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Edinburgh And Dalkeith Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking west at Niddrie West Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/90.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Looking north at Glenesk Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/340.jpg "Glenesk Junction")
![Looking east at the former Dalkeith station, now a bus depot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/341.jpg "Dalkeith")
![Looking west towards St Leonards at Duddingston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/343.jpg "Cairntows Level Crossing")
![Looking south towards Dalhousie at Hardengreen Yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/344.jpg "Hardengreen Yard")
![View looking north over Millerhill Marshalling Yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/351.jpg "Millerhill")
![View looking north over Millerhill Marshalling Yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/352.jpg "Millerhill")
![View looking north over the new Newcraighall station under construction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/756.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Newcraighall station carpark seen from the north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/760.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Millerhill turnback siding seen from the road overbridge at the north end of Millerhill yard.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/762.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Level crossing in Leith Docks.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2076.jpg "Leith Docks")
![Monktonhall Colliery viewed from the north west before demolition.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/3000/3171.jpg "Monktonhall Colliery")
![Millerhill northern approach.<br><br>[John Furnevel //]](/images/5000/5379.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]")
![Newcraighall, just a few days before opening.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13941.jpg "Newcraighall")
![NBL Class D2/10 diesel hydraulic 0-4-0 D2730 of St Margarets shed in the yards at Leith South in the early 1960s. In the left background is part of the coaling stage of Seafield shed, the facility built by the Caledonian in 1902. It was subsequently leased to the NB and eventually became an outpost for St Margarets freight locomotives prior to eventual demolition in 1966. In the right background is part of the embankment that carried the Caledonian line up to the bridge over Seafield Road.<br><br>[K A Gray //]](/images/25000/25139.jpg "Leith South")
![Trans-shipment activity at Leith South (aka South Leith) goods depot in the 1980s. View is west from the entrance from South Leith (aka Leith South) yard. The depot was later 'rationalised' and the main goods shed replaced with a modern structure, but much too late. It was subsequently sold on to a private company. [see image 11661].<br><br>[Jim Peebles //]](/images/30000/30272.jpg "Leith South Goods")
![A merged image showing the main entrance to Leith South goods depot looking north east on Bath Road in the 1980s. The building on the far left was unoccupied at the time, with the depot's two permanent staff accommodated in the buiding alongside the entrance. A siding from South Leith yard can be seen terminating at buffer stops in front of a small wooden hut in the centre background. The crane on the horizon is standing on the south side of Edinburgh Dock. The old main goods shed to the right of the picture was later demolished and replaced by a modern structure [see image 11661]. Leith South goods depot was subsequently closed and the site, including the replacement goods shed, sold on. Last heard of in use by a recycling company.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //]](/images/30000/30277.jpg "Leith South Goods")
![Detail - Leith South goods depot - 1980s.<br><br>[Jim Peebles //]](/images/30000/30553.jpg "Leith South Goods")
![J35 0-6-0 no 64479 stands alongside the Forth on Seafield shed in the early 1960s.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //]](/images/35000/35877.jpg "Seafield (CR)")
![Diesel shunters D3902 and D2416 in Leith South yard in the early 1970s. [See image 5709]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //]](/images/50000/50388.jpg "Leith South")
![A pair of NBL diesel-hydraulic shunters nos D2728 and D2722 standing idle at the St Margarets outpost of Leith South in 1958. The mineral wagons in the background are on the embankment that carried the former Caledonian route from the eastern docks up to the bridge over Seafield Road. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1958]](/images/27000/27121.jpg "Leith South")
![NB diesel hydraulic no D2725 shunts at Leith South in September 1958. Note the viaduct in the background that carried the Caledonian line across Seafield Road. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1958]](/images/26000/26692.jpg "Leith South")
![NBL 0-4-0 diesel-hydraulic no D2724 shunts timber in Leith South yard in 1958.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1958]](/images/27000/27402.jpg "Leith South")
![One of the early batch of NBL diesel-hydraulic shunters initially allocated to St Margarets shed, D2726 is seen here shunting Leith South yard in September 1958. <br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1958]](/images/27000/27899.jpg "Leith South")
