This line is closed. It ran from Eskbank (Hardengreen Junction), south of Edinburgh, to Peebles, later extended on to Galashiels. Between Eskbank and Hawthornden the line is now a cycleway, further south the line is partly ploughed-out but mostly walkable.
The line was built to carry passengers and goods from Peebles to Edinburgh.
Passenger and goods trains operated over the line.
The line ran south from Hardengreen Junction, south of Eskbank station, which was the junction with the former Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. From there the route ran near Penicuik south to Eddleston and Peebles. The line was later extended east, by the Galashiels, Innerleithan and Peebles Railway (North British Railway), to Galashiels to form a loop off the Waverley Route.
These locations are along the line.
This was the junction between the re-gauged Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway and the Peebles Railway. Hardengreen Yard was developed here and the Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway) later also reached this location.
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This was a double track junction formed with the opening of the Esk Valley Junction which met the existing Peebles Railway. Access to both was from the north.
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This was a two platform station in the south of Bonnyrigg, built by the Peebles Railway. Bonnyrigg also served by Bonnyrigg [EVR], to the north.
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More detailsThis signal box was south of Bonnyrigg station. It controlled the short line to Polton Colliery No 2 and Phillip's Siding.
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More detailsThis was a two platform station. The main station building was on the Edinburgh bound platform with a smaller building on the Peebles platform.
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This was the junction between the Peebles Railway of 1855 and the Penicuik Railway of 1872. The junction was to the south of a level crossing immediately south of Rosewell and Hawthornden station.
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This single platform station was the first to serve Roslin, although it was quite some distance to the south and involved crossing the valley of the River North Esk and the zig-zagging roads between the two.
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This halt was opened to the north west of Rosslynlee Hospital. It had a short platform (20ft) on the east side of the line.
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To the north of this level crossing were two sidings, on the west side of the line and approached from the south. The crossing keeper's cottage, with signal cabin at the north end, was on the west side of the line immediately south of the level crossing. Loanstone House and Loanstone village itself is to the north. There was no station here, Pomathorn was half a mile to the south.
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This was a two platform station with a loop. The main station building, of one storey, was on the northbound platform. To its south was a railway cottage There was a level crossing at the south of the station, the loop reversing to a single track to the south. The level crossing gates remained to accommodate two lines even after singling. The goods yard was on the west side, approached from the ...
More detailsThis level crossing was about midway between Pomathorn (north) and Leadburn (south).
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This was both a station and junction. It opened at Leadburn, a four way road junction and the site of the Leadburn Inn.
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This was a marshalling siding used in the very early days when locomotives were less powerful. A train could be set back here and combined with another southbound train going downhill to Peebles. This allowed heavy trains from the north to travel as far south as the siding as two separate trains before being combined for the downhill run to Peebles.
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This level crossing was south of Leadburn and Leadburn Summit Siding.
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More detailsThis was, very briefly a year after line opening, the site of a halt. It was located at a level crossing called 'Earlyvale Crossing'.
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This station was in the west of Eddleston. The station building still stands. This is a largely timber building, of a NBR style, extended at both ends. It had one platform, then two and returned to one before closure.
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This junction and signal box were in the north of Peebles. The box controlled the junction where the 1855 Peebles Railway was met by the 1864 Galashiels, Innerleithen and Peebles Railway (North British Railway). The junction left the original Peebles [1st] station on a short branch, replaced by Peebles [NB] to the south east on the new line. The old station became a goods yard. ...
More detailsThis was the original terminus of the Peebles Railway which was left on a spur when the line was continued east to Galashiels. A new station Peebles [NB] was provided on the new line in 1864.
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