For the best part of a century, Edinburgh had not just one but two city centre railway terminals located a mile apart from one another.
Built for and operated by the Caledonian Railway Company, Princes Street Station was the West End rival to the North British Railway Company's Waverley Station at the opposite end of the capital's main thoroughfare.
Replacing an earlier temporary station at Lothian Road, the original wooden shed of Princes Street Station opened to rail traffic in May 1870 and was subsequently rebuilt in red sandstone following a fire in 1890.
