EDINBURGH SUBURBAN & SOUTH JUNCTION RAILWAY Maclean Oakwood Library BRAND NEW

The Edinburgh Suburban line was the Victorian equivalent of today\u2019s ring road, deigned and built to relieve congestion on an overburdened yet sill developing urban transport network. Starting life as a legally independent company, its prime function was to provide a through route for freight around the capital, passenger potential being negligible, but the city was slowly expanding in its direction.\nA passenger service was introduced shortly after opening, the number and location of stations being defined by assessed viability. As the city expanded, the stations became surrounded by domestic, commercial and industrial buildings and became centres of their respective communities. As \u2018town offices\u2019 for the NBR, they functioned as \u2018rail shops\u2019 between trains, revenue and statistics being perhaps artificially inflated by bookings from Waverley with no suburban railway element. Passengers on return portions of tickets were also discounted!\nEarly local freight way