Wester Dalry Branch and Dalry Road Lines (Caledonian Railway)
Introduction
This line connected Edinburgh Princes Street station to the lines to Granton, Leith North, Barnton, Falkirk, Stirling, Perth, Dundee West, Forfar and Aberdeen. The line is now closed. The section between Haymarket West Junction and Dalry Road station is now a roadway. A short portion of the platform at Dalry Road still exists.
Dates
Locations along the line
These locations are along the line.
This junction opened was between lines westwards to Stirling, Granton, North Leith and Barnton, and Glasgow Central, Carstairs and Carlisle. To the east lines to Morrison Street Goods, Edinburgh Princes Street and Lothian Road Goods divided.
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See also
Caledonian Railway
David Panton 12/11/2018
David Panton 25/12/2019
David Panton 16/03/2020
David Panton 24/06/2018
Dalry Road Shed was located in the 'V' of the junction between the Caledonian Railway's Edinburgh branch and what was originally the Granton Branch, later the approach to Haymarket West Junction.
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David Panton 14/08/2021
David Murray-Smith 30/09/1959
David Panton 16/03/2020
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David Panton 27/04/2018
David Panton 27/04/2018
David Panton 27/04/2018
Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1961
This was a double track junction formed when the 1864 Coltbridge Junction to Dalry Junction curve was met with a new connection of 1876 westwards to Haymarket West Junction to give the Caledonian Railway access to locations west via the former Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
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David Panton 19/01/2018
Bill Roberton 16/11/2013
John Furnevel 21/06/1972
John Furnevel 09/03/2006
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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See also
Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway)
John Clark //1972
Bill Roberton 27/09/2010
Bill Roberton 27/09/2010
Bill Roberton 27/09/2010
This double track three arch viaduct carried the Wester Dalry branch from Dalry Middle Junction west to Haymarket West Junction.
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Ewan Crawford //1993
Bill Roberton 16/11/2013
John Furnevel 10/04/2006
This junction opened in 1876 when the Wester Dalry Branch and Dalry Road Lines (Caledonian Railway) opened, allowing Caledonian Railway trains from Edinburgh Princes Street to join the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway westbound and then, via the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway, join the Scottish Central Railway at Larbert Junction and run north to Stirling, ...
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Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Corstorphine Branch (North British Railway)
Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
David Panton 16/07/2018
David Panton 13/04/2019
Brian Haslehust //1963
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Martin MacGuire 20/05/2018