![A pair of Reid N15s (69173 & 69186) on duty in Leith South yard on 30 September 1958. In the background is the bridge bringing the Caledonian line into the eastern docks. The days of the N15s were numbered by this time as newly delivered NBL diesel shunters had already started to take over duties in the yard and the adjacent docks. [See image 27402].<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1958]](/images/30000/30318.jpg "Leith South")
![Class N15 0-6-2T no 69186 on duty in the yard at Leith South on 30 September 1958. View north towards the Forth with the Caledonian embankment running across the background.<br><br>[A Snapper (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 30/09/1958]](/images/32000/32798.jpg "Leith South")
![A busy shed yard at Seafield on 22 November 1959, with Reid J35 0-6-0 no 64489 centre stage.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/11/1959]](/images/34000/34484.jpg "Seafield (CR)")
![Class J38 0-6-0 no 65918 stands in the shed yard at Seafield in February 1960.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 07/02/1960]](/images/32000/32023.jpg "Seafield (CR)")
![St Margarets N15 0-6-2T no 69144 in the sidings alongside Seafield shed in February 1960. <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 07/02/1960]](/images/33000/33852.jpg "Seafield (CR)")
![J35 0-6-0 no 64510 with the SLS <I>Edinburgh and Dalkeith Rail Tour</I> at St Leonard's goods yard on 25th August 1962 - 115 years after the end of regular passenger services! 64510 had propelled the train up from the branch junction at Duddingston on the 'Sub'.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 25/08/1962]](/images/27000/27447.jpg "St Leonards")
![An SLS Railtour stands at the original Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway terminus at South Leith on 25 August 1962 behind Gresley V2 2-6-2T no 67668. This was the first passenger station in Leith, opened in 1832 as plain 'Leith', with the prefix 'South' being added in 1859. Date of final closure to passengers varies between 1903 and 1905, dependent on source of information and definition of 'last passenger train'. [See image 11374]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 25/08/1962]](/images/27000/27583.jpg "South Leith")
![The SLS (Scottish Area) 'Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railtour', hauled by Gresley V3 2-6-2T no 67668, at Dalkeith on 25 August 1962. The short branch from Glenesk Junction on the Waverley route [see image 30685] lost its passenger service in January 1942 and freight in August 1964. A significant part of the station site later became a bus depot.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 25/08/1962]](/images/33000/33530.jpg "Dalkeith")
![Cabside view of J35 0-6-0 no 64510 at St Leonard's goods yard on 25 August 1962 with the SLS <I>Edinburgh and Dalkeith Rail Tour</I>. [See image 27447]<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 25/08/1962]](/images/36000/36290.jpg "St Leonards")
![J35 0-6-0 no 64510 at Duddingston Junction on 25 August 1962. The locomotive took charge of the SLS <I>Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railtour</I> for the section between here and St Leonards terminus [see image 27447].<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/08/1962]](/images/36000/36313.jpg "Duddingston Junction")
![Gresley V3 2-6-2T no 67668 stands at Dalkeith on 25 August 1962. The locomotive had arrived with the SLS (Scottish Area) <I>Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railtour</I> from Waverley.<br><br>[R Sillitto/A Renfrew Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 25/08/1962]](/images/37000/37347.jpg "Dalkeith")
![The SLS (Scottish Area) <I>Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railtour</I> stands at Dalkeith on 25th August 1962. Locomotive in charge is Gresley V3 2-6-2T no 67668. Dalkeith had lost its passenger service in 1942 and would close completely in 1964. [See image 47542]<br>
<br><br>[Jim Currie (Courtesy Stephenson Locomotive Society) 25/08/1962]](/images/39000/39524.jpg "Dalkeith")
![<I>The enthusiast #1.</I> A young Craig Seath observes activity in Meadows Yard, between Leith Docks and Potobello, around 1963. View is from Wakefield Avenue looking towards the Forth with Seafield Road East on the other side of the wall beyond the mineral wagons. [See image 6696]<br>
<br><br>[Craig Seath Collection //1963]](/images/25000/25855.jpg "Meadows Yard")
![<I>'The opening of the Millerhill and Carlisle marshalling yards in 1962 and 1963 respectively had temporarily consolidated the role of the Waverley Route as a long-distance through freight corridor. You wouldn't see the ultra-new Freightliner container trains (one of the positive outcomes of the Beeching Report) passing through the Borders, but trunk flows of new cars and trucks from Bathgate, and modern cement and chemical wagons, were all part of the everyday railway scene between Edinburgh, Hawick and Carlisle.'</I> [Excerpt from <i>'Waverley Route: the Life, Death and Re-Birth of the Borders Railway'</i> currently being put together by Bill Jamieson, Bruce McCartney & David Spaven for publication in late 2011.] Photograph shows the north end of Millerhill yard in early 1963 with Newcraighall (Klondyke) Colliery dominating the background.<br>
