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Edinburgh, Leith And Newhaven Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Junction between Caledonian Railway Granton lines and North British Railway Granton lines.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/387.jpg "Granton")
![Granton harbour from Above.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/388.jpg "Granton")
![Looking east along former course of line towards Trinity.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/389.jpg "Granton")
![The closed Trinity station viewed from the west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/390.jpg "Trinity")
![Class 47 at Trinity during the lifting of the line between Granton and Powderhall. View looks west.<br><br>[Alan Bain //]](/images/1000/1118.jpg "Trinity")
![Class 47 with flatbed train and crane lifting track at Trinity during the lifting of the line between Granton and Powderhall. View looks east.<br><br>[Alan Bain //]](/images/1000/1119.jpg "Trinity")
![The former Meadowbank station, looking west.<br><br>[Steven McConnell //]](/images/1000/1159.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![Shunting at Granton Harbour in the 1970s, view east towards Newhaven from the north side of Granton Square. The line was closed beyond Powderhall in 1986.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney //]](/images/22000/22631.jpg "Granton Harbour")
![Leith North's original connection with Waverley (or Canal Street) was<br>
via the line through Scotland Street tunnel. The 'main' line continued to Granton Harbour, and the Junction for the Leith branch was at Warriston. Here's the trackbed of the branch looking towards Warriston on 12 July. Fans of the spectacularly dull central Scottish town of Stoneybridge, brought to you by the cult TV comedy show 'Absolutely' in the early 1990s, will have no difficulty in recognising the model for the stoney bridge itself, as seen in the town council's promotional vide-o (it's vidayo!) along with the the shots of Breich's only real street and the since-demolished horrible clock in Tranent.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton //]](/images/29000/29774.jpg "Warriston")
![NB 4.4.0 62494 <i>Glen Gour</i> arriving at Piershill Station in October 1952 with an Outer Circle train.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 08/10/1952]](/images/7000/7148.jpg "Piershill")
![C16 no 67492 with the SLS Lothian lines railtour of 6 September 1958 seen here during the visit to North Leith terminus.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 06/09/1958]](/images/26000/26723.jpg "North Leith")
![C16 no 67492 with the the SLS <I>Lothian Lines Tour</I>, visiting locations in and around Edinburgh, stands at North Leith terminus on 6 September 1958. The train is about to undertake a circuitous route from here back to its final destination at Princes Street station.<br><br>[K A Gray 06/09/1958]](/images/28000/28517.jpg "North Leith")
![C16 4-4-2T no 67492 stands at North Leith terminus on 6 September 1958 with the the SLS <I>Lothian Lines Tour</I>. The train will leave shortly for the remainder of the tour, finishing at Princes Street station.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 06/09/1958]](/images/36000/36663.jpg "North Leith")
![J37 0-6-0 64625 passing through Piershill Station with goods vans in 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 31/05/1963]](/images/7000/7151.jpg "Piershill")
![A DMU from Waverley leaves Abbeyhill on a service to Musselburgh in June 1963 and is just about to pass below the station booking office on London Road.<br><br>[Colin Miller 01/06/1963]](/images/19000/19522.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![An early NBL 0-4-0 diesel hydraulic no D2705 has just turned off the ECML at Abbeyhill Junction in July 1963 and is seen running north through Abbeyhill station. One of a class first introduced in 1953, the locomotive was originally numbered 11705 by BR.<br><br>[Colin Miller 18/07/1963]](/images/22000/22469.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![J36 no 65234 stands at North Leith shortly after arrival with a branch line railtour in August 1964.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/08/1964]](/images/22000/22864.jpg "North Leith")
![J36 no 65234 stands at North Leith with a branch line railtour in 1964. The figure on the right is District Operating Inspector David G Kerr, a well known face on many such specials.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/08/1964]](/images/23000/23432.jpg "North Leith")
![Saturday 29 August 1964 was the day of the SLS/BLS J36 Railtour. The special, which was hauled throughout by 65234, visited selected branch lines in and around Edinburgh. The train is seen here at North Leith with participants returning to their seats prior to departure on the next leg of the tour to Penicuik [see image 23124].<br><br>[K A Gray 29/08/1964]](/images/40000/40741.jpg "North Leith")
![An NBL diesel shunter and brake van at Scotland Street coal depot in mid-1966, a year before closure. The impressive mass of the New Town's Scotland Street dominates the view to the rear, while immediately to the left of the brake van is the bricked-up tunnel which led up the hill to Canal Street station (adjacent, and at right angles to, Waverley). This cable haulage route opened in 1847, and from 1850 to 1868 (when the better graded route via Abbeyhill and Leith Walk stations opened) carried passengers bound for the World's first train ferry, from Granton to Burntisland.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //1966]](/images/35000/35845.jpg "Scotland Street")
![North British diesel-hydraulic 0-4-0 D2747 waits while coal wagons are unloaded at Scotland Street goods yard in mid-1966, a year before closure. From 1850 to 1868, passenger trains from Edinburgh Canal Street station (adjacent, and at right angles to, Waverley station) to the train ferry at Granton passed through the tunnel mouth in the background. A cycle and foot path now follows the old rail route northwards from here towards Granton. [See image 23311]<br><br>[David Spaven //1966]](/images/36000/36593.jpg "Scotland Street")
![Barclay 0-4-0 DM D2426 (later 06007) shunting at Leith Walk East, thought to be in 1969. The former railway land here was later occupied by the Royal Mail's Brunswick Road sorting office, although this has now (2015) been demolished to make way for new housing. [Ref query 9339]<br><br>[John Furnevel Collection //1969]](/images/53000/53435.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![View north west towards Trinity station on a dismal day in January 1970. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson /01/1970]](/images/27000/27814.jpg "Trinity")
![Barclay 0-4-0 no D2413 moving wagonloads of esparto grass away from the dockside at Granton in February 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson /02/1970]](/images/28000/28291.jpg "Granton")
