Part of our Edinburgh retro series, this video looks back at historic pictures of Princes Street railway station.
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00:00 Hello, I'm Neil from The Evening News and this video is part of a retro series where
00:05 we look back at historic pictures of Edinburgh.
00:08 In this video we'll be looking at pictures of Princess Street Station which stood at
00:12 the west end of Princess Street from 1870 until 1965.
00:18 In this picture from 1963 we can see the interior of Princess Street Station, showing the platform
00:24 entrance and the ornate refreshments bar.
00:29 Pips fans queued for the special train to Glasgow in March 1959.
00:33 It was to end in disappointment however, with the Scottish Cup tie ending in a 2-1 victory
00:38 for 3rd Lanark.
00:41 Here we see the Caledonian Railway locomotive number 123 arriving at Princess Street Station
00:47 in 1962.
00:50 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, better known as Laurel and Hardy, can be seen here at the
00:55 station when they visited Edinburgh in 1954.
01:00 This picture shows the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh leaving Princess Street Station
01:04 for Lanarkshire.
01:07 This aerial picture of the station shows just how much the Edinburgh landscape has changed
01:11 since the 1960s.
01:16 This picture shows the last train departing Princess Street Station in September 1965.
01:24 On September 6th that year, Head Porter Thomas closed the station gates for the final time.
01:31 The station would eventually be demolished in 1970.
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