BY THE BOOK
Not many railway stations are named after a fictional character. But Waverley Station in Edinburgh takes its name from the title of Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, and its hero Edward Waverley, a fictional English gentleman caught up in the very real Jacobite Rebellion of 1745. It says a lot about the Scottish capital that its biggest monument is also to Sir Walter himself and the station at which the sleeper train arrives from London every morning is named after his Waverley novels. But then Edinburgh is a very literary city.
The Scottish capital is not just tied to a single author either. Over the years, it has been the home and inspiration to writers as varied as the Dr Johnson biographer James Boswell, the poet Robbie Burns and the novelists Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Ian Rankin and JK Rowling to