![Wagonloads of esparto grass being taken away from the dockside at Granton on 16 March 1970. The locomotive is Barclay 0-4-0 no D2413 of Leith Central depot.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/03/1970]](/images/28000/28014.jpg "Granton")
![A pair of Claytons passing Trinity Junction northbound on 16 March 1970 with a trip working to Granton. Locomotives are thought to be D8616+D8610. [See image 20393 for the view sixteen years later]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/03/1970]](/images/28000/28063.jpg "Trinity Junction")
![A pair of Claytons with D8610 leading D8616, which had earlier worked down to Granton, seen here returning past Trinity Junction complete with brakevan on the way back to Millerhill in March 1970. Granton had been operated as a single line since the start of 1970, when all signalboxes beyond Easter Road Junction were abolished, hence the locomotives apparently running 'wrong line'. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/03/1970]](/images/28000/28095.jpg "Trinity Junction")
![EE Type 3 No D6857 lifts a block train of empty oil tanks away from Granton. The loco was allocated to Eastfield at the time, suggesting this is the Q (as required) working from Granton to Grangemouth, booked to depart at 10:25. Thought to have been taken on 16th March 1970<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 16/03/1970]](/images/46000/46336.jpg "Granton")
![The 09.38 train of Esso bogie tankers from Bowling has almost reached its destination on 26 May 1970 as EE Type 3 No. 6850 brings it cautiously across the Granton harbour access road. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 26/05/1970]](/images/40000/40552.jpg "Granton")
![Lochend Junction signal box in the late spring of 1971. The spur to Lochend North passes behind the box while the junction points of the London Road and Easter Road lines are immediately in front of it.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson //1971]](/images/35000/35921.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![View east at Lochend Junction in the late spring of 1971, with one of the floodlights of Meadowbank Stadium in the right background. The spur from London Road Junction is on the immediate left of the camera and beyond that the tracks to Easter Road Junction are seen dipping down to pass under the London Road Junction to Leith Central line. Furthest left is the spur to Lochend North Junction and Leith Central.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson //1971]](/images/36000/36001.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![A North British Railway point lever photographed at Leith Walk East in 1975.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1975]](/images/36000/36459.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![Part of the former workshops of the Edinburgh Leith and Newhaven Railway at Logie Green Road, Edinburgh, in 1977. The site is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/36000/36862.jpg "Logie Green Workshops")
![Looking south from Trinity Station through Lennox Row bridge, Trinity Tunnel and in the far distance the former Caledonian Leith North branch, in 1978. [Ref query 3669]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1978]](/images/52000/52442.jpg "Trinity")
![An unidentified class 26 shunts the yard at Leith Walk East on a snowy February day in 1978.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton /02/1978]](/images/36000/36116.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![Adjacent to Leith Walk East and the line to Granton, these two former departmental coaches were awaiting disposal on 8 February 1978. Furthest away is a Gresley suburban, while the closer vehicle carried the legend: BR TOOL & MESSING VAN - CHIEF ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT - SAWMILL SIDINGS - LEITH WALK - EDINBURGH - KDM 395890<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/02/1978]](/images/35000/35892.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![KDE 320983 (ex SC86774E) 1928 York, a 3-compartment Gresley Brake. Formerly of Irvine CS & TE, also chalked for S&T Perth. Awaiting disposal in Sawmill sidings, Leith Walk East, in February 1978.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/02/1978]](/images/39000/39140.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![KDM 395890 (ex SC11259M) 1930 Derby, a former 9-compartment coach. Latterly based at Sawmill Sidings, Leith Walk East, where it was photographed on 8 February 1978.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/02/1978]](/images/39000/39153.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![The former Trinity Station looking north in June 1978.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /06/1978]](/images/36000/36623.jpg "Trinity")
![View from the BLS <I>Lothian and Fife Wanderer</I> DMU railtour on 23 August 1980 as it passes the truncated siding into Leith Walk East goods (latterly a parcels depot) on the way to Granton.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/1980]](/images/24000/24397.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![60009 takes a railtour north through Abbeyhill station in May 1985 about to pass under London Road on which the old booking office can be seen. <br><br>[David Panton /05/1985]](/images/16000/16278.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![Remains of the former flat crossing at Bonnington in May 1985. View looks southwest along the old trackbed towards Warriston Junction and Scotland Street with Bonnington station and the line to Leith North directly behind the photographer. Crossing on the level from left to right is the line running up to Granton Harbour (latterly serving a Texaco oil depot) which had recently closed and which now terminates at the Powderhall waste disposal depot on Broughton Road off to the left. Both former routes are now walkways.<br><br>[David Panton /05/1985]](/images/16000/16902.jpg "Bonnington")
![Trinity October 1985 looking northwest towards Trinity Bridge just before line lifted.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1985]](/images/20000/20848.jpg "Trinity")
![Tracklifting is imminent in this view south from Trinity station in October 1985.<br><br>[David Panton 26/10/1985]](/images/21000/21823.jpg "Trinity")
![View looking west from Challenger Lodge along the embankment running between Lower Granton Road and the Firth of Forth towards Granton Harbour in November 1985 with track still in place.<br><br>[David Panton /11/1985]](/images/17000/17828.jpg "Granton Harbour")
