
years before the North British Railway completed their link between
Edinburgh and London down the East Coast Route to Kings Cross station.
1: 'Yesterday's
Railways: Edinburgh' Publ: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
ISBN 0 9508595 0 8
STATIONS
mentioned on the
EDINBURGH RAILWAYS
pages