Prestonpans
Location type
StationNames and dates
Tranent (1846-1858)Prestonpans (1858-)
Station code: PST National Rail ScotRail
Where: East Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the North British Railway.
Opened on the Tranent Branch (North British Railway).
Opened on the Prestonlinks Colliery Branch (North British Railway).
Open on the North Berwick Line.
Open on the Edinburgh to Berwick.
Description
This is a two platform station on the East Coast Main Line served by local trains. The main station building is on the eastbound platform. The goods yard and shed were on the north side at the east end, the site is now the car park. The signal box (1881) was on the south side of the line at the east end of the westbound platform.
The box was replaced in 1904 (the original was mid way along the westbound platform). The replacement was with the adding of further sidings for the Tranent Goods line and the opening of Prestonlinks Colliery.
To the immediate west is the Dolphingstone Deviation (Railtrack) and to the east was a goods line to Tranent Goods and a is a goods loop formerly for the goods yard and Cockenzie Power Station to the east. Also to the east the Tranent Waggonway crossed at right angles to the open railway.
The signal box closed in 1977, replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.
The line between Edinburgh Waverley, North Berwick and Dunbar is supported and promoted by the East Lothian Community Rail Partnership .
Local
The Battle of Prestonpans took place north and east of the station.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
01/06/2019
| Nearby stations Seton Wallyford Wallyford [1st] Seton Mains Halt Macmerry Ormiston Inveresk Winton Musselburgh [2nd] Crossgatehall Halt Fisherrow Smeaton Longniddry Musselburgh Pencaitland | Bankton Colliery Prestonpans Loop Bankpark Fire Clay Works Preston Links Colliery Siding Meadowmill Mine North Field Colliery Meadowmill Lye Bank Park Junction Gardiner^s Bridge Tranent Goods Tourist/other Colonel Gardiner^s Monument Bankton House Preston Market Cross Preston Tower Preston Grange Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 22/06/1846 | North British Railway Tranent, Longniddry, Haddington, Reston [1st] opened. |
| 20/04/2003 | Dolphingstone Deviation (Railtrack) 1.8 km deviation west of Prestonpans station opened at a cost of £56M, taking the new route south of the original alignment. The deviation was required due to mining subsidence. |
| /11/2011 | North British Railway Mural painted on the station building at Prestonpans. |
