This line provided a service from the docks at Granton Harbour to Granton Junction (in the Haymarket are of Edinburgh) where it joined a line running to the main line of the Caledonian Railway. The line was developed jointly by the Caledonian and Walter Francis Montagu Douglas Scott, the Duke of Buccleuch, (across whose estate the line ran). The Dukes portion was later bought by the Caledonian.
This line is divided into a number of portions.
This was the junction between the 1861 Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway) and the Edinburgh Station and Branches (Caledonian Railway) line built in 1847 from Slateford Junction [1st] on the Caledonian Railway to just shy of an aborted junction at Haymarket on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
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This junction opened in 1864 when the a curve from the new Wester Dalry Branch and Dalry Road Lines (Caledonian Railway) connected the 1848 Caledonian Railway to the 1859 Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway).
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This is a an unusually ornate disused double track girder bridge which crosses over Roseburn Terrace just to the south of the former Murrayfield station. The line closed to passengers in 1962. Today the bridge carries a footpath.
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This was a two platform station on the lines between Edinburgh Princes Street and Leith North and Barnton. Both platforms had buildings, that on the northbound being slightly larger.
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This is a disused double track three arch viaduct over a path, the Water of Leith and Coltbridge Avenue. To the south was the Murrayfield station and to the north Craigleith.
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This was a two platform station with offices on Queensferry Road. There were waiting rooms on the platforms. The station was south of the road bridge and to the north was Craigleith Junction, the junction between the lines to Leith North and Barnton from Edinburgh Princes Street. There were goods sidings on the east side of the junction, approached from the south, with one in ...
More detailsThis double track junction was just north of Craigleith station, separated from it by the Queensferry Road overbridge. The existing signal box, dating from 1879 when the station opened, was used when the junction was created with the opening of the Barnton Branch (Caledonian Railway) in 1894. For this the box was renamed from Craigleith to Craigleith Junction.
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This was the southern approach to Crew Junction where the routes to Granton and Leith divided. the junction was the southern end of loops on either side of the line which rejoined the main line at Crew Junction. There was a yard laid out on either side of the loops.
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This junction was between the goods only 1861 Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway) and the 1864 Leith North Branch (Caledonian Railway). The junction gave access to the Granton and Leith routes from the south. Both railways were double track.
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This junction is also known as Pilton Junction West. The signal box here was called Pilton West Junction.
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This was the junction between the Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway)'s lines to the Granton western breakwater and Granton High Goods, and the connection to the former Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway (once a major transshipment point between the Caledonian Railway and North British Railway systems in Edinburgh.
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This was the junction between the Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway)'s lines to the Granton western breakwater and Granton High Goods, and the connection to the former Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway (once a major transshipment point between the Caledonian Railway and North British Railway systems in Edinburgh.
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The western breakwater protected Granton Harbour, to the east. At the north end of the breakwater was the Granton Esparto Wharf.
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This wharf was at the end of Granton Western Breakwater, on its south (ie harbour) side. Esparto grass was imported here for paper mills (such as Esk Mills). At the south end of the breakwater was a tight north to west curve which allowed trains to run east to Granton and Trinity [2nd] before continuing to the east of Edinburgh.
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This was the junction between the Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway)'s lines to the Granton western breakwater and Granton High Goods, and the connection to the former Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway (once a major transshipment point between the Caledonian Railway and North British Railway systems in Edinburgh.
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These sidings served a tank farm and distribution depot owned by Regent Oil / Texaco above Granton Harbour and north east of Granton Gasworks. Oil was supplied by sea, through West Wharf [Grantion] on the western breakwater, and oil distributed by rail and road. The depot closed when the wharf was closed on health and safety grounds.
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This Caledonian Railway goods yard was on the graded line which dropped down from Breakwater Junction (to the west) to Granton Square where exchange was had with the North British Railway close to Granton station. It had a goods shed and coal depot sidings.
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