Gorgie East
Location type
StationNames and dates
Gorgie [NB] (1884-1952)Gorgie East (1952-1962)
Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway.Description
This was a two platform station. Nothing remains of the station.
To the immediate east was Edinburgh Brewery, served by sidings approaching from the north. On the west side, and just to the north, was the goods yard, also approached from the north. North of both sets of sidings is Gorgie Junction.
The North British Railway's branch to Slateford Cattle Market [NB] was added, served from the north end of the goods yard and a coal yard added to the west of the yard.
There was a Gorgie South signal box after 1897, absorbed by the box at Gorgie Junction in 1931.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Merchiston Exhibition [CR] Exhibition [NBR] Murrayfield Stadium [Tram] Craiglockhart Slateford Balgreen [Tram] Balgreen Halt Dalry Road Slateford [2nd] Murrayfield Haymarket Haymarket [Tram] Pinkhill Morningside Road | Gorgie East Goods Gorgie East Minerals Edinburgh Brewery Gorgie Mills Gorgie West Goods Exhibition Junction [CR] Slateford Junction [1st] Gorgie Junction Caledonian Brewery Gorgie Tram Depot Slateford Railway Laundry Slateford Yard Blandford Chemical Works Tourist/other North British Distillery Tynecastle Park |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