![Commonwealth Games shuttle from Waverley arrives at Meadowbank Stadium in 1986. <br><br>[Bill Roberton //1986]](/images/15000/15659.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![The new station and ramp at Meadowbank Stadium under construction in 1986 in time for the Commonwealth Games. View southeast towards Piershill Junction and the ECML.<br><br>[David Panton //1986]](/images/18000/18703.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![Street sign outside the <I>Commonwealth Games</I> station at Meadowbank in 1986.<br><br>[David Panton //1986]](/images/21000/21584.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![View south towards Trinity Junction in March 1986, shortly after the last of the track had been lifted. To the right is the trackbed of the original line to Canal Street (subsequently cut back to Scotland Street), while to the left is the later route linking with the ECML at Abbeyhill and Piershill Junctions (which still runs as far as Powderhall). The bridge remains once carried the Caledonian Leith branch over the junction, running right to left between Granton Road and Newhaven. All signs of the the railway at this point have now gone, with the demolition of stonework, removal of embankments and skilful land filling resulting in cycle paths/walkways crossing here today on the same level [see image 26612]. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 21/03/1986]](/images/20000/20393.jpg "Trinity Junction")
![Trinity Bridge, of <I>tram pinch</I> fame looking south up Trinity Road. The photograph was taken in May 1986 at which time track was still in place but the branch had been disused for around two years. The former Trinity station, now a private house, still stands a short distance along the trackbed up on the left and Granton Harbour is half a mile further west along Lower Granton Road. <br><br>[David Panton /05/1986]](/images/17000/17829.jpg "Trinity")
![Looking east along the trackbed of the Granton Harbour branch in May 1986. View from Wardie, towards Newhaven.<br><br>[David Panton 11/05/1986]](/images/20000/20428.jpg "Granton")
![A pair of triple dmus heading back to Waverley from Meadowbank past Lochend South Junction on 29 July 1986 with a Commonwealth Games rehearsal special.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 29/07/1986]](/images/46000/46224.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![Heres one to sort out the anoraks from the obsessives. When ScotRail was invented by BR in the mid 1980s and started branding its station nameboards, the first station I saw get the treatment was Linlithgow and the ScotRail part was bright red not blue. I never saw the red anywhere else and the Linlithgow ones were eventually replaced by the blue version as seen here. The red was presumably a failed trial...does anyone have a photograph of the red version?<br><br>[David Panton /08/1986]](/images/18000/18694.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![116 388 standing at the single platform Meadowbank Stadium in August 1986 with a Commonwealth Games shuttle service from Waverley. View is northwest towards Lochend South Junction.<br><br>[David Panton /08/1986]](/images/18000/18695.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![A diverted Edinburgh - North Berwick DMU at Lochend South Junction in 1987. The trackbed heading off to the right ran to Leith Central.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/15000/15647.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![Diverted HST passes Meadowbank Stadium in 1987 during electrification work on the ECML.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/15000/15680.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![Looking across Anderson Place, Bonnington to a closed bonded warehouse since converted to flats, with a spur from Bonnington Goods Yard running across the road.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/57000/57452.jpg "Bonnington Goods")
![101 317 passes Meadowbank Stadium Halt on the Abbeyhill Loop as a HST approaches. Services diverted for ECML electrification in 1987.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/62000/62229.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![Tracklifting at Lochend Junction. The double track Abbeyhill-Lochend Junction section was being disconnected and Lochend Junction to Craigentinny Junction singled.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/06/1989]](/images/7000/7669.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![Looking to Lochend Junction (being lifted) from the single platform Meadowbank Stadium station (built for the Commonwealth games).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/06/1989]](/images/7000/7675.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![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")
![Street level building at Abbeyhill, now gone. View looks to Waverley.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1999]](/images/55000/55383.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![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")
![Remains of lines running west from Granton in 2002, which once served various industrial locations along the waterfront.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2002]](/images/3000/3222.jpg "Granton")
![The former station at Bonnington, looking west, in April 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/04/2002]](/images/2000/2707.jpg "Bonnington")
![The former Trinity station looking west towards Granton on 22 April 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/2002]](/images/3000/3821.jpg "Trinity")
![The former station at Trinity, on the northern edge of Edinburgh. Closed to passengers in 1925 and since converted to a private residence. Seen here in April 2002 looking west along the trackbed towards Granton.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/2002]](/images/48000/48754.jpg "Trinity")
![Traces of track running parallel with the waterfront west of the harbour in 2002. The old CR Granton goods shed stands on the left with the Gasworks in the centre background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/04/2002]](/images/3000/3223.jpg "Granton")
![The end of the pier at Granton Harbour in April 2002 with rails remaining along its length. The building on the right dates from 1842 and was originally built as a gunpowder store. <br><br>[John Furnevel 27/04/2002]](/images/3000/3382.jpg "Granton")
![The former Scotland Street station and tunnel in 2002. Opened in 1847, trains were rope-hauled by stationary engine from here under the New Town to Canal Street. The tunnel was closed in 1868.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/06/2002]](/images/1000/1058.jpg "Scotland Street")
![Interior of the former North Leith terminus in June 2002 looking towards the buffer stops. The warehousing in the background stands on the north side of Commercial Street. [See image 1070]<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/06/2002]](/images/1000/1069.jpg "North Leith")
