Port Edgar Extension (North British Railway)
Introduction
This short North British Railway extension took the South Queensferry Branch (North British Railway) on to a pier at Port Edgar. The branch included the North British Railway's sleeper creosoting plant, North British Creosote Works .
Portions of line and locations
This line is divided into a number of portions.
South Queensferry to Port Edgar
This was a single platform minor station. The timber platform was on the north side of the line. There was a waiting shelter at the west end of the platform and also at the west end the signal for the line to Port Edgar and the goods yard, formerly the terminus of the line, South Queensferry [1st]. There was a siding to the east. This station replaced the terminus. It closed with the ...
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South Queensferry Branch (North British Railway)
This was the terminus of the short extension of the line from South Queensferry [1st]. It opened in 1878, the year after the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway reached North Queensferry [1st]. The Queensferry Ferry crossing had been in North British Railway control since 1867 in anticipation of improved railways (South Queensferry [1st] had opened in 1868). The North ...
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Ewan Crawford //1997
Ewan Crawford //1999
Port Edgar Harbour
This was the terminus of the short extension of the line from South Queensferry [1st]. It opened in 1878, the year after the Dunfermline and Queensferry Railway reached North Queensferry [1st]. The Queensferry Ferry crossing had been in North British Railway control since 1867 in anticipation of improved railways (South Queensferry [1st] had opened in 1868). The North ...
More detailsEwan Crawford //1997
Ewan Crawford //1999
The harbour sidings were reached by reversal from Port Edgar. The North British Creosote Works (the North British Railway's sleeper creosoting works) were based here and the sidings were extended in the Great War.
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John Yellowlees 09/04/2021
Colin Miller 26/08/2014
