Railway chiefs say Sir Sean is way off track

Published on Saturday 23 August 2008 10:54

NETWORK Rail has hit back at Sir Sean Connery's "outrage" at the prefix Edinburgh being added to Waverley Station.

Sir Sean blasted the "bureauprats" who renamed the station in his eagerly-awaited memoirs, entitled Being A Scot.

However, the station owners said the name of the station was first changed in 1947 when the railways were nationalised to standardise how major stations were identified.

They also said although the name may be widely known to people living in Edinburgh and Scotland, visitors travelling to the Capital would not necessarily know that Waverley Station is in Edinburgh.

In one of his many attacks on the state of modern Edinburgh and how the city is run, Sir Sean said he was "outraged" to see the extended name on station signs.

But a Network Rail spokesman said: "The name of the station was amended to Edinburgh Waverley in 1947 when the railway industry was nationalised."