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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 8 (December 1, 1929)

Recollections of Edinburgh

Recollections of Edinburgh.

And yet Edinburgh was a very pleasant place to live in even for one accustomed to the clear skies and open spaces of New Zealand, and this was not altogether due to the intellectual and historical attractions of the Scots capital. There were green spaces on the surrounding hills, in the Meadows in the old town, and in the semi-private squares of the new, and the recollections of the first day spent in Edinburgh are rather of the hyacinths and other spring flowers in the gardens than of the grimy streets and dull, dingy closes. The Princes Street Gardens, lying between the two large railway stations and almost on top of the railway lines running from the one to the other were, every summer, a brilliant mosaic of green grass and bright flowers always in bloom.

If all this was possible in Edinburgh under such unfavourable conditions of climate and fuel, is there any reason why the railway stations throughout New Zealand should, in 1929, be anything but patches of beauty to add to the natural charms of the country?