This deviation was built to replace the rope-operated incline between Canal Street and Scotland Street. A portion of this connecting line remains from Piershill Junction to Powderhall. A disused section of track also remains between Piershill Junction and Abbeyhill Junction.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This junction was formed between the 1868 Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway) and the 1846 North British Railway. It was east of Edinburgh Waverley and the Calton Tunnels.
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This was a two platform station with waiting shelters at platform level and a booking office over the line on London Road and stairways running down to platform level. The station opened with the Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway).
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This was a three way double track junction. No railway remains in use here today.
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Double track lines from Abbeyhill Junction (the approach from Edinburgh Waverley) and Piershill Junction (from Portobello met here, the junction forming the top of a triangular junction. The line continued to Granton, North Leith and, to the immediate west, the large Leith Walk East Goods. These lines opened in 1868 replacing the harder to work earlier alignment through ...
More detailsEaster Road station was a two platform station in a very constrained site. To the west of Easter Road, which crossed over the line to the immediate west, was Leith Walk East Goods which was a large goods station with headshunts just west of the road bridge. The goods station was on the south side of the line and sidings for works were on the north side. To the east of the station was [[Easter ...
More detailsThis was a two platform station on the west side of Leith Walk. The main station building was at street level on the south side and there were waiting shelters on each platform. The footbridge was on the west side of Leith Walk with stairs down to the platforms. A row of shops is on the east side of the Leith Walk bridge over the railway.
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This was a two platform suburban station with a ticket office on the road bridge to the south (Broughton Road) and waiting rooms on each platform. There was no goods yard.
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Point of division between the lines to Granton and Leith North on the deviation avoiding the Scotland Street Tunnel.
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This was the western end of a west to east curve, connecting to Bonnington East Junction, which allowed through running from North Leith to Granton.
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This junction was to the south of Trinity [2nd] station. The signal box was located on the west side.
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This is the junction for the disused line to the Powderhall Destructor. Approach was from the east.
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This was a two platform station on an elevated section of line. The booking office was at street level at the east end on Restalrig Road with covered footways up to the platform above. The westbound platform was approached from Clockmill Road. Waiting room buildings on the platforms North British Railway style.
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This was a single platform station built on the westbound line of the Abbeyhill Loop. It served the Commonwealth Games stadium at Meadowbank. Shuttle trains from Edinburgh Waverley used the crossover west of the station to reach the platform, crossing over from the eastbound to the westbound line.
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This junction opened in 1888 with the curve from London Road Junction. This provided a secondary route from Abbeyhill Junction to Piershill Junction and on to Portobello East Junction, thus quadrupling the route.
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This was the Edinburgh structural steel manufacturing works of Redpath, Brown & Co.
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Double track lines from Abbeyhill Junction (the approach from Edinburgh Waverley) and Piershill Junction (from Portobello met here, the junction forming the top of a triangular junction. The line continued to Granton, North Leith and, to the immediate west, the large Leith Walk East Goods. These lines opened in 1868 replacing the harder to work earlier alignment through ...
More detailsPoint of division between the lines to Granton and Leith North on the deviation avoiding the Scotland Street Tunnel.
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This was the western end of a west to east curve, connecting to Bonnington East Junction, which allowed through running from North Leith to Granton.
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This large flour mill was located north of the Bonnington North Junction to Bonnington East Junction. When built, the area was largely undeveloped (see NLS link).
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This was a three way double track junction. No railway remains in use here today.
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This junction opened in 1888 with the curve from London Road Junction. This provided a secondary route from Abbeyhill Junction to Piershill Junction and on to Portobello East Junction, thus quadrupling the route.
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Easter Road station was a two platform station in a very constrained site. To the west of Easter Road, which crossed over the line to the immediate west, was Leith Walk East Goods which was a large goods station with headshunts just west of the road bridge. The goods station was on the south side of the line and sidings for works were on the north side. To the east of the station was [[Easter ...
More detailsThis large goods yard was to the west of Easter Road station on the lines built in 1868 to replace the Scotland Street Tunnel route. It was a principal goods depot of the North British Railway in Edinburgh. The yard was on the northern part of a triangle of lines. It could be served from the west (via Abbeyhill Junction) or east (via Piershill Junction). Approach to the yard ...
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