Location type

Name and dates

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Description

This was a two platform terminus with substantial station buildings on both platforms. The station frontage had a considerable awning. There was a goods yard on the south/east side of the passenger station and the locomotive shed at the west end on the north side of the line. Opposite this was the signal box, closed in 1968.

The station was originally much smaller and the goods lines continued across the road to the gasworks. The site of those sidings is now flats.

It was located about half a mile to the west of the old town centre.

Local

North Berwick was very much a tourist destination after the railway opened, earning the name 'The Biarritz of the North'. Biarritz, a Atlantic coastal town, was developed as a tourist destination at the same time in the 1850s and was a popular place to stay for royal families. With Edinburgh in easy reach from North Berwick it is also a commuter town.

Tags

External links