<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) //1963]](/images/33000/33220.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![A Class 08 breasts the hump at Millerhill Up Yard on 23rd February 1963, just eight months after this massive new marshalling facility was created to rationalise yard provision in the Edinburgh area and streamline wagonload movements in the East of Scotland.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/34000/34499.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Amid the moonscape of the new BR Millerhill marshalling yard, a mixed 'cut' of parcels and goods wagons rolls over the up hump on 23rd February 1963. At this time the yard had been officially open for approximately eight months.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/36000/36794.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The photographer�s �wee black book� simply says <I>'Jimmy collects his container!'</I> Photograph taken at Millerhill Yard on 23rd February 1963.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/38000/38040.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Almost a desert landscape, as a pickup van waits on 23rd February 1963 to collect railwaymen from the Hump Office at Millerhill Up Yard, which had opened in June 1962 and initially handled 2,000 wagons a day.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/39000/39859.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Steam and diesel hauled trains at Millerhill Up Yard reception sidings on 23rd February 1963.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/41000/41765.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![View north at Millerhill on 23rd February 1963, with the main line to the left and the reception sidings for the Up Yard (opened eight months earlier) on the right. Newcraighall Colliery stands in the left background.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 23/02/1963]](/images/41000/41848.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![A V2-hauled goods from the ECML arrives at Millerhill South Junction on 21st April 1963, with the new Monktonhall Colliery prominent in the background and the Waverley Route running diagonally through the centre of the picture.<br><br>[Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven) 21/04/1963]](/images/35000/35723.jpg "Millerhill")
![NB 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> stopped alongside Niddrie West Junction signal box on 30 March 1964 with <I>Scottish Rambler no 3</I> during the leg from Bathgate to Dunfermline. <br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1964]](/images/49000/49981.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![78054 at St Leonards with the 1965 Scottish Rambler. <br><br>[G W Robin 19/04/1965]](/images/21000/21311.jpg "St Leonards")
![Scene at South Leith on 27 March 1967 showing D5317 with <I>Scottish Rambler No 6</I>. The view is west, with a siding continuing beyond the level crossing over Constitution Street to serve warehouses along Tower Street. The large building opposite, on the corner of Constitution Street and Tower Street, is the North British Cold Storage & Ice Co Ltd.</I> [See image 11374] for the view from the factory site towards the station forty years later.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 27/03/1967]](/images/29000/29821.jpg "South Leith")
![The signal box at Hardengreen Junction, looking north along the Waverley line towards Eskbank in December 1968. To the left is the trackbed of the Peebles loop. A locomotive shed was also located here (sub of 64A St Margarets), primarily to accomodate banking locomotives providing assistance on the climb south to Falahill. Eskbank station is on the other side of the bridge in the background. [See image 45679] <br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 22/12/1968]](/images/17000/17896.jpg "Hardengreen Junction")
![The last scheduled freight from Hawick at the south end of Millerhill Yard on 25th April 1969 near the site of Millerhill station (closed November 1955).<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 25/04/1969]](/images/26000/26210.jpg "Millerhill")
![The last scheduled freight from Hawick enters Millerhill Yard off the Waverley Route on Friday 25 April 1969.<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 25/04/1969]](/images/39000/39501.jpg "Millerhill")
![Clayton no D8505 at Millerhill depot on a Sunday afternoon in November 1969. Barely a year earlier, in December 1968, it had been seen in store in the old steam shed at Kingmoor, having been withdrawn after only about five years of service. However, it was subsequently reinstated and worked from both Polmadie and Haymarket depots before final withdrawal. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/11/1969]](/images/30000/30533.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Sunday 2 November 1969 finds green class 37 no D6841 basking in the late autumn sun at Millerhill depot.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/11/1969]](/images/30000/30751.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Class 40 no 257 at the head of a line of Type 4 power sitting out� <br>