![Frontage of North Leith station in June 2002. [See image 1069]<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/06/2002]](/images/1000/1070.jpg "North Leith")
![The remains of Leith Walk station in September 2002 looking distinctly tropical. View is north west towards Powderhall from a hole in the fence behind the bus stop at the top of the Walk. [See image 11943]<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/09/2002]](/images/2000/2067.jpg "Leith Walk")
![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")
![Looking north across the bridge carrying the former Granton branch across the Water of Leith on the approach to Warriston Junction in March 2003. <br><br>[John Furnevel /03/2003]](/images/3000/3180.jpg "Warriston Junction")
![Remains of the bridge carrying the former NB line across the Water of Leith from Bonnington East to Bonnington South Junctions in March 2003 [see image 5635]. The line continued on to Powderhall station on the site of which the waste disposal depot can be seen in the distance.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/03/2003]](/images/3000/3176.jpg "Bonnington")
![The second NB crossing of the Water of Leith between Bonnington South and East Junctions in March 2003. Beyond the bridge remains is one of the surviving columns which supported the higher level Caley line on its way to Leith East [see image 2196].<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/03/2003]](/images/3000/3181.jpg "Bonnington")
![Viaduct on the original Canal Street - Granton Harbour line crossing the Water of Leith. View west along Warriston Road in 2010, with Warriston Junction off to the right. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/03/2003]](/images/3000/3215.jpg "Warriston Viaduct")
![Looking south at the overgrown remains of Heriothill goods and the tunnel under Rodney Street/Broughton Road which originally took the Edinburgh, Leith & Newhaven through to Scotland Street and, ultimately, Canal Street. March 2003. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/03/2003]](/images/3000/3648.jpg "Rodney Street Tunnel")
![Looking north in 2003 over the remains of the southernmost of the two former railway bridges which spanned the Water of Leith between Powderhall and Bonnington stations [see image 3176].<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/03/2003]](/images/5000/5635.jpg "Bonnington")
![Site of the flat crossing of the lines from Granton and North Leith at Bonnington in March 2003. View is southeast towards Powderhall where the line currently terminates at the refuse disposal depot on Broughton Road, which can be seen in the right background. Off to the left is the former route to North Leith while to the right lies Warriston Junction, Scotland Street and, long ago, Canal Street. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/03/2003]](/images/57000/57120.jpg "Bonnington")
![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")
![Track running across Anderson Place in April 2004 into what was once a large bonded warehouse (now converted flats). Just one of a number of locations in the area once rail-served via the goods link from the North Leith branch east of Bonnington station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2004]](/images/3000/3196.jpg "Bonnington Goods")
![Bridge remains on the south side of the Water of Leith at Bonnington in April 1964. The bridge once carried the goods link that left the North Leith branch just east of Bonnington station to serve the industrial area south of West Bowling Green Street. [See image 3196]<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/04/2004]](/images/3000/3198.jpg "Bonnington Goods")
![Looking north along the path of the goods spur which left the North Leith branch east of Bonnington Station to cross West Bowling Green Street, where the former level crossing gates have since been replaced by the blue versions! A signal box stood to the right of the gates. Behind the camera the line then crossed the Water of Leith to reach the industrial area beyond. [See image 3198] <br><br>[John Furnevel 28/04/2004]](/images/3000/3201.jpg "Bonnington Goods")
![Sign above a hole in the north wall at the rear of platform 20 at Waverley (formerly Canal Street) in 2004. The tunnel once took the EL&N through to Scotland Street [see image 14741].<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/06/2004]](/images/5000/5876.jpg "Canal Street")
![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")
![Notice issued by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway dated 1 November 1836. <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 12/04/2006]](/images/22000/22820.jpg "Plates, signs and notices")
![Almost hidden by summer foliage, the platform at Meadowbank, Edinburgh, looking south in 2006. The station was built to serve the adjacent stadium which hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1970 and 1986, when a shuttle service operated from Waverley via Abbeyhill.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/07/2006]](/images/10000/10110.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![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")
![Eastern Breakwater looking across the Forth from Lower Granton Road in 2006. The missing bridge carried the line along the shore to Granton Harbour.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/08/2006]](/images/10000/10487.jpg "Granton")
![The former NB approach to Granton from the east along Lower Granton Road in 2006. The curve onto the pier and the link with the Caley line coming down from the Gasworks are now obscured by new developments.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/08/2006]](/images/10000/10666.jpg "Granton")
![EWS 66233 takes the 14.10 (FO) <I>Binliner</I> containers through deepest jungle towards Leith Walk on 27 October 2006 heading for Portobello and the ECML. The end of the up platform of the former Leith Walk station can just be seen on the bend [see image 2067].<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2006]](/images/11000/11943.jpg "Leith Walk")
![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 abandoned platform serving Meadowbank Stadium looking south east towards Portobello and the ECML in February 2007. It was built to handle the shuttle service from Waverley which ran during the Commonwealth Games. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2007]](/images/13000/13619.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![South end of Abbeyhill station on 12 February 2007 seen through a gap in the fence.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2007]](/images/13000/13628.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![The remains of Abbeyhill station on 12 Feb 2007 looking south towards Abbeyhill Jct and the ECML with Waverley off to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2007]](/images/13000/13629.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![The wall linking Edinburgh's old and new versions of tenement housing (!) spans the gap once occupied by the entrance and booking office of Abbeyhill station. View south on 12 February 2007 across London Road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/02/2007]](/images/13000/13630.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![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")
