Pinkhill

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Pinkhill (1902-1968)

Opened on the Corstorphine Branch (North British Railway).

Description

This was a two platform station. There was a waiting room on the eastbound platform and a booking office on the overbridge to the west on Traquair Park East. There was no goods yard. There was a signal box briefly, it closed in 1906.

It was the nearest station to Edinburgh Zoo, opened 1913, to the north over Corstorphine Road. (Platforms signs read 'Alight here for Zoological Park'.)

The platforms still exist and the trackbed is now a footpath/cycleway.

Local

Edinburgh Zoo

Tags

Station footpath