In theory they could route a few trains to avoid Glasgow Central by running on the Shields to Polmadie line, and then onwards to Edinburgh.
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Waverley set to overtake Glasgow Central for first time in 150 years
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although you can do tours of Holyrood, is it really marketed as a tourist attraction?
Seems like a stretch to me. They certainly do get tourists through, but they're sandwiched between Dynamic Earth and the Palace, both of which are likely rather bigger draws
Unless you want to see a funky looking building, I can't see parliament being a tourist draw in the same way Westminster would be.
edwin_m
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It seemed pretty busy when we visited last year. Quite a lot to see there too, including the scene of a murder.
hexagon789
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That's the Palace of Holyroodhouse though?
Not the Scottish Parliament, which is colloquially known as "Holyrood".
Yes, sorry, I meant Parliament, not the Palace of Holyrood. As far as I know, there hasn't been a murder in Parliament (yet)
Sounds like a parliament to me. It's an architecturally quite interesting building, with some important historical bits, and they've put together a fairly interesting tour. They also have a tourist-appropriate overpriced gift shop with a whole bunch of branded tat.
The murder is presumably Lord Darnley
NER1621
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Dragging this back to rail rather than local politics, the fact that York is a convenient stopping off-point on a fast rail line from London Kings Cross to Edinburgh is also an attraction for tourists planning their itineraries to use the ECML to Waverley.
This is, frankly, patronising (to both cities) rubbish.
Uncle Buck
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David Rizzio was murdered by Lord Darnley at Holyrood Palace. You can visit the room where it occurred (a much nicer building than Buckingham Palace IMO). Darnley was soon afterwards murdered at a house called Kirk o’ Field, the site of which is now the historic centre of Edinburgh University.
Scottish history lesson over…
Ahh quite right. It was just a servant that got murdered in Queensbury House while the Act of Union was being signed. For some reason I always get it mixed up with whole thing at Kirk o' Field. Either way, it all adds a bit to the parliament tour.
That's yet another murder. David Rizzio was assassinated by Lord Darnley, I believe in front of a pregnant Queen Mary. Darnley in his turn was assassinated in the Kirk O' Field on Canongate. This was 1567. The Act of Union wasn't signed until 1707, and apparently James Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig and his son, murdered a kitchen boy, on the same night the Earl signed the Act of Union. There are several places up & down the Royal Mile trading on the back of grisly histories. And the tours of the Parliament are quite popular.
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