Date: 18/12/2013

The £25 million revamp of Haymarket Station is set to be officially unveiled to the travelling public as the finishing touches are being put to the new concourse. Passengers will be met with a giant departures board on the same scale as the one in Waverley as they are allowed access from Haymarket Terrace from 5.30am tomorrow. A series of escalators, bridges and stairs connect the new-look steel and glass structure to existing platforms. The state-of-the-art facility has tripled the concourse floor space to 8700 square metres, having been designed to cater for a predicted 125 per cent increase in passenger numbers over the next 15 years.

External links

Related images

Ex-GNSR no 49 Gordon Highlander runs through Haymarket with the special 9am Glasgow Central - Leith Central via Shotts on 19 April 1965. The train was part of Scottish Rambler No 4 and would later join up with a second train hauled by ex-CR 123 at Carstairs [see image 20513] before the combination returned west to end the tour at Glasgow Buchanan Street. Note the station clock and Haymarket Ice Rink on the right.
Location: Haymarket
Company: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
19/04/1965 K A Gray

The original Haymarket train shed in the course of dismantling in late 1982 as a Waverley bound DMU waits at platform 1. Much of the structure would reappear as part of the SRPS station at Boness, while the trackbed on the right would also reappear 25 years later as platform 0 [see image 17459].
Location: Haymarket
Company: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
//1982 Bill Roberton

26034 on the 1248 Edinburgh - Perth pulling away from the Haymarket stop in April 1980. The trainshed to the left of the locomotive is part of the original Edinburgh & Glasgow Railway terminus and was removed 2 years later when the remains of the old coal yard (far left) were cleared to make way for a car park. It now forms part of the SRPS station at Boness.
Location: Haymarket East Junction
Company: Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
18/04/1980 John Furnevel