Corstorphine Branch (North British Railway)

Introduction

This line is closed.






Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Balgreen tram stop occupies the exact location of Balgreen Halt, hard by the main line near Haymarket West Junction. The morning LNER Aberdeen to ...
David Panton 16/07/2018
A train for Glasgow via Cumbernauld passes Haymarket West Junction (and Balgreen tramstop) on 13 April 2019. ...
David Panton 13/04/2019
View near Haymarket West Junction, taken from an Edinburgh-bound diesel multiple unit, with an English Electric Type 4 accelerating an express in the ...
Brian Haslehust //1963
First class decadence - all before 10am on a Sunday! 'The Cathedrals Express' passes Haymarket West Junction on a trip from Edinburgh to Fife.
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Martin MacGuire 20/05/2018
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This was a two platform halt on the Corstorphine Branch (North British Railway) immediately west of Haymarket West Junction where the branch met the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The station was on an embankment. It had timber platforms and a metal footbridge.
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Balgreen Road bridge, south elevation. This side of the bridge is to be fitted with a 'collision protection beam'. ...
Network Rail /03/2022
The trackbed of the Corstorphine branch, closed in 1968 and now a public footpath, curving away from Balgreen on 13th August 2021. There are ...
David Bosher 13/08/2021
Network Rail is to install a collision protection beam on a railway bridge on Balgreen Road in Edinburgh to reduce the risk of damage if the bridge is ...
Network Rail /03/2022
The Corstorphine Branch curved off the main line at Haymarket West Junction and in 1934 Balgreen Halt was added here, just past the junction, when the ...
David Panton 12/01/2019
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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.
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Pinkhill station in 1967 with a Met-Cam DMU from Corstorphine to North Berwick arriving.
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John Clark //1967
A refuge in a bridge over nothing in particular, a little east of the site of Pinkhill station (for Zoological Park, as the signs said). Rather ...
David Panton 10/07/2021
The abandoned platforms of Pinkhill station looking east along the trackbed of the Corstorphine bramch in 2011. The original bridge carrying Pinkhhill ...
John Furnevel 31/05/2011
The old station building straddling the lines at Pinkhill (closed 1968) had always looked in good nick, but in recent years the rot seems to have ...
David Panton 25/12/2020
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This was a two platform terminus approached from the east. The station building was at the buffer end of the station. There were two carriage sidings to the south and a three siding goods yard to the north. A signal box was at the east end on the south side of the station throat.
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In August 1966 the Railway Society of Scotland sponsored a 'J36 Railtour' which started at Corstorphine and toured the suburbs of Edinburgh. The ...
Robin McGregor 27/08/1966
Metro-Cammell DMU at Corstorphine in 1966. ...
Brian Haslehust 19/08/1966
Metro-Cammell DMU at Corstorphine in 1966. ...
Brian Haslehust 19/08/1966
The Railway Society of Scotland August 1966 'J36 Railtour' started at Corstorphine and toured the suburbs of Edinburgh. The locomotive was Thornton's ...
Robin McGregor 27/08/1966
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