Dalhousie
Location type
StationName and dates
Dalhousie (1847-1908)Opened on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway).
Description
This intermediary two platform station replaced the South Esk terminus of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway when it was realigned and re-gauged as a railway.
The station served the coal field to the east, north of Gorebridge where the mining village of Newtongrange developed. In 1908 the station closed, served by a more suitably located station at Newtongrange.
Little remains, except a station house on the west side of the line. This once featured a letterbox made from metal recovered from 'The Diver' the unofficially darkly renamed locomotive - NBR Drummond 4-4-0 No 224 - recovered from the sea bed after the collapse of the Tay Bridge [1st].
Tags
Station09/03/2021
| Nearby stations South Esk Eskbank Newtongrange [1st] Newtongrange Bonnyrigg Eskbank and Dalkeith Broomieknowe Glenesk Dalkeith Lasswade Sheriffhall [2nd] Sheriffhall [1st] Polton Rosewell and Hawthornden Gilmerton | Newbattle Viaduct [1st] Newbattle Viaduct Hardengreen Viaduct Dalhousie Catchpoints Tip West Bryans Siding Newbattle Signal Box Newbattle Brick and Tile Works Esk Valley Junction Newbattle Gas Works Eskbank Carpet Factory Bonnyrigg Catchpoints Eldin Colliery Hardengreen Yard Tourist/other Newton Grange Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 21/01/1832 | Marquis of Lothians Waggonway Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway line extended from Dalhousie by this line to various pits. Initially the line ran eastwards after crossing the South Esk to Bryans Pit. A branch (Arniston Branch (Marquis of Lothian's Waggonway)) was added south to Newbyres Colliery. A much later line was from Bryans Pit which ran south to Lingerwood Mine and northwards to Easthouses Pit (Newbattle Collieries Railway). |
| 02/06/1832 | Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway Passenger shuttle service started from St Leonards to Dalhousie by other company along the railway. |
| /07/1847 | Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway Dalhousie renamed South Esk. |
| 14/07/1847 | Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway) Portobello East Junction to Niddrie South Junction, Cairney to Millerhill, re-alignment at Sheriffhall [2nd] and Dalhousie to Gorebridge opened. |
| / /1880 | Tay Bridge and Associated Lines (North British Railway) 4-4-0 locomotive Thomas Wheatley's no 224 retrieved from bottom of River Tay, rebuilt by Dugald Drummond at Cowlairs Works, nicknamed The Diver and put back in service. A letterbox, belonging to Dalhousie station and now at the museum in Bellingham [North Tyne], was made from metal from this engine. |
