The Anonymous Widower

Edinburgh Haymarket Station Gets It Right

Edinburgh Haymarket station is another example of Network Rail’s stations with a wide bridge over the tracks, like Leeds, Derby and most spectacularly Reading. London Bridge will join the club in the next couple of years.

As most trains stop at both Waverley and Haymarket stations in Edinburgh, I think passengers will ask themselves, why they would ever use the truly dreadful Waverley station?

• Access to the trams at Waverley means using endless steps and escalators to get to Princes Street and then an uncovered walk to the tram.
• Trams at Haymarket are just a short level walk outside.
• Taxi drop at Waverley is difficult with more steps. It’s on the level at Haymarket.
• Tickets to Edinburgh allow you to go to either station.
• Coming from the West and needing the tram, will passengers increasingly change at Edinburgh Park station?

Don’t fall into the trap of getting off at Edinburgh Waverley, which now always seems to be called just Edinburgh.

My only reservation about Haymarket is the station’s size.

Is it big enough for an important rugby match at Murrayfield, where the savvy will arrive at Haymarket and take a tram?

And will it be big enough, when the trams are extended, as they surely will be?

June 22, 2016 - Posted by AnonW | Transport/Travel | Architecture, Edinburgh Haymarket Station, Edinburgh Tram, Good Design