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Early GNSR locomotive and carriage at Waterloo Station in the 1860s
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Early GNSR locomotive and carriage at Waterloo Station in the 1860s

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Early GNSR locomotive and carriage at Waterloo Station in the 1860s
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Early GNSR locomotive and carriage at Waterloo Station in the 1860s
The distance between the termini was inconvenient and missed connections were common. Horse drawn buses and cabs were available but most people changing trains walked. Priority was given to mail which was rushed by carriage between the two stations.

In 1862 Waterloo was handling five passenger services to the north, including through carriages to Inverness, and four trains to Buchan. By this
time a network of branch lines was developing north of Aberdeen.

Following several years of controversy over the route and cost of a direct connection between the SNER and the GNSR, Parliament brokered an agreement between the two companies to jointly fund a line from Kittybrewster to a new station in Guild Street at a cost of about £200,000, involving two tunnels and the culverting of the Denburn.
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