Corstorphine railway station
Corstorphine | |||||
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 The site of the former station | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Corstorphine, City of Edinburgh, Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 55°56′29″N 3°16′43″W / 55.941309°N 3.278732°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NT202727 | ||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Status | Disused | ||||
| History | |||||
Original company | North British Railway | ||||
| Post-grouping | London and North Eastern Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 1 February 1902 | Opened | ||||
| 1 January 1968 | Closed to passengers[1] | ||||
| 5 February 1968 | Closed to freight[1] | ||||
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Corstorphine railway station served the area of Corstorphine, in Edinburgh, Scotland, between 1902 and 1968. It was a terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway's Corstorphine branch line.
History
The station was opened by the North British Railway in 1902 and the line passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways upon nationalisation in 1948. It was closed by the British Railways Board in 1968.[2]
The train journey from Corstorphine to Edinburgh Waverley took 11 minutes.
| Preceding station | Historical railways | Following station | ||
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| Pinkhill | North British Railway Corstorphine Branch |
Terminus | ||
The site today
The site has since been built over by Mactaggart & Mickel, and is now occupied by the Paddockholm housing estate. Station Road nearby is named after its previous incarnation.[3][4]
References
Citations
- 1 2 "Corstorphine Branch (North British Railway)". RailScot. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
- ↑ Quick, Michael (September 2020). "Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronology" (PDF). The Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 137. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ↑ Bell, Raymond MacKean (2017). Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Leamington Books. ISBN 9780244644406.
- ↑ Clark, Alasdair (3 April 2021). "Edinburgh's abandoned railway stations and where you can find them: Corstorphine railway station". Edinburghlive.co.uk. Retrieved 10 June 2026.
Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Corstorphine railway station.
- Corstorphine railway station (site) Photos of the site today
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