2012

NT2473 : Caledonian Hotel

taken 11 years ago, near to Edinburgh, Scotland

Caledonian Hotel
Caledonian Hotel
The Caledonian Railway Company's hotel at its Edinburgh terminus opened for business in 1903. It's another one of those red sandstone buildings more associated with the west of Scotland than the east, prompting the following comment by the architectural historian, Professor Charles McKean,

"The Caledonian deserved its canard that it had been conceived and reared in Glasgow, before being shunted along the railway only to burst out of the tunnel at the other end of the line." -- C McKean, Edinburgh, Portrait Of A City, 1991

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Geographical Context: City, Town centre Railways
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NT2473, 1991 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
kim traynor   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Tuesday, 30 October, 2012   (more nearby)
Submitted
Friday, 19 April, 2013
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NT 2471 7363 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.9868N 3:12.4323W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NT 2472 7367
View Direction
South-southwest (about 202 degrees)
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