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The Waverley Route was a railway line that ran south from Edinburgh, through Midlothian and the Scottish Borders, to Carlisle. The line was built by the North British Railway ; the stretch from Edinburgh to Hawick opened in 1849 and the remainder to Carlisle opened in 1862.
The railway was rebuilt as a non-electrified, largely single-track line. Several surviving Waverley Route structures, including viaducts and tunnels, were rehabilitated and reused for the reopened railway. Passenger services run half-hourly on weekdays until 20:00, and hourly until 23:54 and on Sundays.
This is a route-map template for the Waverley Route, a UK railway.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
Waverley Route Heritage Association is a heritage railway group involved with the history, heritage and preservation of the Waverley Route, based/centred on Whitrope, south of Hawick, Scotland. [ 3 ] Current projects include the restoration of the 1,208 yard Whitrope Tunnel , formerly part of the Border Union Railway .
The Border Union Railway was a railway line which connected places in the south of Scotland and Cumberland in England. It was authorised on 21 July 1859 by the Border Union (North British) Railways Act 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. xxiv) and advertised as the Waverley Route by the promoters - the North British Railway. [1]
The line is also used on occasions where the line between Haymarket and Waverley is closed for any engineering work, for example during the closure of Haymarket station in December 2019, when LNER and CrossCountry trains were diverted along the South Suburban line. On rare occasions the route is also used by charter trains hauled by steam or ...
Although the line via Carstairs is the longest of the various routes between Edinburgh and Glasgow, its electrification allowed the London King's Cross to Glasgow Intercity services (which had previously run to Glasgow Queen Street via the E&GR line) to be operated by InterCity 225 electric trains and diverted to Glasgow Central station ...
The E&DR in the context of selected later routes. The NBR did not upgrade the E&DR line simply to reach Gorebridge; instead the objective was Carlisle, where the line would join with English railway companies, forming the Waverley Line as a through route between the English and Scottish capitals. It took until 1862 to build a railway across the ...