Pencaitland
Location type
StationName and dates
Pencaitland (1901-1933)Opened on the Gifford and Garvald Light Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station. The timber platform was on the north side of the line and there were two sidings in the goods yard, both on the north side of the line and approached from the west. The station building was one of the small timber sheds typical of the line. To the west was a railway cottage.
By the 1960s the station building still stood but platform was removed, in common with the rest of the Gifford branch. the line closed in 1965.
The station site has been cleared but the trackbed is preserved and is now a walkway. There is a car park for the walkway. The railway cottage survived into the 1990s.
The large Pencaitland Maltings (opened in 1964, one year before line closure) now stands to the north and west of the former station.
The village of Wester Pencaitland was to the north with Easter Pencaitland a little further east.
Tags
StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Winton Ormiston Saltoun Macmerry Humbie Seton Seton Mains Halt Prestonpans Crossgatehall Halt Longniddry Wallyford Smeaton Wallyford [1st] Haddington Gifford | Pencaitland Maltings Brander^s Workshop Siding Pencaitland Pit Lempock Wells Siding Winton Mine Meadow Colliery Mill Pencaitland Colliery Ormiston Junction Winton Mine (Sebastapoll?) Tourist/other Tyneholm House Winton House Glenkinchie Distillery Saltoun Hall Ormiston Market Cross |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 14/10/1901 | Gifford and Garvald Railway Opened. Pencaitland, Saltoun, Humbie and Gifford opened. |
| 03/04/1933 | Macmerry Branch (North British Railway) Gifford and Garvald Railway Edinburgh (Monktonhall Junction) (excluded) to Gifford closed to passengers. Ormiston, Pencaitland, Saltoun, Humbie and Gifford closed. |
