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This level crossing was named for a farm formerly to the south of the level crossing.

This was a double track level crossing, the line becoming single immediately to the west.

Cairntows Signal Box (a small timber and brick gate box) was to the east, and protected the crossing. It also protected access to the Pentland Brewery to the west. A large lattice footbridge crossed the lines, on the east side of the crossing.

The line closed between St Leonards and Duddingston Junction in 1968 and the box closed.

Although the crossing is now gone the gate keeper's cottage remains on the north side of the line, west side of Duddingston Road. Alongside this, closer to the crossing, is a North British Railway period cottage which has been modernised.

Just west of the former level crossing the closed line crosses the 'B' listed Braid Burn Bridge.

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