• The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was authorised by act of Parliament on 4 July 1838.[page needed][page needed] It was opened to passenger traffic on...
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    was opened in 1822 and was initially successful, but the construction of railways, particularly the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which opened in 1842...
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    Edinburgh Waverley (also known simply as Edinburgh; Scottish Gaelic: Waverley Dhùn Èideann) is the principal railway station serving Edinburgh, Scotland...
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    The GlasgowEdinburgh via Falkirk line is a mainline railway line linking Glasgow and Edinburgh via Falkirk in Scotland. It is the principal route out...
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    two mainline railway terminals (the larger being Glasgow Central) and is the third-busiest station in Scotland behind Central and Edinburgh Waverley (as...
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    forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively extended its network and reached Edinburgh and Aberdeen, with a dense network of...
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    mainline rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland. The railway station was opened by the Caledonian Railway on 1 August 1879 and is one of 20 managed by Network...
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    kilometres) northeast of the town of Prestwick Scotland, and 32 miles (51 kilometres) southwest of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the less busy of the two airports...
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    Junction opened by Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway; 1846 - Edinburgh Waverley to Haymarket opened by Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway; 1849 - Newbridge Junction...
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    bus service, operated by Scottish Citylink, which runs between Edinburgh and Glasgow. 24-hour operation was introduced on 2 October 2017. In January...
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    Scotland. During 1842, Haymarket railway station was opened as the original terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The station represented the launch...
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  • electrified railway lines linking Glasgow with Edinburgh, the two largest cities in Scotland. These are, from north to south: GlasgowEdinburgh via Falkirk...
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    The GlasgowEdinburgh via Carstairs line is a main railway route which connects the Scottish cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, by means of their respective...
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    Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at...
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    The Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) was a railway company in Scotland. It served a triangular area of south-west Scotland between Glasgow, Stranraer...
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    underground railway in Glasgow: that distinction belongs to a three-mile (five-kilometre) section of the Glasgow City and District Railway opened in 1886...
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  • 21 — Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway opens in Scotland. March 31 — The Middleton Junction and Oldham Branch Railway opens to Oldham Werneth railway station...
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  • Broxburn railway station served the town of Broxburn, West Lothian, Scotland, from 1843 to 1849 on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The station was...
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    railway lines: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway between Edinburgh and Saughton Junction Forth Bridge Connecting Lines of the North British Railway between Saughton...
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    The Glasgow Subway rolling stock serves the Glasgow Subway, the third-oldest underground metro system in the world. The Subway is currently on the third...
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    11A at Glasgow Central on the former Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, Ayrshire Coast Line and Inverclyde Line; via Cardonald, Hillington East and Hillington...
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    chairman of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, whose ambition it was to enclose the triangle of land between Edinburgh, Berwick and Carlisle with NBR...
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    The Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway was a railway company formed in 1836 to connect the city of Edinburgh with the harbours on the Firth of Forth...
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    from Edinburgh, landing at 8 am on 2 May 1966. The airport was officially opened on 27 June 1966 by Queen Elizabeth II. The political rows over Glasgow and...
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  • with two adjoining railway lines to become the Monkland Railways; which in turn were absorbed by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. A short length of...
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    The Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway was an early railway built primarily to carry coal to Glasgow and other markets from the Monkland coalfields, shortening...
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    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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  • between Glasgow and Edinburgh must also be improved. The closed section of the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway between the 1989 Drumgelloch station and Bathgate...
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  • Edinburgh. Gradually other railways were acquired, including in 1865 the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, whose works at Cowlairs, Glasgow were better than that...
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  • Slamannan Railway was built to give access for minerals from pits in the Slamannan area to market in Glasgow (over connecting railways) and Edinburgh (over...
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