Meadows Box [1st]
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PlaceName and dates
Meadows Box [1st] (1912-1916)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.Description
This box was located on the west side of Seafield Road Level Crossing (then called Seafield Crossing), on the north side of the line and backing onto the beach.
(The opening date of 1912 seems unlikely - the box is shown on the OS maps of 1896 and 1908.)
On opening, the Leith branch was single track. The Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway) line however was double track to both the line to the docks and to the town.
The box here dated from doubling of the NBR line. It was rather short lived as with the opening of Leith Edinburgh Dock in 1888 and Imperial Dock [Leith] in 1898 (opened particularly for coal export) the lines would need more capacity. Further, the increasingly busy level crossing at Seafield Crossing was a bottleneck.
In 1916 the Lothian Lines (North British Railway) opened here. The location became more complicated. See [Meadows Box [2nd] ]].
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Signal Box level crossingExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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| Nearby stations Jock^s Lodge Piershill Easter Road Park Halt Meadowbank Stadium St Margaret^s South Leith The Shore [Tram] Port of Leith [Tram] Leith Central Foot of the Walk [Tram] Easter Road Leith Walk [CR] Abbeyhill Portobello [2nd] Balfour Street [Tram] | Meadows Box [2nd] Meadows Junction Seafield Level Crossing Seafield Junction [CR] Seafield Road Junction Seafield Viaduct Craigentinny Meadows Box Leith South Turntable [NB] Meadows Yard Leith South Yard Seafield Shed [CR] Seafield Yard [CR] Restalrig Goods Leith South Timber Yard Tourist/other Albert Road Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
