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Powderhall
All photographs of this location in date order.
![60 084 seen on the Powderhall branch in July 1995.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1995]](/images/19000/19329.jpg "Powderhall")
![The driver climbs down from 60084 on 'Binliner' duties on the Powderhall Branch in July 1995. The view is towards Powderhall from the Dryden Terrace bridge. The right background has changed considerably over the last 20 years with housing on the former waste ground and the works demolished and built over. I should point out that the litter on the track must have been chucked from the overbridge as despite carrying nothing but landfill refuse the branch is mostly litter-free!<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/07/1995]](/images/51000/51824.jpg "Powderhall")
![View through the fence at the end of the line at Powderhall refuse depot in 1999. Note the anchored yellow box for the looped steel cable, used to position the container flats during loading and unloading [see image 12012].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/51000/51074.jpg "Powderhall")
![Looking towards Powderhall and the 'destructor' from the west end of the former Leith Walk station on a Sunday morning in August 1999. Part of the abandoned Shrubhill tram depot stands on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/1999]](/images/4000/4364.jpg "Powderhall")
![The loading apron at Powderhall depot in January 2003 with compacted refuse containers stacked in the background. The container flats are positioned using the cable running from the winchroom on the left and connected to the train via the yellow loop box between the rails.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2003]](/images/3000/3212.jpg "Powderhall")
![Partially loaded Binliner containers at Powderhall in January 2003. The containers in the distance at the rear of the train are standing on the bridge over the Water of Leith. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2003]](/images/3000/3213.jpg "Powderhall")
![Bridge over the Water of Leith near the north end of the former Powderhall station looking south in January 2003. A train of waste containers from the Powderhall 'destructor' stretches over the bridge. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2003]](/images/5000/5636.jpg "Powderhall")
![The original (and slightly spooky) refuse disposal works building seen looking west along Broughton Road, Powderhall, in March 2004. The building was originally dubbed <I>The Destructor</I>. Part of the modern waste processing and disposal facilities can just be seen to the rear. The bricked-up gateway in the wall on the right once led down to the platforms of Powderhall station, an area now used as a loading apron and siding by the <I>Binliner</I>. [See image 11948]<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/03/2004]](/images/1000/1899.jpg "Powderhall")
![The Powderhall branch looking south east from Powderhall Road towards Leith Walk in the summer of 2004, with the next phase of development about to get underway on the left [see image 13871].<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2004]](/images/59000/59630.jpg "Powderhall")
![An EWS class 66 locomotive arriving at Powderhall in October 2004 to pick up the early morning Binliner for Oxwellmains.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/10/2004]](/images/3000/3297.jpg "Powderhall")
![A class 37 stands on the Powderhall branch on a July morning in 2005. The locomotive has recently arrived from Millerhill and is awaiting completion of loading operations before picking up the daily 'Binliner' for Oxwellmains. <br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2005]](/images/63000/63151.jpg "Powderhall")
![A fine summer morning in July 2005 sees EWS 37427, running light engine from Millerhill to Powderhall depot, approaching its destination. The locomotive had been diagrammed to work the morning <I>Binliner</I> to Oxwellmains. [See image 4773] <br><br>[John Furnevel 14/07/2005]](/images/55000/55862.jpg "Powderhall")
![After running round its train a class 37 propels the empty Binliner containers into Powderhall depot on 3 August 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2006]](/images/10000/10144.jpg "Powderhall")
![Loaded refuse containers destined for Oxwellmains head south out of Powderhall behind EWS 66233 on 27 October 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2006]](/images/11000/11947.jpg "Powderhall")
![Looking north from the old station entrance on Broughton Road [see image 1899] over the site of the former Powderhall station (closed 1917), now part of a large Edinburgh Council waste dispopsal facility. EWS 66233 backs onto its loaded train of compacted waste containers in October 2006, while the fork-lift driver disappears for a well earned cuppa.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2006]](/images/11000/11948.jpg "Powderhall")
![EWS 66233 arriving at Powderhall depot on 27 October 2006, passing new buildings forming part of the rapidly changing landscape in this part of the city. The locomotive is on its way to collect the 14.10 (Fridays Only) <I>Binliner</I> for Oxwellmains.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2006]](/images/11000/11949.jpg "Powderhall")
