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Craigentinny Depot
All photographs of this location in date order.
![A class J37 0-6-0 passes Craigentinny signal box in the late 1950s heading south with a train of empties.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/32000/32241.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Smart looking A2 Pacific no 60537 <I>Bachelor's Button</I>, photographed passing Craigentinny box on 28 July 1955 with the up <I>Heart of Midlothian</I>.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/07/1955]](/images/30000/30174.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Gresley V2 no 60923 takes an ECML service south past Craigentinny signalbox in July 1955.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 28/07/1955]](/images/36000/36922.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Haymarket A2 Pacific no 60537 <I>Bachelor's Button</I> brings empty stock bound for Waverley out of Craigentinny sidings in 1958.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1958]](/images/26000/26456.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![B1s passing alongside Craigentinny signal box on 27 April 1958. On the left is 61398, with sister locomotive 61332 on the right. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/04/1958]](/images/27000/27808.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Gresley V3 2-6-2T no 67669 drifts tender first towards Craigentinny sidings in May 1958 on its way to pick up a train of empty stock. Craigentinny signal box stands in the background. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /05/1958]](/images/29000/29375.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![BR Standard class 5 4-6-0 no 73105 on manoeuvres at Craigentinny sidings on 26 May 1958. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/05/1958]](/images/29000/29067.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A busy scene at Craigentinny carriage sidings on Bank Holiday Monday, 26 May 1958, with A4 Pacific no 60024 <I>'Kingfisher'</I> in the foreground.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 26/05/1958]](/images/37000/37029.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A DMU bound for North Berwick passes Craigentinny signal box in June 1958. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /06/1958]](/images/26000/26760.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Thompson A2 Pacific no 60516 <I>Hycilla</I> takes an ECML service south past Craigentinny signal box in June 1958.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /06/1958]](/images/27000/27529.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A2 Pacific no 60521 <I>Watling Street</I> passes Craigentinny signal box on 19 June 1958 with an up freight comprised of first generation wooden containers. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 19/06/1958]](/images/33000/33130.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A North Berwick bound DMU runs past Craigentinny signal box on 24 September 1958. In the background a V1/V3 stands with an empty stock train from Waverley waiting to cross over into Craigentinny carriage sidings. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 24/09/1958]](/images/32000/32796.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A4 60031 <I>Golden Plover</I> takes a train south past Craigentinny signal box on the ECML in September 1958.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/09/1958]](/images/31000/31868.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Removing a trespasser from the East Coast Main Line alongside Craigentinny signal box in September 1958. (<I>Presumably on the lookout for 60021</I>) (Editors note: Please [see image 29099] to reduce e-mails!)<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 27/09/1958]](/images/35000/35673.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![St Margarets J37 0-6-0 no 64539 takes coal empties south past Craigentinny signal box in the summer of 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) /08/1959]](/images/36000/36908.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61007 <I>Klipspringer</I> gets the road out of Craigentinny sidings on 30 September 1959 with a train of empty stock bound for Waverley.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/26000/26982.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![D3730 rattles past Craigentinny westbound on 30 September 1959 with a motley collection of stock, described on the original slide as a <I>maintenance train</I>. [Additional info from David Kerr: This is in fact a tunnel inspection train consisting of an ex Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Inspection Saloon (for the Engineers), two wagons with elevated platforms (to access the tunnel crown) and a mess van (for the artisan staff). I believe the saloon was later condemned after sustaining derailment damage at Tweedmouth.] <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/27000/27043.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![B1 4-6-0 no 61146 with a train of empty stock for Waverley leaving Craigentinny sidings on 30 September 1959. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/28000/28670.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![The tunnel maintenance and inspection train heads west past Craigentinny signal box on 30 September 1959 behind D3730.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/28000/28789.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![The empty stock of <i>The Talisman</i> at Craigentinny carriage sidings on 30 September 1959. The set is in the process of leaving the sidings for Waverley banked by a V3 locomotive. [Note: Coach E1723E nearest the camera was half of one of the twin-articulated Open Firsts built for the LNER 'Coronation' streamliner service in 1937.</I>]<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/29000/29600.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![The empty stock of <I>The Talisman</I> being assisted out of Craigentinny sidings by V3 no 67670 on 30 September 1959. Classmate 67672 is standing on the adjacent line. Given BR's normal practice of marshalling a complete maroon set for <I>The Talisman</I> [see image 29600] the presence of <I>Blood & Custard</I> BR MkI BSO E9284 suggests it may have been substituted for a failure.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/29000/29616.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![B1 no 61146 is held at the exit from Craigentinny sidings on 30 September 1959 with a train of empty coaching stock bound for Waverley. Meantime A2 Pacific no 60534 <I>Irish Elegance</I> runs past with a westbound train on the main line.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/29000/29773.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![BR Standard class 4 2-6-0 no 76111 leaves Craigentinny sidings with empty stock in September 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/31000/31909.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![D3731 at Craigentinny in September 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/31000/31924.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![An unidentified Type 2 photographed on 30 September 1959 alongside Craigentinny carriage sidings.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/32000/32671.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Class J37 0-6-0 no 64566 of St Margarets shed trundles past Craigentinny sidings on 30 September 1959 with a lightweight load.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/33000/33011.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![B1 no 61343 brings coaching stock destined for Waverley out of Craigentinny carriage sidings on 30 September 1959. Seen in the background, just above the B1's tender, is the tunnel inspection train [see image 27043].<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/33000/33175.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Ivatt 2-6-0 no 46461 between turns at Craigentinny carriage sidings on 30 September 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/33000/33212.