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This gas works was built for the Edinburgh and Leith Gas Commissioners. It was built west of Granton itself, on the far side of the Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway) and to the south of Caroline Park. This was a large gasworks which took several years to build, from about 1898 to 1908. Much use was made of concrete, the chimney of the Edinburgh Gas Works being demolished and used in the concrete.

The site had an internal railway system. Access to the public network was from Pilton West Junction on the Granton Branch (Caledonian Railway) which was in the south east of the site. Exchange sidings were on the east side of the site and Granton Gasworks [Station] was located in the south eastern corner.

From east to west were four large retort buildings and gasholders were in the north of the site.

There was a secondary railway connection, The Duke's Line, which ran by a series of reverse curves down to the Western Breakwater lines and continued along the south side of Granton Harbour to a triangular junction south of Granton station on the former Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway.

Reception sidings and lines within the works were lifted 1973/74 after the cessation of coal traffic. Two new sets of sidings for naphtha were laid out to the east of the former Granton Gasworks [Station]. These sidings survived until line closure in 1986.

The gasworks is closed.

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