Edinburgh Waverley
Long before the days of VDUs, LCDs, Flappers etc, train departures from larger stations were often displayed via a manually operated scroll, such as this one in the booking hall at Waverley. When a service was withdrawn the entry was deleted using a brush and a pot of white paint. On 2 May 1964 we see the demise of the service that formerly departed between the 4pm Talisman to London Kings Cross and the 4.10pm all stations to Hawick (apart from Tynehead on Saturdays). [Note the number of trains that called at Portobello in those days - also the large advertisement for Player's Gold Leaf cigarettes on the left.] [Additional - Alasdair Taylor advises that the service deleted was the 4.5pm to Dunbar, calling at Portobello, Joppa, Inveresk, Prestonpans, Longniddry, Drem, East Fortune and East Linton.]
Location: Edinburgh Waverley
Original line: North British Railway
Photographer: Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)
Contact photographer: Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)
Date: 02/05/1964
Image number: 31124
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