Hardengreen Yard

Location type

Place

Name and dates

Hardengreen Yard (1880-1962)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.

Description

This yard was developed at Hardengreen Junction. The yard consisted of a number of sidings on either side of the Waverley Route, just south of Hardengreen Junction and a number of sidings on the east side, approached from the south.

There was a shed here for banking locomotives for both Falahill Summit and the Peebles loop.

Hardengreen Yard closed in 1962 with the opening of Millerhill Yard Up Sorting Sidings.

Tags

Yard

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67


Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Galashiels to Edinburgh: Including the Lauder and Dalkeith Branches - the Waverley Route (Scml)

Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844

Waverley: Portrait of a Famous Route