Epic Train vs Cars Princes Street Station Showdown!

Описание: Once one of Scotland’s most atmospheric railway termini, Edinburgh Princes Street Station stood in the very heart of the capital, just beneath the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. Opened in 1848, it was the city’s original main station, welcoming travellers into Edinburgh at the height of the Victorian railway age.

With its sweeping trainshed, smoke-filled platforms and views up to the Castle Rock, Princes Street Station offered one of the most dramatic railway arrivals in Britain. For decades it bustled with express trains, suburban services, steam locomotives and later early diesels, serving the Caledonian Railway and becoming a key gateway to the city.

But expansion was difficult, and as traffic increased, a new solution emerged nearby. Edinburgh Waverley gradually took over as the city’s principal station, and Princes Street closed to passengers in 1890. The site was redeveloped, its rails lifted and platforms lost beneath hotels and shops — yet its memory still lingers beneath the modern city.

A vanished station, but not a forgotten one — Princes Street Station remains a powerful reminder of Edinburgh’s early railway heritage and the romance of travel in the Victorian age.

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