Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway)
Introduction
This line is open. The lines pass close to Edinburgh Airport at Turnhouse and there have been plans to built a line from near Winchburgh, via the Airport, to Turnhouse. This route would slightly shorten the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and allow Edinburgh Airport to be more accessible to both Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Dates
| 02/06/1890 | Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway) Line opened from Dalmeny to Winchburgh. |
| /03/2004 | Edinburgh Airport Rail Link Proposed scheme would have a station under Edinburgh Airport served by a link off the Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway) and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the Forth Bridge lines. The layout would be southern approaches (both approached from the east) from South Gyle and Gogar combining and passing under Edinburgh Airport before dividing with a western link to Humbie Signal Box and northern link to Dalmeny South Junction. This layout would allow trains from Edinburgh Waverley and Glasgow Queen Street High Level to serve the station and the line to the north from Edinburgh to Fife, Aberdeen and Inverness over the Forth Bridge. The estimated cost was £500M. |
| /03/2010 | Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway) Gogar interchange station promoted by Scottish Government as a cheap alternative to an Edinburgh Airport Rail Link. Cost expected to be £40M. (Opened as Edinburgh Gateway.) |
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Saughton to Dalmeny
This junction is west of Edinburgh. This is where the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway of 1842 is met by the Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway) of 1890. The location is just east of the former Saughton station. Both lines are double track and from the east of the junction to Edinburgh the line is quadrupled.
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See also
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
David Panton 29/07/2021
Bill Roberton 27/04/2002
David Panton 05/06/2021
Bill Roberton //1990
This was a four platform station on raised embankments to the east side of Saughton Road in western Edinburgh.
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See also
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
John Furnevel 25/07/2014
John Furnevel 26/10/2002
John Furnevel 25/07/2014
John Furnevel 02/11/2006
This signal box was to the north of Saughton Junction and Saughton station on the line to the Forth Bridge from Edinburgh. The box was the north side of the line. ...
More detailsThis is a modern and minimal two station platform. There is a station car park to the south. This station is entirely new and is not a re-opening. Previously the nearest station was at Saughton, now closed, a mile to the east.
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David Panton 07/07/2021
David Panton 10/07/2018
John Furnevel 06/08/2013
David Panton 11/01/2019
This station is a train/tram interchange which also serves the Gyle shopping Centre. Trams run west to Edinburgh Airport.
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David Panton 01/05/2021
John Yellowlees 22/09/2023
David Panton 08/05/2021
David Panton 10/07/2021
This was a two platform station to the south of Turnhouse Farm and east of today's Edinburgh Airport.
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David Panton 04/09/2021
David Panton 01/05/2021
David Panton 04/09/2021
David Panton 04/09/2021
John Furnevel 11/09/2009
John Furnevel 26/06/2008
John Furnevel 26/06/2008
This was a four way junction. The 1868 was crossed by the 1890 Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway) which joined the line from south east and left the older line to the north west of the junction.
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See also
South Queensferry Branch (North British Railway)
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Bill Roberton //1978
Ewan Crawford 28/12/2003
Dalmeny South to North Junction
This was a four way junction. The 1868 was crossed by the 1890 Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway) which joined the line from south east and left the older line to the north west of the junction.
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See also
South Queensferry Branch (North British Railway)
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Bill Roberton //1978
Ewan Crawford 28/12/2003
This junction is south of Dalmeny station. Lines from Edinburgh (Saughton Junction) and the west (Winchburgh Junction) meet before passing through Dalmeny station and crossing the Forth Bridge.
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See also
Forth Bridge Railway
John Furnevel 16/06/2008
John Furnevel 26/08/2008
Malcolm Chattwood 15/06/2023
John Furnevel 26/06/2008
Winchburgh to Dalmeny
This junction opened in 1890 between the 1842 Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the approach to the then new Forth Bridge. It is the western end of a line which runs to Dalmeny. This was a double track junction.
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See also
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Bill Roberton //1990
Jim Peebles 27/04/2014
Bill Jamieson /04/1972
This signal box was located on the western approach to the Forth Bridge on the line between Winchburgh Junction and Dalmeny North Junction.
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This junction is south of Dalmeny station. Lines from Edinburgh (Saughton Junction) and the west (Winchburgh Junction) meet before passing through Dalmeny station and crossing the Forth Bridge.
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See also
Forth Bridge Railway
John Furnevel 16/06/2008
John Furnevel 26/08/2008
Malcolm Chattwood 15/06/2023
John Furnevel 26/06/2008
