Loanstone Sidings
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Loanstone Sidings (1855-1962)Opened on the Peebles Railway.
Description
To the north of this level crossing were two sidings, on the west side of the line and approached from the south. The crossing keeper's cottage, with signal cabin at the north end, was on the west side of the line immediately south of the level crossing. Loanstone House and Loanstone village itself is to the north. There was no station here, Pomathorn was half a mile to the south.
Houses at Loanstone were used by paper mill and agricultural workers and it is likely that the sidings were for agricultural use and also for Esk Mill, before the 1872 Penicuik Railway opened.
The cottage and cabin are now a private house. The cabin may be the last remaining of the former line. The trackbed in both directions is intact and the site of the sidings can be found.
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SidingsExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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| Nearby stations Eskbridge Pomathorn Halt Penicuik [2nd] Auchendinny Rosslynlee Hospital Halt Glencorse Rosslynlee Rosslyn Castle Roslin Leadburn Rosewell and Hawthornden Polton Loanhead Lasswade Bonnyrigg | Esk Mills Pomathorn Mill Low Mill Valleyfield Mill Bank Mill Eastfield Colliery Penicuik Gas Works Dalmore Mill Old Woodhouselee Tunnel Auchendinny Tunnel Auchendinny Viaduct Firth Viaduct Tourist/other Valleyfield Monument Uttershill Castle Firth Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
