This railway is closed. The line ran from Slateford in Edinburgh to Balerno. The route is now a cycle-way.
/ /1841 | Woodhall Paper Mill Converted from white paper to brown paper, served by the Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) on the railway's opening in 1874 |
/ /1865 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Act for the line authorised. |
/ /1869 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Proposed line abandoned. |
/ /1870 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) New version of the Balerno branch authorised. |
/ /1870 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) A connection at the west end of the Balerno branch is authorised from Ravelrig Junction, making the branch into a loop off the Edinburgh branch of the Caledonian Railway. Balerno Goods would now be left on a short branch. |
01/08/1874 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Loop opened along with Balerno Goods. Stations opened at Colinton, Juniper Green, Currie [2nd] and Balerno. |
/ /1890 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Villa building starts around Colinton. |
11/09/1939 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Balerno (excluded) - Ravelrig Junction (excluded) closed to passengers. |
01/11/1943 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Balerno to Edinburgh (Balerno Junction) closed to passengers (official date 13 June 1949). |
13/06/1949 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Balerno to Edinburgh (Balerno Junction) officially closed to passengers, although actually suspended in 1943. |
11/08/1958 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Juniper Green closed to goods. |
04/12/1967 | Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) Balerno Goods to Balerno Junction and Balerno Goods Junction to Ravelrig Junction closed. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This junction was at the east end of the Balerno Branch and connected the 1874 single track branch to the 1848 main line railway.
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This siding was between Hailes Halt (to the south) and Balerno Junction (to the north). The siding was on the south side of the line, above the Water of Leith, and accessed from the Balerno Junction direction. The siding had a loop and goods shed. A bridge connected the yard to Kate's Mill itself, on the south side of the Water of Leith.
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Opened 1908, first advertised 1927.
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This is a single track, single bore, 150 yd tunnel between Colinton and Hailes Halt. The tunnel features a mural, running the length of the tunnel, inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's poem 'From a Railway Carriage'.
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This was a single platform station with a typical Caledonian Railway small station timber building. The station was immediately west of Colinton Tunnel.
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This was a single platform station. The platform was on the north (village) side of the line. The Water of Leith was just to the south, alongside the line, with a footbridge crossing to the south bank.
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This was a two platform station with a passing loop on a single track line. This station was in the south of Currie, unlike Currie [1st] which it replaced, some way to the north. There was a goods yard to the south, served from the west. There was a water tank at the west end and signal box. Each platform had waiting rooms.
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This was the junction between the single track Balerno loop and the single track branch to Balerno Goods. Approach to the goods yard was from the east. Balerno station was just to the north of the junction, north of a road bridge.
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This was a single platform station. Although the Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) was a loop, Balerno station operated as a terminus with trains running to Edinburgh Princes Street. The loop was referred to as the Balerno Branch. The line continued west past the station to Ravelrig Junction and east to Balerno Junction via Juniper Green and Colinton. The next station ...
More detailsThis junction was formed in 1874 between the west end of the Balerno Branch (Caledonian Railway) and the 1848 Caledonian Railway.
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This was the junction between the single track Balerno loop and the single track branch to Balerno Goods. Approach to the goods yard was from the east. Balerno station was just to the north of the junction, north of a road bridge.
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This goods yard was in the north of Balerno, the terminus of a short goods only line from Balerno Goods Junction. It was located on the west side of the confluence of the Water of Leith and Bavelaw Burn. Approach to the yard was from the north east, approach along the Balerno branch being from the Edinburgh direction. The goods yard was equipped with a goods shed, loading banks and a crane. ...
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