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Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station

Edinburgh Waverley is the principal railway station serving , Scotland. It is the second busiest station in Scotland, after . The station serves as the northern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, 393 miles 13 chains from , although some trains operated by London North Eastern Railway continue to other Scottish destinations beyond Edinburgh.
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  • Opening hours:
    Monday—Saturday: 4:00 AM—12:45 AM
    Sunday: 6:00 AM—12:45 AM
  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: main railway station in the Scottish capital Edinburgh
  • Also known as: “EDB”, “Edinburgh”, “Edinburgh Central Station”, “Edinburgh railway station”, “Edinburgh Waverley railway station”, “Edinburgh Waverley station”, “Edinburgh, Waverley Bridge, Waverley Station”, “Waverly Rail”, and “Waverly Station”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scott Monument and Edinburgh Castle.

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The is a Victorian Gothic to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the in Havana. is situated 600 feet west of Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station.

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is a historic castle in , . It stands on , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. is situated 2,400 feet southwest of Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station.

Art gallery
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The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. is situated 1,100 feet west of Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

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is the original settlement of . At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".

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of is 250 years old, in contrast to the settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.

Suburb
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is a residential area in the centre of , . It mainly comprises public housing developments. It is bounded in the north by Holyrood Road, the west by the Pleasance and St Leonard's Street and the east by .

Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station

Latitude
55.9519° or 55° 57′ 7″ north
Longitude
-3.19042° or 3° 11′ 26″ west
Elevation
203 feet (62 metres)
Operator
Network Rail
Network
National Rail
Abbreviation
“EDB”
IATA airport code
ZXE
Open location code
9C7RXR25+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7149998196
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6952537
Wiki­data ID
Q800716
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Edinburgh Waverley tren geltokia”
  • Basque: “Edinburgheko tren geltokia”
  • Basque: “Edinburgheko Waverley tren geltokia”
  • Catalan: “Estació d’Edimburg-Waverley”
  • Chinese: “愛丁堡威瓦利站”
  • Czech: “Edinburgh Waverley”
  • Czech: “Waverley”
  • Dutch: “station Edinburgh Waverley”
  • Dutch: “Station Edinburgh Waverley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محطة ادينبورج واڤيرلى”
  • Estonian: “Edinburgh Waverley”
  • Finnish: “Waverleyn rautatieasema”
  • French: “Édimbourg-Waverley”
  • French: “gare d’Édimbourg-Waverley”
  • French: “Gare d’Édimbourg-Waverley”
  • German: “Bahnhof Edinburgh Waverley”
  • German: “Edinburgh Waverley Station”
  • German: “Edinburgh Waverley”
  • German: “Edinburgh-Waverley”
  • German: “Waverley Station”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת הרכבת אדינבורו וייברלי”
  • Hebrew: “תחנת הרכבת אדינבורו וייוורלי”
  • Irish: “Waverley Dhún Éideann”
  • Italian: “stazione di Edimburgo Waverley”
  • Italian: “Stazione di Edimburgo Waverley”
  • Japanese: “エディンバラ・ウェイヴァリー駅”
  • Japanese: “エディンバラ・ウェイバリー駅”
  • Korean: “에든버러 웨이벌리역”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Edinburgh Waverley stasjon”
  • Norwegian: “Edinburgh Waverley stasjon”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه راه‌آهن ادینبرو ویورلی”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه راه‌آهن ادینبورو ویورلی”
  • Polish: “Edynburg Waverley”
  • Russian: “Вокзал Эдинбург-Уэверли”
  • Scots: “Edinburgh Waverley railway station”
  • Scots: “Edinburgh Waverley railwey station”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Edimburgo-Waverley”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Edimburgo-Waverley”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Estacion de Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Estación de edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Edimburgo”
  • Swedish: “Edinburgh Waverley”
  • Ukrainian: “Единбург-Веверлі”
  • Urdu: “ایڈنبرا ویورلی ریلوے اسٹیشن”
  • Venetian: “Stasion de Edimburgo-Waverley”
  • Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Waverley Caeredin”

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