![The lines from Abbeyhill Junction turn north off the ECML with the surviving platforms of Abbeyhill station just round the curve. Grab shot from a passing train in March 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/03/2007]](/images/14000/14066.jpg "Abbeyhill Junction")
![The remains of Lochend South Junction in March 2007. The surviving line runs to Powderhall refuse depot. Left at the end of the fence was the Abbeyhill loop and to the right the line to Leith Central via Lochend North Junction and Easter Road Halt (alongside the football stadium).<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/03/2007]](/images/13000/13678.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![An EWS class 66 with empty <i>Binliner</i> containers returning from Oxwellmains, having just passed through Meadowbank, approaches the former Lochend South Junction on 19 March 2007 on the way back to Powderhall depot. <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/03/2007]](/images/14000/14088.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![Having just left the ECML at Piershill Junction 66184 turns north onto the Abbeyhill loop and towards Powderhall Depot with the returning <I>Binliner</I> containers on 19 March. The platform used for the Meadowbank Stadium Commonwealth Games stands on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/03/2007]](/images/14000/14151.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![View north from the top of Scotland Street tunnel over the station site on 25 April 2007 showing work currently underway on the reopening of Rodney Street tunnel as part of an extended cycle path/walkway under Rodney Street and Broughton Road.<br><br>[John Furnevel /04/2007]](/images/14000/14739.jpg "Scotland Street")
![Looking south towards Rodney Street tunnel on 25 April 2007, with clearance work underway courtesy Sustrans. The path on the left leads up to Broughton Road while on the right are remains of Heriothill goods. [See image 45235] <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/04/2007]](/images/14000/14738.jpg "Rodney Street tunnel")
![The western entrance to the former Scotland Street station and goods yard (now a childrens play area) seen on 25 April 2007, with the south portal of Scotland Street tunnel standing centre right. Above the tunnel is Scotland Street itself and the houses of Edinburghs New Town.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/04/2007]](/images/14000/14740.jpg "Scotland Street")
![View southeast showing the bricked up entrance to Scotland Street tunnel on 25 April 2007. The tunnel opened in 1847 allowing trains to be rope hauled under the New Town between here and the terminus at Canal Street (now part of the Waverley station site). The tunnel was closed in 1868. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/04/2007]](/images/14000/14741.jpg "Scotland Street")
![North portal of Scotland Street Tunnel from the site of the former station in May 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/05/2007]](/images/15000/15158.jpg "Scotland Street")
![Clearance work on Rodney Street tunnel seen from the site of Heriothill Goods on 25 June 2007. View south under Broughton Road/Rodney Street towards Scotland Street (now visible through the north portal) and the next tunnel, which eventually emerged at Canal Street terminus.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/06/2007]](/images/15000/15624.jpg "Rodney Street Tunnel")
![Remains of the former Heriothill goods, looking towards the north portal of Rodney Street tunnel on 29 September 2007. Work on reopening the tunnel through to Scotland Street is currently halted due to a shortage of funds.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/09/2007]](/images/16000/16765.jpg "Rodney Street Tunnel")
![View over the Water of Leith looking Northwest along Great Junction Street in November 2007. Down below on the left stood the platforms of Junction Bridge station, opened by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway in 1846 as Junction Road and, following the name change in 1923, eventually closed in 1947. The station booking office stood on the same level as the road bridge with the entrance straight ahead on the left. After passing below the bridge the line entered a tunnel under Coburg Street, off to the right, before emerging at North Leith terminus (also unofficially known as Leith Citadel) on Commercial Street. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 17/11/2007]](/images/20000/20453.jpg "Junction Bridge")
![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")
![View along the trackbed of the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway on 26 February from the north end of Rodney Street tunnel where reopening work is well advanced. The south end exit into the former Scotland Street station and King George V park can now be clearly seen. On the right are the remains of the old Heriothill goods facilities. <br>
<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22661.jpg "Heriothill Goods")
![Standing above the north portal of Scotland Street Tunnel looking over the former station site (now a play area) on 26 February 2009. Below is the new pathway and associated works being carried out in connection with the reopening of Rodney Street tunnel which will bring the existing North Edinburgh walkway/cycleway network under Rodney Street and Broughton Road into King George V Park. <br>
<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22662.jpg "Scotland Street")
![Site of the former Leith Walk station looking north west on 28 February 2009, over platforms substantially extant 79 years after closure, although some trouble has been taken to centre the remaining line, which now runs as far as the Edinburgh Council refuse depot at Powderhall.<br><br>[David Panton 28/02/2009]](/images/22000/22734.jpg "Leith Walk")
![Site of Leith Walk station, closed in 1930. The indentation in the pavement shows where the street-level buildings stood until demolition in the 1970s. <br><br>[David Panton 28/02/2009]](/images/22000/22889.jpg "Leith Walk")
![On leaving North Leith, the EL&N line entered a tunnel running under Coburg Street, emerging alongside the Water of Leith and the first stop at Junction Bridge (renamed from Junction Road in 1923). The north end of the tunnel, seen here from the station site in March 2009, has been bricked up and a play area formed, with stone steps now installed to provide a link across to Coburg Street. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2009]](/images/22000/22862.jpg "North Leith")
