The Caledonian Railway main line in Scotland connected Glasgow and Edinburgh with Carlisle, via Carstairs and Beattock. It was opened in 1847 by the Caledonian...
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over the route that such a line might take, but the Caledonian Railway was formed on 31 July 1845 and it opened its main line between Glasgow, Edinburgh...
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Waverley Route (redirect from Waverly line)
projected Caledonian Main Line but the proprietors' concerns were assuaged by the NBR's generous offer of £113,000 for the outright purchase of the line and...
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train at Glasgow for King's Cross via the East Coast Main Line. On 1 October 1873, the rival Caledonian Railway introduced a London and North Western Railway...
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northern section of the West Coast Main Line railway. The general history of the company is described in the article Caledonian Railway and detail of the development...
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carriages. She was also the Caledonian's favoured engine to act as pilot to the Royal Train which frequently used the Caledonian Main Line when transporting the...
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Quintinshill rail disaster (category Accidents and incidents involving Caledonian Railway)
on each side of the double-track Caledonian Main Line linking Glasgow and Carlisle (part of the West Coast Main Line). At the time of the accident, both...
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East Coast Main Line, arriving in London at 16:00. The return working leaves London at 12:00 and reaches Inverness at 20:00. The Caledonian Sleeper travels...
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Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, commonly known as Caley Thistle, Inverness CT or just Inverness, is a professional football club based in Inverness...
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Law Junction railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
Scotland from 1879 to 1965 on the Caledonian main line. The station opened on 1 December 1879 by the Caledonian Railway. To the southwest was Shawfield...
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operating a railway service on the former Caledonian Railway line between Brechin and Montrose, Angus, Scotland. This line was built by the Aberdeen Railway in...
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Beattock railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
Caledonian Main Line, and is now known as the West Coast Main Line. Between 1881 and 1964, Beattock was also the junction for the short branch line to...
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Carlisle railway station (category Stations on the West Coast Main Line)
Relief West Coast Main Line platform (bi-directional) and occasional Caledonian Sleeper - this is the normal north-bound West Coast Main Line platform. Platform...
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former station on the main line out of King's Cross. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Caledonian Road. If an internal...
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Glasgow Central Railway (section Main line)
The Glasgow Central Railway was a railway line built in Glasgow, Scotland by the Caledonian Railway, running in tunnel east to west through the city centre...
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Wishaw South railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
station being Wishaw Central. It was on the Caledonian Main Line, which was later known as the West Coast Main Line. The station opened on 20 March 1841, on...
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The Caledonian Railway lines to Edinburgh started with the main line that reached Edinburgh in 1848 as part of its route connecting the city with Glasgow...
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The Caledonian Forest is the ancient (old-growth) temperate forest of Scotland. The forest today is a reduced-extent version of the pre-human-settlement...
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Locharbriggs railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
was served by trains on a local line which ran between the Caledonian Main Line (now known as the West Coast Main Line) at Lockerbie and the Castle Douglas...
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Braidwood railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
Lanarkshire, Scotland from 1848 to 1962 on the Caledonian main line. The station opened in August 1848 by the Caledonian Railway. To the west was the goods yard...
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signal box at Banavie station. Passenger services on the line are operated by ScotRail and Caledonian Sleeper. As of May 2021, the service pattern is as follows:...
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Niddry at the time) with the NBR main line to Berwick and the Dalkeith route to the mineral fields. The Caledonian Railway too saw this as an opportunity...
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The Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway was a railway line in Scotland built by the Caledonian Railway to shorten the route from the Coatbridge area to Glasgow...
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Junction Scotch Dyke Longtown Gretna Lyneside Harker Parkhouse Halt Caledonian main line Gretna Floriston Rockcliffe Solway Junction Railway Bowness Whitrigg...
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Carstairs railway station (category Stations on the West Coast Main Line)
station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 15 February 1848 when the line between Glasgow and Beattock opened. The line from Edinburgh reached Carstairs...
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absorbed by the LNWR. North of Carlisle, the Caledonian Railway remained independent, and opened its main line from Carlisle to Beattock on 10 September...
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The Caledonian Railway branches in North Lanarkshire built on the Caledonian Railway main line, which opened in 1848. In the following years the considerable...
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Caledonian Road is a station on the Piccadilly line of the London Underground, between King's Cross St. Pancras and Holloway Road, and in Travelcard Zone...
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Fallside railway station (category Former Caledonian Railway stations)
the Clydesdale Junction section of the Caledonian main line. The station opened on 1 August 1872 by the Caledonian Railway. To the north east was the signal...
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