![<I>That was rubbish!</I> Last of the refuse containers being loaded at Powderhall depot on 27 October onto the train which will form the recently introduced Friday afternoon <I>relief Binliner</I> to Oxwellmains.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2006]](/images/11000/11950.jpg "Powderhall")
![Cable haulage in use daily on a line in Edinburgh. The system is used at Powderhall depot to move the <I>Binliner</I> in order to position the required container flats alongside the loading/unloading apron. Note the steel cable, to which the vehicles are attached, running from the winchroom on the left, looped through the anchored (yellow) boxes between the rails running to a return loop box at the end of the siding [see image 51074]. Photographed on 27 October 2006, with a loaded container visible top right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2006]](/images/12000/12012.jpg "Powderhall")
![Looking west from the footbridge at the corner of Dryden Street in October 2006, as EWS 66233 takes a train of loaded refuse containers away from Powderhall depot on a Friday afternoons only <I>relief Binliner</I> working to Oxwellmains.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2006]](/images/21000/21467.jpg "Powderhall")
![The driver of 66230 applies the Order of the Boot as the morning <I>Binliner</I> pulls away from Powderhall refuse depot on 1 March 2007 with a full load of compacted waste containers.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2007]](/images/13000/13859.jpg "Powderhall")
![Early morning prowler. 66230 creeps along the Powderhall branch to pick up the morning <I>Binliner</I> for Oxwellmains on 1 March 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2007]](/images/13000/13871.jpg "Powderhall")
![EWS 66230 about to leave Powderhall depot with the <I>Binliner</I> on 1 March 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2007]](/images/14000/14246.jpg "Powderhall")
![Containers of compacted household waste, destined for landfill, forming part of the morning Powderhall - Oxwellmains <I>Binliner</I> service on 18 June 2008. Part of the train is standing on the bridge over the Water of Leith just north of the former Powderhall station, now part of a large Edinburgh Council refuse depot. Positioning of the container flats alongside the loading/unloading apron is carried out using the depots internal cable-haulage system [see image 12012]. Just beyond the bridge lay Bonnington South Junction, meeting point of the lines from North Leith and Granton.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/06/2008]](/images/19000/19527.jpg "Powderhall")
![View southeast along the branch from Powderhall depot on 18 June as 37401 waits for the loading of the morning <I>Binliner</I> containers to be completed before coupling up and taking the train to Oxwellmains.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/06/2008]](/images/19000/19545.jpg "Powderhall")
![60075 emerges from the shrubbery on the approach to Powderhall Refuse Depot with the returning <I>Binliner</I> empties on 8 October.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/10/2008]](/images/20000/20949.jpg "Powderhall")
![Powderhall station wasn't alone in closing as a First World War <br>
economy, but this one never reopened. The building remained pretty much intact until the 1960s when it was flattened, presumably to allow construction of the large refuse disposal works which (and is this irony?) is the only reason the line is still around today. A Binliner wagon can be made out through the vegetation. The bricked-up gates to the platforms from Broughton Road are also discernible in this photograph taken on 13 November 2010. The Scots Baronial-looking building in the background was the former Edinburgh Corporation Refuse Disposal Works [see image 1899]. Modest, but I suppose in the days of universal domestic fires there was far less refuse to dispose of. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 13/11/2010]](/images/31000/31562.jpg "Powderhall")
![Grey liveried 67015 nearing its destination at Powderhall depot on 12 February 2015 with the returning empty 'bins' from Oxwellmains.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2015]](/images/50000/50347.jpg "Powderhall")
![Although the Powderhall refuse depot is not completely closed, the 'Binliners', the branch's sole traffic, ceased last month and the rails are rusting. The left- behind containers can be seen here through the unavoidable vegetation. Will they be removed by rail, I wonder? Photographed 05/03/2017.<br><br>[David Panton 05/03/2017]](/images/58000/58411.jpg "Powderhall")
![The rusting tracks of the Powderhall branch, looking south east from Powderhall Road towards Leith Walk on 17 April 2017, more than two months after the last 'Binliner' ran. The heavily buttressed wall on the right will be one of many pleased at the cessation in daily vibrations caused by traffic on the branch [see image 13859]. Powderhall depot is due to close completely at the end of 2018 when the new facility at Millerhill comes on stream.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 17/04/2017]](/images/59000/59055.jpg "Powderhall")
![Disused waste containers stacked on the loading apron at Powderhall Depot on 17 April 2017. The last <I>'Binliner'</I> service between here and the Viridor Waste Management landfill site at Oxwellmains ran during February.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 17/04/2017]](/images/59000/59062.jpg "Powderhall")
