Location type

Station

Name and dates

Bonnington (1846-1947)

Opened on the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station in a deep cutting. The road level building still stands, looked won on by the surrounding tenements built after the station.

The original station was largely to the west of Bonnington Road. Two curves stairways ran down from the road above to the platforms from the west side of the road. The station building was on the Edinburgh bound platform.

The Ordnance Survey Name Book described it thus

A small wooden shed and stone platform, on the Leith Branch of the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway where passengers are booked &c.

The platforms were extended eastwards to accommodate longer trains. The platforms, particularly the Leith bound, were very narrow. The stone built station building on the east side of Newhaven Road, of two storeys with the top at street level, dates from the enlargement.

To the west was Bonnington East Junction and to the west Bonnington Goods Junction.

The line was singled in 1960, the Edinburgh bound line being lifted. The line closed altogether in 1968.

The trackbed is now a footpath. The platforms and station building remain.

Tags

Station footpath

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.