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Comings and goings at Craigentinny carriage sidings in September 1959 with Ivatt 2-6-0 no 46461 arriving as B1 4-6-0 no 61007 <I>Klipspringer</I> awaits the road to Waverley station with the stock of <I>The Talisman</I>. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/33000/33340.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![One of Haymarket shed's A2 Pacifics no 60519 <I>Honeyway</I> brings the down <I>Talisman</I> past Craigentinny carriage sidings on 30 September 1959.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1959]](/images/38000/38694.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![EE Type 3 No. 6858 passes Craigentinny box at the head of the 08.46 fitted freight from Carlisle Yard to Millerhill on 25 April 1970. The day being a Saturday, the train has been routed through Waverley Station rather than round the Sub, which would have been closed for the weekend. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 25/04/1970]](/images/37000/37351.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Immingham allocated Brush Type 4 No. 1882 passes Craigentinny Depot with the 21:00 Dagenham to Bathgate Upper loaded Cartic 4s. On weekdays this train ran via Millerhill Yard and the Sub, but the 25th April 1970 was a Saturday so it should have stayed on the ECML at Monktonhall Junction and is certainly running via Waverley station where a crew change was booked. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 25/04/1970]](/images/51000/51479.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Craigentinny depot, west end, viewed from eastbound train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8130.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Craigentinny depot viewed from eastbound train.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8131.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![An 08 shunts at Craigentinny.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/06/1989]](/images/7000/7674.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![43052 passes Craigentinny in 1989 with only a short time to go before the ECML electrification project completed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/06/1989]](/images/53000/53446.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Load Bank test locomotive ADB968021 (former 84009) at Craigentinny in 1991. Scrapped in 1995.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1991]](/images/56000/56928.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Wabtec shunter 08615 stands outside Craigentinny depot on 28 December. Grab shot from a passing train. <br><br>[John Furnevel 28/12/2006]](/images/12000/12852.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Network Measurement Train stopped at Craigentinny Depot for fuel on 3 March photographed through the window of a passing Newcraighall service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/03/2007]](/images/13000/13872.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A North Berwick - Waverley 322 service runs past the fuelling roads at Craigentinny in March 2007 with the main depot in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/03/2007]](/images/14000/14179.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![GNER Edinburgh - London train about to pass Craigentinny sidings on 21 March 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/03/2007]](/images/14000/14180.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![DR 98958 stands at the entrance to the wheel lathe shed at Craigentinny on 28 September 2007, awaiting the next fall of leaves. Photographed from a passing train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/09/2007]](/images/16000/16921.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A <I>Wi-Fi</I> adorned GNER HST power car standing alongside Craigentinny Depot, Edinburgh, on 20 November 2007. Photographed from a passing train. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/11/2007]](/images/17000/17240.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Motley crew at the west end of Craigentinny yard on 28 September 2007. Locomotives 47787, 67027 and 33029 are seen here from a passing train. <br><br>[John Furnevel 28/9/2007]](/images/16000/16745.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A Virgin Voyager stands in the refuelling sidings at Craigentinny on 8 January as work is carried out on the south side of the yard. Viewed from a passing train. <br><br>[John Furnevel 08/01/2008]](/images/17000/17710.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![47804 brings the empty stock of <I>The Royal Scotsman</I> out of Craigentinny sidings on 23 June 2008.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/06/2008]](/images/19000/19562.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Scene at Craigentinny on 23 June as 66132 passes on the main line with the empty <I>Binliner</I> containers from Oxwelmains returning to Powderhall, while West Coast Railway locomotives 47826 and 33025 stand in the east sidings.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/06/2008]](/images/19000/19572.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A rather out of date sign still clings to a lamp post in Mountcastle Crescent on 30 July 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 30/07/2008]](/images/20000/20194.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![A smart looking 37 676 <i>Loch Rannoch</i> stands in Craigentinny sidings on 3 June 2009.<br><br>[David Panton 03/06/2009]](/images/23000/23990.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![View from the window of a westbound train passing Craigentinny depot on 9 August 2013, just as an East Coast 225 set arrives in the sidings from Waverley <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/08/2013]](/images/44000/44895.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![The 11.47 Newcraighall - Glenrothes with Thornton runs past the west end of Craigentinny depot on 5 August less than 2 miles from its next stop at Waverley. The yard shunter in the background is WABTEC 08472. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/08/2014]](/images/48000/48286.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Wabtec 08472 at the west end of the yard at Craigentinny on 5 August 2014. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/08/2014]](/images/48000/48339.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Busy scene at Craigentinny Depot. 67013 passes with the Oxwellmains - Powderhall empty 'bins'. The New Measurement Train and a CrossCountry HST are in the yard. Beyond the latter can just be seen 73966, heavily rebuilt for use on the Caledonian Sleeper.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/11/2015]](/images/53000/53416.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Class 73s, in smart new sleeper livery, stabled at Craigentinny.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 05/03/2016]](/images/54000/54441.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![The west end of Craigentinny Depot with new construction under way - for what purpose?<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/06/2016]](/images/55000/55432.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Part of a small rail-themed sculpture garden in Figgate Burn Park next to<br>
Craigentinny depot. At leat one future Railscot contributor grew up around<br>
the 'Figgy Park' and the depot with its constantly clanking shunter. Made<br>
him the person he is.<br><br>[David Panton 27/09/2016]](/images/56000/56651.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
![Fife Circle loco-hauled carriages at Craigentinny - presumably to visit the lathe for tyre-turning.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/01/2017]](/images/58000/58040.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
!['Robin of Templecombe' at Craigentinny.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 22/01/2017]](/images/58000/58043.jpg "Craigentinny Depot")