![The former 1846 Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven station at North Leith, now the Citadel Youth Centre, in the midst of a revamp, seen looking west along Commercial Street on 15 March 2009. The station lost its passenger service in 1947 but the line itself remained open until 1968. [See image 1070] <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2009]](/images/22000/22863.jpg "North Leith")
![The entrance to Junction Bridge station, opened by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway in 1846 (closed 1947), is now occupied by the metal railed section of the parapet seen here on the west side of the bridge carrying Great Junction Street over the Water of Leith. The platform below the bridge [see image 22902] stood on the north bank of the river with a stairway linking it with the former street level booking office. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2009]](/images/22000/22901.jpg "Junction Bridge")
![Standing on the site of the platform at Junction Bridge in 2009 looking towards North Leith. The station, a stones throw from North Leith terminus, opened as Junction Road in 1846. From here the line ran under the bridge on the left and through a (now filled in) tunnel below Coburg Street to emerge at North Leith terminus. (For a view of the North Leith end of the tunnel [see image 22862].) Access to the station was from a booking office on the bridge running across the picture carrying Great Junction Street (its former position on the bridge can be seen directly beyond the tree in the centre). The Water of Leith runs by on the right. Junction Bridge station closed in June 1947. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2009]](/images/22000/22902.jpg "Junction Bridge")
![View west along the platforms at Bonnington on 15 March 2009, with the two storey station building on the left providing access from Bonnington Road [See image 23037]. At one time in this view the centre of the bridge would have been bisected by the large and distinctive chimney of the old Chancelot Mill that stood in the background. This section of the North Leith branch was finally closed to freight traffic in 1968.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2009]](/images/23000/23036.jpg "Bonnington")
![At first glance, no 94 Newhaven Road, seen here in March 2009, might appear to be a bungalow attached to a tenement block. Not so. The building formed the entrance to the Edinburgh, Leith & Newhaven Railway's 1846 station at Bonnington on the North Leith branch and is part of a two storey building linking to the platform below [see image 23036] - the tenements actually came later! Bonnington station was closed to passengers in June 1947 but the line remained open for freight for another 20 years or so.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2009]](/images/23000/23037.jpg "Bonnington")
![Now forming part of the Water of Leith walkway, the photograph shows the 1846 station at Bonnington on the North Leith branch in March 2009. The building opposite, on the westbound platform, provided access from Bonnington Road bridge directly above the camera. Bonnington lost its passenger service as early as 1947, although the branch survived for freight traffic until 1968. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/03/2009]](/images/23000/23913.jpg "Bonnington")
![Looking north west under Leith Walk in April 2009, showing the fixed distant for Powderhall.<br><br>[David Panton 12/04/2009]](/images/23000/23296.jpg "Leith Walk")
![View north from the site of Scotland street station on 14 April 2009 through the newly reopened Rodney Street tunnel.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 14/04/2009]](/images/23000/23265.jpg "Scotland Street")
![A young woman with a pushchair walks from King George V Park, through the site of Scotland Street station towards the south portal of the newly reopened Rodney Street Tunnel, perhaps on her way to visit the superstore located alongside the northern approach. The old tunnel now provides a useful pedestrian and cycle link between this part of the New Town and the Broughton area, avoiding the need to cross two very busy roads. [See image 36593]<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 14/04/2009]](/images/23000/23311.jpg "Scotland Street")
![The former Abbeyhill loop diverged from the ECML just to the left at what is now called Powderhall Branch Junction. The first station was Piershill whose platforms started near the right hand edge of the picture. Although a line still survives here, running as far as Powderhall waste plant, no trace remains of Piershill station (closed 1964). A garage fills the gap of what was the start of the northern portion of Clockmill Lane which ran to meet the other (existing) part at London Road after skirting St Margaret's shed. All other traces of this too were swept away during the construction of Meadowbank stadium for the 1970 Commonwealth Games. <br>
Pictured on 3 June 2009. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 03/06/2009]](/images/23000/23964.jpg "Piershill")
![The NBR North Leith Branch, now a walkway, looking towards the terminus on 31 October 2009. A little behind me was Bonnington station, still substantially intact. Through the fence to the right ran the goods lines serving the once industrial Bonnington area, split in two by the Water of Leith which the lines crossed. There was a goods station at the start of the branch, then lines fanned out into a dense pattern serving tanneries, ironworks and the like. At one point a line formed a tight figure 4; presumably worth all the required reversing in a pre-motor age. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/10/2009]](/images/26000/26227.jpg "Bonnington Goods Junction")
![View north east from the site of Junction Bridge station on the North Leith branch on 31 October 2009. Beyond the bridge carrying Great Junction Street a short tunnel gave access to the terminus at North Leith. <br><br>[David Panton 31/10/2009]](/images/26000/26279.jpg "Junction Bridge")
![Please refer to map [see image 23914] and imagine yourself on the line to the left of 'Flour Mills' (the original Chancelot Mills) looking south. The 'LNER Loop Line' went through the trees to the left, and the abutments of that overbridge at the end of Dalmeny Road survive. A direct connection between Granton Harbour and Leith Docks must surely have been of limited use, and the map suggests the junction was already severed. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 25/11/2009]](/images/26000/26523.jpg "Bonnington North Junction")
