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
St. Boswells railway station St. Boswells railway station St Boswells railway station was a railway station that served the village of St Boswells, Scottish Borders, Scotland from 1849 to 1969 on the Waverley Route. The station opened on 1 November 1849 as Newtown by the North British Railway. The station was situated on both sides of the B6398. The name changed to New Town St Boswells in January 1853 and to St Boswells on 1 March 1865. The goods yard was north of the station and had three sidings, one of which passed through a timber goods shed. The yard was later extended to