Pilrig Street
Location type
StationName and dates
Pilrig Street (1908-1908)Opened on the Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This halt was opened for a military review in 1908. It was to the east of a large lattice bridge over the Newhaven Road/Pilrig Street and Broughton Road/Bonnington Road crossroads (Bonnington Toll). The line was raised on an embankment here. The halt's name may have been Pilrig rather than Pilrig Street.
At the east end of the station the lines to the unopened Leith Walk [CR] and Leith Walk West Goods separated, access to the goods being from the west.
Rosebank Cemetery is to the south west.
The line was singled in 1917, however Pilrig Street was located on the loop between Bonnington (Rosebank) Goods (west) and Leith Walk West Goods.
Quick notes that the station appeared in the official handbook of stations for 1904, 1912, 1925 and is marked delete for 1927.
The line closed to the west in 1966, after cutting back Pilrig was the site of the reversing spur for Leith Walk West Goods. The line east closed in 1968. Access had latterly been from South Leith.
Tags
Station halt temporaryExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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NLS Map
| Nearby stations Powderhall Bonnington Balfour Street [Tram] Leith Walk [CR] Junction Bridge Foot of the Walk [Tram] Leith Central Ferry Road Leith Walk McDonald Road [Tram] North Leith Leith North Newhaven [Leith New Lines] Easter Road Newhaven | Bonnington Steel Works Bonnington Goods Bonnington Tannery Midlothian Oatmeal Works Bonnington Bond Weldun Boiler Works Rosebank Iron Works Bonnington Bridge Paper Works Bonnington (Rosebank) Goods Bowershall Engine Works Powderhall Bridge Junction Mills Powderhall Destructor Tourist/other Rosebank Cemetery Bowling Green Street Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1908 | Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway) Pilrig Street, a temporary station, opened for a Military review. |
