Leith High Depot
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Leith High DepotOpened on the Leith North Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This was a coal depot. Also known as the George Street Mineral Depot. This depot was largely to south of the goods and passenger lines, accessed from west (but also some lines to the north, accessed from east.
This was originally the site of a single road locomotive shed, approached from the west over a turntable.
The signal box at Leith High Depot Junction opened in 1879 and closed in 1964.
In 1964 the lines were slewed so that the goods lines closed and passenger lines were retained for goods to Leith High Depot and Newhaven Goods and Minerals. Latterly approach was only possible from the east.
The depot site has been built over.
Tags
Sidings coal depotAliases
George Street Mineral Depot
| Nearby stations Newhaven [Tram] Leith North Newhaven Ferry Road Newhaven [Leith New Lines] Bonnington Ocean Terminal [Tram] Junction Bridge North Leith Trinity [1st] Trinity [2nd] Pilrig Street Powderhall Foot of the Walk [Tram] The Shore [Tram] | Leith North Locomotive Shed Hawthorn Vale Depot Chancelot Mills [2nd] Leith High Depot Junction Caledonian Flour Mill Ferry Road Junction Leith North Goods Graham Street Junction Newhaven Goods and Minerals West Old Dock [Leith] Victoria Shipbuilding Yard [Leith] Queens Dock Graving Docks and Shipyard Leith Citadel Goods North Leith Tunnel Leith Mills |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 28/02/1968 | Leith North Branch (Caledonian Railway) Newhaven Junction to Leith High Depot Junction (excluded) (for the Leith High Depot) closed to freight. |
| 05/08/1968 | Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway) Leith High Depot to Leith North Goods (excluded) closed. (Latterly accessed via the Leith Harbour and Dock Commissioners Railway dock lines from the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway). |
