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Penicuik

Dates

04/07/1855	Peebles Railway Opened from Hardengreen Junction (Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway) to Peebles [1st]. Stations opened at; Hawthornden, Roslin [1st], Penicuik [1st], Leadburn, Eddleston and Peebles [1st].
/ /1870	Penicuik Railway Act receives Royal assent.
/ /1870	Mauricewood Pit (Penicuik) Opened by Shotts Iron Works for ironstone. Gives impetus to the Penicuik Railway.
02/07/1872	Penicuik Railway Penicuik Railway opened from Hawthornden Junction (Peebles Railway) to Penicuik [2nd]. Stations opened at: Rosslyn [Penicuik Railway], Auchendinny and Penicuik [2nd].
02/07/1872	Peebles Railway Rosslyn [Peebles Railway] is re-named Rosslynlee. Penicuik [1st] is re-named Pomathorn.
16/02/1874	Penicuik Railway Rosslyn re-named Rosslyn Castle.
01/07/1874	Penicuik Railway Eskbridge opened.
/ /1876	Penicuik Railway North British Railway Penicuik Railway absorbed by North British Railway.
05/09/1889	Mauricewood Pit (Penicuik) Disaster; fire ~70 killed
/ /1909	Mauricewood Pit (Penicuik) Closed.
01/01/1917	Penicuik Railway Eskbridge closed.
02/06/1919	Penicuik Railway Eskbridge re-opened.
22/09/1930	Penicuik Railway Eskbridge closed.
05/03/1951	Penicuik Railway Auchendinny closed.
10/09/1951	Penicuik Railway Penicuik [2nd] to Rosewell and Hawthornden (Hawthornden Junction) closed to passengers. Rosslyn Castle and Penicuik [2nd] closed.
01/07/1959	Edinburgh Loanhead and Roslin Railway Glencorse (Penicuik Gas Works) to Roslin closed to freight.
27/03/1967	Penicuik Railway Hawthornden Junction to Esk Mills paper mill closed to freight.
27/03/1967	Peebles Railway Line closed from Hawthornden Junction to Hardengreen Junction (excluded). The route was latterly used by freight trains for access to the Penicuik Railway.