This line is open to freight. It provided a circular route for passenger trains serving the south of Edinburgh and an Edinburgh Waverley bypass for trains from the east to west. Niddrie Yard developed near its east end amongst the Niddrie Junctions.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This runs east from Haymarket West Junction to Duddingston Junction through the south side of Edinburgh. This allowed goods and mineral trains to bypass Edinburgh Waverley and allowed an approach to South Leith from the west. It also carried a circular passenger service based on Edinburgh Waverley and often terminating at Leith Central. Duddingston Junction to Niddrie West Junction was doubled.
This junction opened in 1876 when the Wester Dalry Branch and Dalry Road Lines (Caledonian Railway) opened, allowing Caledonian Railway trains from Edinburgh Princes Street to join the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway westbound and then, via the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway, join the Scottish Central Railway at Larbert Junction and run north to Stirling, ...
More detailsThis is the southern junction of a triangular junction formed by Haymarket West Junction (west), Haymarket Central Junction (east) and Gorgie Junction (south).
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This mill was rail served via a headshunt from Gorgie Junction. It was the glue and gelatine mill of J&G Cox Ltd, originally the site was probably a corn mill. The mill was rail served from 1905.
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This was a small goods yard on the west side of the line just north of Gorgie station and south of Gorgie Junction. It was approached from the north. On the west side of the yard was Gorgie East Minerals, a larger set of sidings for coal traffic. Further west again was the start of the Gorgie Cattle Market [NB], which crossed over a level crossing (as did the mineral yard ...
More detailsThis was a two platform station. Nothing remains of the station.
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This was a temporary station for the Edinburgh International Exhibition of 1890 for Electrical Engineering, General Inventions and Industries. It was built in the cutting to the east of the exhibition. The site was also served by Exhibition [CR].
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This double track junction is between the 1884 Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway and the Slateford to Craiglockhart Curve (British Railways).
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This was a two platform station in a deep cutting to the south of Colinton Road and the Union Canal. There were waiting rooms at platform level. The station had no goods yard.
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This was a two platform station. It is fairly intact despite closure in 1962. The eastbound platform and street level ticket office both remain intact. A lattice footbridge still crosses the west end of the former station.
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This was a two platform station to the west of Blackford Avenue.
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Newington Goods was west of Newington, Newington Stone Yard being a little further west. Both were on the north side of the line and served from the west.
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This was an island platform station. The island was accessed by steps down from Mayfield Gardens/Craigmillar Park at the east end and by a footbridge and path on the north side of the line which ran to Mayfield Road to the west. The station building on the platform was originally fitted with canopies.
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This signal box was east of Newington [NBR] station at Cameron Toll where the line runs raised on an embankment. It was relatively short lived, lasting from 1900 to 1925. The line remains open.
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This was a two platform station on a curve. It was immediately to the west of Duddingston Junction. The main station building was on the eastbound platform with a smaller on the westbound. A goods yard was to the north, served from the old Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway line, rather than the new Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway on which the station was located.
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This junction was directly east of Duddingston station. It was formed in 1884 between the 1831 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway and the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway.
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This curve runs from Haymarket Central Junction to Gorgie Junction. This allowed a circular passenger service based on Edinburgh Waverley and often terminating at Leith Central.
This junction is west of Haymarket station and Haymarket East Junction. The junction opened with the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway junction in 1884.
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This is the southern junction of a triangular junction formed by Haymarket West Junction (west), Haymarket Central Junction (east) and Gorgie Junction (south).
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This curve runs from Niddrie West Junction to Niddrie North Junction. This allowed a circular passenger service based on Edinburgh Waverley and often terminating at Leith Central.
This junction is between the single track line from Portobello East Junction and the double track from Niddrie South Junction. The line runs west to Craiglockhart Junction round the Edinburgh Suburban line (the former Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway).
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This was the junction between the North British Railway's line from Portobello East Junction to Niddrie South Junction and an isolated curve of the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway from Niddrie West Junction which enabled trains from the southside line to approach Edinburgh Waverley from the east, thus completing a circle line and provide a route for goods ...
More detailsThis double track line ran from Niddrie West Junction to meet the original Fisherrow branch east of the Niddrie where it then used the trackbed for a short distance before diverting south to the North British Railway main line at Niddrie East Junction. This completed a triangular junction with the main line at the east end of the line.
This junction is between the single track line from Portobello East Junction and the double track from Niddrie South Junction. The line runs west to Craiglockhart Junction round the Edinburgh Suburban line (the former Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway).
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This junction opened in 1884. Also known as Newhailes East Junction. It was the southern end of a Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway curve connecting north west to the Fisherrow branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.
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