The curve of the Leith Central branch at the site of the short-lived (and seldom used) Easter Road Park Halt is called Lochend Butterfly Way. Surprisingly this has nothing to do with the insects per se, but comes the the lepidopteraform (OK, butterfly-shaped) plot of land bought for development in the early noughties. It was that shape because the vanished complex of railway junctions had left behind a brownfield site with the ‘wing-tips’ formed by Easter Road and London Road Junctions in the west, and Lochend North and Lochend (South) in the east. Now how many people know that?

Location: Easter Road Park Halt (former)

Original line: Leith Central Branch (North British Railway)

Photographer: David Panton

Contact photographer: David Panton

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Date: 23/03/2019

Image number: 68167

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