Component Companies
During its existence the NBR absorbed the following companies:
- Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway - first public railway in Scotland
- Slamannan Railway
- Ballochney Railway
- Dundee and Arbroath Railway
- Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
- Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
- Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway
- Edinburgh, Perth and Dundee Railway
- Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
- Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway
- Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank Railway
- Invergarry and Fort Augustus Railway
- Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway
- Kirkcaldy and District Railway
- West Highland Railway
- Jedburgh Railway
- Peebles Railway
- Esk Valley Railway
- Penicuik Railway
- Selkirk and Galashiels Railway
- Eyemouth Railway
- East Fife Central Railway
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