This was a single track railway which extended the line from Roslin to Glencorse and the north of Penicuik, serving Mauricewood Pit and the Penicuik Gasworks en route. The principal engineering feature was the Glencorse Viaduct, now demolished.
These locations are along the line.
This station was in the north of Roslin. It was terminus of the line from 1874 to 1877. It was a single platform station (on the south ie village side of the line). The line was single track with a passing loop by the platform. The station building was joined to a railway cottage (similar to Loanhead).
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Opened around 1876 by the Glasgow Iron Company and known as 'The Moat' after the farm just to the north. The company also owned the Motherwell Malleable Iron Works.
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This station was the terminus of the Glencorse Extension (Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway). It was on the Glencorse Estate built alongside Glencorse Barracks and west of Auchendinny. The barracks was a military prison dating from 1803, becoming a barracks in 1875.
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More detailsThis mine was sunk by the Shotts Iron Co in the 1870s, originally for iron ore for the Shotts Iron Works and later coal. It was the site of a disaster, a serious pit fire, which resulted in the deaths of 63 miners. This pit disaster is considered the worst in Lothian mining history.
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The Penicuik and District Gas Company works were opened on the 30th of June 1878. The works was at the north end of the town on a small site between the A701 (to the west) and Loan Burn (to the east). Prior to this coal gas produced by the Valleyfield Mill was used in the town.
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This colliery was sunk by the Shotts Iron Co. This company had a lease on the minerals in an extensive area from Cornbank to Glencorse including Eastfield.
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