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It is true - the North British Railway was a Scottish company based in Edinburgh and it's funding chairman was John Learmonth from Edinburgh. It had nothing to do with the British Government.

Learmonth wanted to fund railways in the Central Belt and the Scottish Borders to link with the English railway lines at Berwick and Carlisle. They also laid lines in the North of England to connect Carlisle and Newcastle. The company also built both Tay Bridges and the Forth Bridge. It became part of LNER in 1923 and the hotel name was changed in 1991 after extensive refurbishment.

Learmonth also a Tory politician and dare I say it - I'm totally unsurprised re that fact either (after perusing his history of vg contribution to the railways), sadly attached to Tory Unionism like a huge percentage of individuals of his ilk and wealth at that time. Has it even changed now come to think of it!!? One cannot ignore the techniques deployed by lots more cynical political people beyond Learmonth to impose this message of "we own you", the message of absolute power (that they lost greatly in 1997 and still can't come to terms with it!!) to Scotland and the Scottish people. It's one of the reasons (one of many!) why we are where we are now politically in Scotland AND ABOUT TIME TOO!! The name title, North British.. still says a lot re the political period when Scotland was effectively "under the thumb" of the Brit establishment and Empire was still "ticking over" nicely - all gone, over, although we are listening even now, in the year 2022, to certain Tory-Brexit morons down south "banging on" about a return to such a period of greatness, BUT lets not forget the "darkness", the macabre practises, attached to that period of history as well eh!! Lots of it conveniently ignored by these morons btw.