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2. Caledonian Railway lines to Edinburgh - Wikipedia

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   The Caledonian Railway lines to Edinburgh started with the main line that reached Edinburgh in 1848 as part of its route connecting the city with Glasgow and Carlisle. The potential of the docks at Granton and Leith led to branch line extensions, and residential development encouraged branch lines in what became the suburbs of Edinburgh.

3. History of the Caledonian Railway (until 1850) - Wikipedia

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   A prospectus for the Caledonian Railway, capital £1,500,000, was issued on 12 April 1845. Six weeks were spent in committee in Parliament, and the efforts were crowned with success: An Act for making a Railway from Carlisle to Edinburgh and Glasgow and the North of Scotland, to be called The Caledonian Railway was passed on 31 July 1845. The ...

4. Caledonian Railway - Wikipedia

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   Another scheme failed to get finance in 1866 and again in 1873, but the Caledonian Railway (Gordon Street Station Connecting Lines) Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. cxxxiii) was obtained to build a bridge crossing the Clyde and bringing the South Side route into the city centre. A four-track railway bridge crossing the river was designed by Blyth and ...

5. Caledonian main line - Wikipedia

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   The Caledonian Railway main line in Scotland connected Glasgow and Edinburgh with Carlisle, via Carstairs and Beattock. It was opened in 1847 by the Caledonian Railway . The approach to Glasgow used railways already built, primarily for mineral traffic; these were later by-passed by a more direct route.

6. Cleland and Midcalder Line - Wikipedia

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   Cleland and Midcalder Line is a historic railway line in Scotland. Built by the Caledonian Railway and opened in 1869, [citation needed] it provides a link between Glasgow and Edinburgh through the mining communities of Lanarkshire and West Lothian.

7. Balerno line - Wikipedia

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   The Caledonian Railway was heavily committed to capital expenditure on a number of schemes, and the collapse of the banking house of Overend, Gurney and Company in June 1866 resulted in a financial crash, and money for railway construction was impossible to get. The subscriptions the Caledonian had acquired for the Balerno line were expended on ...