Abbeyhill
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StationName and dates
Abbeyhill (1869-1964)Opened on the Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway).
Description
This was a two platform station with waiting shelters at platform level and a booking office over the line on London Road and stairways running down to platform level. The station opened with the Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway).
Although the station did not directly have its own goods yard there was a coal depot just to the south, Rose Lane Goods.
The station was on a curving section of line. At the west end of the station was Abbeyhill Junction (with the North British Railway) and at the north end was London Road Junction [Edinburgh].
Closure was in 1964 although the platforms and booking office remained in place for many years. The Abbeyhill Junction to Piershill Junction loop closed in 1988. The booking office was removed in the 2000s. A platform remains here and some track may be buried under spoil.
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Station
| Nearby stations Easter Road Meadowbank Stadium Easter Road Park Halt St Margaret^s Piershill McDonald Road [Tram] Leith Walk Balfour Street [Tram] Picardy Place [Tram] York Place [Tram] Jock^s Lodge Leith Walk [CR] Edinburgh Waverley Leith Central Foot of the Walk [Tram] | Rose Lane Goods London Road Junction [Edinburgh] Iron Foundry Waverley Engineering Works Abbeyhill Junction Croit an Righ Brewery St Ann^s Brewery St Andrew Steel Works Easter Road Junction Lochend Junction Lochend North Junction Easter Road Stadium St Margarets Wagon Sheets Tourist/other Holyrood Abbey Palace of Holyroodhouse |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 02/03/1868 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway A new diversion opened to goods (Abbeyhill and Piershill to Trinity Junction with a spur onto the [North] Leith branch at Bonnington East Junction). This by-passed the cable operated incline between Canal Street [Edinburgh] and Scotland Street. |
| 22/03/1868 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway Passenger trains diverted from the Canal Street [Edinburgh] route to via Abbeyhill. A passenger station is opened at Leith Walk. |
| 01/05/1869 | Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway Abbeyhill opened on the diversion. |
| 22/07/1885 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway An act for a line between London Road Junction [Edinburgh] (by Abbeyhill) and Lochend South Junction (then called Lochend Junction) is passed. |
| 16/06/1947 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway Passenger services to North Leith withdrawn. Easter Road, Bonnington, Junction Road and North Leith stations closed on withdrawal of Leith to Edinburgh via Abbeyhill service. |
| 07/04/1952 | Leith Central Branch (North British Railway) Leith Central to Abbeyhill and Piershill closed to passengers. |
| 07/09/1964 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway Edinburgh; Abbeyhill Junction to Piershill Junction loop closed to regular passenger trains. Piershill and Abbeyhill stations closed. (Coinciding with the closure of Musselburgh [1st].) |
| 07/09/1964 | Musselburgh Branch (North British Railway) Musselburgh [1st] closed to passengers, resulting in the closure of Piershill and Abbeyhill on the Abbeyhill Loop. |
| /07/1986 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway Meadowbank Stadium station opened on the westbound track of the Abbeyhill to Piershill loop (for the Commonwealth games). |
| / /1989 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway Track singled from Piershill Junction to Powderhall, and the Abbeyhill route is disconnected at Lochend South Junction. |
| / /1994 | Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway Solum of Abbeyhill loop retained by British Railways on transfer of operational infrastructure to Railtrack. |
| /03/2000 | Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway) Rail Property wishes to sell 175m of trackbed at Abbeyhill for redevelopment and faces opposition. |
