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Set sights higher in station revamp

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2003 / October 6

Diverting railways into tunnels is an idea that comes up from time to time. It has been proposed in Edinburgh before, with a railway running in a tunnel under the southside. That proposal was to replace the current railway through Princes Street Gardens. Now a tunnel has been proposed again, by experts Richard Rooley and Terry Wyatt, with an underground Waverley Station. But is this a feasible option? Waverley Station already has a basement level - this is below the eastern two-thirds of the station - and the platform-level buildings are supported on this basement, as are the platforms themselves.

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