Date: 06/06/2019

A former train station in Edinburgh could be restored as the centrepiece of a waterfront regeneration. The city council is pressing ahead with plans to regenerate Granton - which could include 4000 new homes, services, retail and cultural offerings to be built over the next 15 years. More than £1.7m of Scottish Government funding will be used to bring the listed former Granton train station back into public use.

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Train station to be restored nearly 80 years after closure

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Station will be centrepiece of waterfront regeneration in Granton area of Edinburgh.

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This building at the former Granton gasworks (note clues), seen here in December 2018, was not a station building as such, more an admin building with a workers' platform running through it. The platform went through the structure via a subsequently bricked-up arch (painted white) and workers then walked through the building and across a footbridge to the left. Trams never reached here and there was little housing nearby at the time the station was active, so the halt would have once been vital. My father remembers this building being a canteen in the late 1950s.
Location: Granton Gasworks
Company: Edinburgh and Leith Gas Commissioners
12/12/2018 David Panton