![The site of Trinity Junction looking south on 25 November 2009. The removal of old embankments and bridge remains together with subsequent landscaping have made the location barely recognisable when compared with the same viewpoint in March 1986 [see image 20393].<br><br>[David Panton 25/11/2009]](/images/26000/26612.jpg "Trinity Junction")
![The site of Warriston Junction on a very wet 25 November, looking south [see image 23914]. Ahead is Scotland Street goods, and, originally, Canal Street station on the site of the present day Waverley. Trailing in from the left is the original line from North Leith. These lines spent most of their lives as goods only, being <br>
replaced by the less direct but easier route via Abbeyhill. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 25/11/2009]](/images/26000/26655.jpg "Warriston Junction")
![The area around the Water of Leith at Bonnington was once packed with industries like tanneries and foundries and was presumably not a pleasant place to be. Linking all those works with the outside world was a substantial network of sidings fanning out from The NB North Leith branch. Here is the only remnant I know of: crossing Anderson Place to the former VAT69 bond (now inevitably flats) in July 2010. It has surely only survived because removing it would mean lifting and relaying cobbles. <br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 12/07/2010]](/images/29000/29804.jpg "Bonnington Goods")
![The Abbeyhill loop and connection between Waverley and the Granton <br>
branch left the ECML at Abbeyhill Junction. When the ECML was <br>
electrified a decision was made not to electrify the loop and its fate was sealed. Whereas the Granton branch still exists as far as <br>
Powderhall the connection is only with the east as Abbeyhill Junction was severed in the early 1990s along with Easter Road Junction at the other end [see image 17507]. The trackbed is however intact and indeed there's still track up there and running through the remains of Abbeyhill station. This view of 29 September shows the line going over the street called Abbeyhill (not at all hilly). The ECML is just off to the left. That lone tenement is unusual, at least for Edinburgh, in having open landings. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 29/09/2010]](/images/30000/30931.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![The goods line which left the NBR North Leith branch just to the east of Bonnington station was many branched, but it crossed the Water of Leith only once. The southern abutment of the bridge is seen here on 13 November. Nearby is a lifelike statue of a naked man standing in the river. It was rather unnerving being alone with him, particularly as he was clearly not feeling the cold.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 13/11/2010]](/images/31000/31505.jpg "Bonnington Goods")
![An overbridge on the Caledonian's meandering goods branch from Newhaven to Leith Docks once dominated the scene here, running diagonally over a crossroads. Now only a practised eye can spot that the wall on the corner of Bonnington Road and Pilrig Street is a cut-down abutment. Behind it the commercial premises occupy the trackbed which was quickly flattened after closure in 1968 or so, but the embankment still exists at the other side of Pilrig Park [see image 25918].<br><br>[David Panton 13/11/2010]](/images/31000/31544.jpg "Pilrig Street")
![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")
![It is over 80 years since anyone caught a train at Leith Walk station. I imagine it succumbed to competition from the frequent trams up 'The Walk' as passenger trains continued to pass it on the way to the North Leith branch which didn't close until 1947 on the eve of nationlisation. The ticket office was set back from Leith Walk where these advertising hoardings now stand [see image 22889]. <br><br>[David Panton 15/01/2011]](/images/32000/32361.jpg "Leith Walk")
![Map showing LNER Leith Walk East Goods Station 1925 [see image 24397].<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32636.jpg "Leith Walk East")
![I'm standing in Smokey (sic) Brae on 12 February 2011 with the ECML above me and what is now the Powderhall branch bridging to the north. The branch leaves the main line at the accurately (if unimaginatively) named Powderhall Branch Junction to the right. This was called Piershill when the line went all the way to Granton and the Abbeyhill loop returned to the ECML via Lochend Junction. Piershill Station, which closed in 1964, was immediately to the left. A blocked up arch to the right, just before the ECML bridge, is carved 'Back Gate' referring to Piershill Barracks which closed c1930, the stone being used for the tenements which stand there today. <br><br>[David Panton 12/02/2011]](/images/32000/32870.jpg "Piershill")
![Meadowbank Stadium station had a mayfly existence, being built for the 1986 Commonwealth Games and being served only by specials from Waverley for the Games and for a couple of other events before and after. I remember it appeared on the Abbeyhill loop on the 'ScotRail East Network Map' posted in Haymarket's allocation of Class 101 DMUs, so perhaps it was once the intention to make this a regular stop on North Berwick services. As it was, the line was singled, leaving the only platform high and dry and the connection with Waverley at Abbeyhill Junction was also cut. The existing line though is in regular use by the Powderhall 'Binliners'. Looking towards the junction at Piershill on 12 February.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 12/02/2011]](/images/32000/32898.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![67007 passes the site of Meadowbank Stadium (1986-1988) with the 6B46 Oxwellmains - Powderhall empty 'Binliner' train on 6 September making its way back to Powderhall depot.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/09/2011]](/images/35000/35540.jpg "Meadowbank Stadium")
![All that remains of Abbeyhill Station, seen looking south from London Road on 6 September 2011, with the site now in use as a work compound. Track is still in place, but is largely buried by infill, while the up platform makes a useful storage area. [See image 22469]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/09/2011]](/images/35000/35610.jpg "Abbeyhill")
![DBS 67011 returns light from Powderhall to Millerhill at the former Lochend Junction on 11 October 2011. Here lines diverged left to Abbeyhill and right to Leith Central.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 11/10/2011]](/images/35000/35979.jpg "Lochend Junction")
![Scotland Street Tunnel and its distinctive backcloth seen on 23rd September 2012 - an interesting contrast with the photographer's shot from Spring 1966 [see image 35845].<br><br>[David Spaven 23/09/2012]](/images/40000/40709.jpg "Scotland Street")
