Tag: Waverley
BSL information screens installed at Waverley
Network Rail has installed British Sign Language (BSL) customer information screens at Edinburgh Waverley.
Waverley and Glasgow Central stations are the first in the UK to have BSL on the main boards and sub boards...
Edinburgh Fringe 2023: Tom Robinson in Conversation
Tom Robinson shot to fame in the late 1970s when the (‘modestly named’) Tom Robinson Band had hits with 2-4-6-8 Motorway and Glad to Be Gay.
Over 40 years later he’s still going strong, still...
Waverley beer garden dealt another blow
A busy pop-up beer garden in Edinburgh City Centre has been dealt another blow after a bid to overturn the council’s decision to reject a three-year extension was thrown out.
A busy pop-up beer garden...
COP26 – Living Wall installed at Waverley to promote sustainable transport
Rail operator, London North Eastern Railway, (LNER), has unveiled its Azuma Living Wall Installation for COP26 supporting and promoting sustainable transport.
The wall is on display throughout COP26 which is taking place in Glasgow. LNER...
We’re going to a #Zomatoparty!
This Friday Waverley Station is to be transformed into a food-lovers’ paradise.
Foodies will get the chance to sample the best food and drink at Waverley Station tomorrow, to mark restaurant app Zomato’s 7th birthday.
The birthday party,...
East Coast rail franchise now run by Virgin
Virgin and Stagecoach won the franchise for the East Coast line at the end of last year. The new joint venture took over the running of the line between Aberdeen and London only yesterday morning...
Homecoming: Station Stories – a Victorian interlude at Waverley this week
A train carriage travels through a wintry landscape. You are the passenger in that carriage, and as you watch the swirling snowflakes from your cosy seat, an unknown voice begins to tell you a...
Through Border Eyes: Sir Walter Scott and John Buchan
We all like to think we know about Sir Walter Scott; plenty of us have visited Abbotsford, his beloved Borders home - we may even have seen Ivanhoe (the film version, that is...), and...
New film based on Waverley anniversary
New film marks 200th anniversary of Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel - ‘Waverley’
Queen Margaret University media students, Phillip Ellarby & Fausta Avizienyte, have created a new Vox Pops film to help celebrate the 200th...
VIDEO – For the Fallen locomotive visited Edinburgh today
A unique and moving centenary railway tribute to the thousands who gave their lives in World War One was dedicated by East Coast earlier this month.
Today the locomotive arrived in Edinburgh pulling the 12.10...
Anniversary edition of Scott’s Waverley
Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley: Newly adapted for the modern reader by Jenni Calder is being published 200 years after the original appearance of the first of the Waverley novels and the birth of the...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 7 JULY 2014
South West Neighbourhood Summer of Sport: get competitive! take part in this summer's themed activities and events. 2.30pm every Monday in the school holidays, Colinton Library, 14 Thorburn Road - contact...
City Centre MSP latest to call on Network Rail to rethink
BIAGI CALLS FOR NETWORK RAIL TO RECONSIDER WAVERLEY TAXI ACCESS
Edinburgh Central MSP Marco Biagi has today called on Network Rail to rethink their position after banning taxis from Waverley Station and asked Network Rail...
The Balmoral celebrates a big birthday today
110 years old today - and still looking good!
Edinburgh’s beloved ‘Grande Dame’ is celebrating its 110th anniversary this month with newly refurbished guest bedrooms and a series of events and activities for the year...
East Coast will carry your bags in the guard’s van
Modern trains with old fashioned service!
As the train operator of the main line service between Edinburgh and London, East Coast come in for a fair amount of flack, so we want to share with...
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