North British Railway Loch, although steps had been taken to provide ornamental gardens on part of the area. The North British Railway obtained a cramped site close to the North Bridge, and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway extended their line from their terminus at Haymarket to meet the NBR. The new station was operated jointly, and was simply called "the Edinburgh station" or "the North Bridge station". It also came to be referred to as "the General station", and much later it was named "Waverley station". The English railway entrepreneur George Hudson was expanding his portfolio of railways and in 1847 his York
Harker railway station Harker railway station Harker railway station is a railway station that served the settlement of Harker, Cumbria, England, between 1861 and 1969 on the Waverley Line. The first station was opened on 29 October 1861 by the North British Railway to the north of on an unnamed minor road . It closed on 1 November 1929 but was used as an unadvertised halt for military personnel to the nearby airfield from 1936 until circa 1941. A new unadvertised station for RAF staff was opened on 1 March 1943 by the LNER on the other side of the bridge from the