![Entrance to Rodney Street Tunnel from the north in January 2013, with some of the remains of Heriothill goods on the right. At the far end is the site of Scotland Street station, followed by the longer tunnel that once took trains through to Canal Street [see image 41661].<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2013]](/images/45000/45235.jpg "Rodney Street Tunnel")
![About to leave the north portal of Rodney Street Tunnel, Edinburgh, on 8 January 2013. Opened by the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway in 1847, the tunnel eventually closed in 1968. It was reopened in 2009 and now provides a walking/cycling link between the Broughton area and the New Town, avoiding busy roads.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/01/2013]](/images/41000/41645.jpg "Rodney Street Tunnel")
![Leaving Rodney Street Tunnel southbound on 8 January the walker/cyclist emerges into the former Scotland Street station and goods depot, now a landscaped area, with King George V Park just off to the right. Straight ahead is the sealed north portal of the much longer Scotland Street Tunnel, through which early EL&N trains were hauled from Canal Street (now Waverley) under the New Town [see image 5876].<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/01/2013]](/images/41000/41661.jpg "Scotland Street")
![Close up of the north portal of the 1847 Scotland Street Tunnel, seen from the old goods station in January 2013 - now forming part of a basketball court. The west side of Scotland Street itself overlooks the scene with Royal Crescent running off to the right. [See image 5876]<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/01/2013]](/images/41000/41686.jpg "Scotland Street")
![The south portal of Rodney Street Tunnel on 8 January 2013 complete with walkers, bikers and shoppers. Photograph taken from the site of Scotland Street station. Below is a close-up of the commemorative plaque that now adorns the wall to the right [see image 41645].<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/01/2013]](/images/41000/41849.jpg "Rodney Street Tunnel")
![One of the NB's 3 termini in Leith this one on Commercial Street closed in 1947. A writer of 1884 regarded this is <I>a shabby building though it may have had claim at some time to be ornamental</I>. There's just no pleasing some people as it looks good enough to me 131 years on though it could maybe do with a full clean. Happily in permanent use as a youth centre in 2015, with a modern entrance at the platform end.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 08/02/2015]](/images/50000/50284.jpg "North Leith")
![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")
![Grey liveried 67015 running light through the former Leith Walk Station on 12 February having delivered the empty <I>Binliner</I> containers to Powderhall depot. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 12/02/2015]](/images/50000/50402.jpg "Leith Walk")
![The site of Junction Bridge station (closed to passengers in 1947) looking west towards Bonnington in February 2015. On 7 April 1941 a German bomb landed and exploded near here, on the embankment between the Leith platform and Largo Place, off Ferry Road. [See image 20453]<br><br>[David Panton 13/02/2015]](/images/50000/50350.jpg "Junction Bridge")
![Only a few hundred yards separated Junction Bridge station from North Leith terminus and most of it was in tunnel. The eastern end of the platforms ended under the bridge then the line swung left to go through the Coburg St tunnel, the mouth of which was to the left of this picture. Not a trace remains. A coal depot occupied the foreground. The branch closed to passengers in 1947, on the eve of nationalisation.<br><br>[David Panton 15/02/2015]](/images/50000/50385.jpg "Junction Bridge")
![Looking north across Warriston Viaduct along the route of the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway where it crossed the Water of Leith. Up ahead is the site of Warriston Junction, at which point it was straight on for Granton, bear right for Bonnington and Leith North. Photograph taken in December 2016, nearly 170 years after the line opened to traffic.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 01/12/2016]](/images/57000/57451.jpg "Warriston Viaduct")
![The original EL&N viaduct over the Water of Leith at Warriston, looking west along Warriston Road on 6 December 2016. The photograph shows a small section of the considerable flood prevention measures put in place along various stretches of the Water of Leith in recent years. For a comparison [see image 3215].<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 06/12/2016]](/images/57000/57469.jpg "Warriston Viaduct")
![Rusty rails. The Powderhall waste transfer station is now out of action.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 03/02/2017]](/images/57000/57990.jpg "Leith Walk")
![The welcome construction activity at the Shrubhill gapsite involves use of the former up platform for purposes for which it was never envisaged! Sadly the Powderhall refuse plant is to close next year and the branch with it. The council already has its eye on it for a cycleway. I understand though that NR will still have an option on the Abbeyhill loop trackbed so the junction at Piershill may not be dismantled.<br><br>[David Panton 20/02/2017]](/images/58000/58176.jpg "Leith Walk")
![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 remains of Leith Walk station looking north west towards Powderhall on 1 April 2017. On the right, development is now well underway on the site of the former Shrubhill tram depot.<br><br>[Andy Furnevel 01/04/2017]](/images/58000/58698.jpg "Leith Walk")
![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")
![Some remaining track on the middle pier of Granton Harbour, seen on 31st<br>
October 2017 looking north towards the Forth. The station was immediately behind<br>
me, and ahead and to the left was a rail-served ice factory. I'm not sure what that surviving building was, but it was rail-served too.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/10/2017]](/images/61000/61637.jpg "Granton Harbour")
![Although all traces of Granton Harbour station are long gone some track remains here on the middle pier. The station platform was where the roadway now is. The<br>
area is now residential, the western part of the harbour (right) having mostly been filled in. Looking south on 31st October 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 31/10/2017]](/images/61000/61651.jpg "Granton Harbour")
![Just yards from the end of the platform at North Leith (or Leith Citadel) terminus the line went into a short tunnel. Short though the tunnel was Junction Bridge station was practically at the other end so any train had barely got going. Here is the site of the northern end - the southern has been landscaped and there's nothing to see. There was a signal gantry across the tunnel mouth and the sheared-off ends remain.<br><br>[David Panton 04/11/2017]](/images/62000/62199.jpg "North Leith")
