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GW Wilson

Canal Street Station

This view shows detail from a G W Wilson stereo view of Waverly Bridge and the Old Town of Edinburgh.

The view zooms-in on Canal Street station,  immediately beside Waverley Station.  The railway  from Canal Street ran to the north through a tunnel under Princes Street then under  the length of Scotland Street, and on to Granton Harbour and the ferry to Burntisland.

Trains were hauled up the hill through the tunnel to Canal Street station by a stationary engine.

Thank you to Patrick Hutton for providing the following comments after seeing the 'zoom-in' picture of Canal Street station above:

I believe the photograph is likely to have been taken towards the end of this period, as the land appears to have been cleared for the building of Lord Cockburn Street (now known as Cockburn Street).  Building of the street commenced around 1859.

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