the weekend at Millerhill depot on Sunday 2 November 1969. [The photographer's means of transport was the no 14 bus to Newcraighall and then Shank's pony - not the Morris Minor visible on the right.]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/11/1969]](/images/31000/31564.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Class 26 no D5328 sits out a Sunday at Millerhill depot on 2 November 1969, sandwiched between class 37 no D6844 and an unidentified class 26. Note the tablet catcher in the recess at the far end of the locomotive which, although then based at Haymarket, had spent most of the 1960s working from Inverness. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/11/1969]](/images/32000/32017.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Clayton D8612 waits to depart from Millerhill Yard with the 14.58 trip freight to the Royal Navy's Royal Elizabeth Depot at Dalmeny on 5 November 1969, with an additional brake van attached for the benefit of members of the Edinburgh University Railway Society. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/11/1969]](/images/27000/27647.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![BRCW Type 2 no D5306 runs into Millerhill Yard from the north on 5 November 1969 with a train of Presflos, thought to be the 1140 Irvine - Oxwellmains.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/11/1969]](/images/27000/27661.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]")
![A brake van carrying members of Edinburgh University Railway Society forms part of a the 14.58 Millerhill - Royal Elizabeth Yard trip freight standing ready to leave Millerhill for Dalmeny on 5 November 1969 behind Clayton D8612.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/11/1969]](/images/27000/27725.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Blue liveried Clayton D8606 on shed at Millerhill on 5 November 1969. (Railscot note: This is the locomotive that, as Hawick station pilot on the evening of 5 January 1969, was sent south in advance of the final train over the Waverley route to check out reports of demonstrations and disturbances further down the line towards Newcastleton [see image 21882]) <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/11/1969]](/images/27000/27773.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Class 45 no 118 on the Niddrie North to Niddrie West curve with a special train of empty Carflats, presumably from Bathgate to the Midlands, on 4th February 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/28000/28802.jpg "Niddrie North Junction")
![Class 47 no 1107 takes the direct route from Niddrie West to the ECML via Wanton Walls and Monktonhall Junctions on 4 February 1970. The train is the 1358 Bathgate Upper to Ripple Lane empty Cartic 4s.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/28000/28837.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 46 locomotive D186 accelerates away from Niddrie West on 4 February 1970 on the line to Millerhill.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/28000/28857.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 47 no 1764 with the 13.00 Granton to Prestwick oil tanks passes Clayton no 8608 on ballast hoppers at Niddrie West Junction on 4 February 1970.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/28000/28949.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Clayton no D8608 shunts ballast hoppers at Niddrie West in February 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29089.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 20 no 8322 just west of Niddrie West Junction with a short train of track panels on 4 February 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29106.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 26 no D5311 takes the line towards Millerhill at Niddrie West Junction in February 1970 with the 11.40 cement empties from Irvine to Oxwellmains.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29218.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![EE Type 4 no 266 approaches Niddrie West Junction with an unidentified fitted freight from Millerhill Yard in February 1970. The direct route to Monktonhall Junction and the ECML via Wanton Walls Jct is on the left and Newcraighall (Klondyke) Colliery stands in the background. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29325.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 40 no 284 passes the Niddrie West eastbound distant as it heads along the Sub towards Duddingston Junction with the 12.33 Millerhill to Craiginches (Aberdeen) in February 1970. This was booked as a class 7 express freight working but appears to be running as a class 6 fully fitted freight on this occasion.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29500.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 20 no D8120 approaches Niddrie West Junction in February 1970 with an unfitted freight from Millerhill, possibly the 14.56 to Mossend running early. This was booked as a class 8 freight but the headcode discs have unhelpfully not been deployed on this occasion. On the right are NCB internal lines and exchange sidings with the headgear of Newcraighall's <I>Klondyke</I> Colliery (production ceased in 1968) standing in the right background.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29596.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 26 no D5325 approaches Niddrie West Junction from Millerhill Yard in February 1970 with only a brake van in tow on what is probably an afternoon trip working within the Edinburgh area.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29687.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![D8120 approaches Niddrie West Junction with an unfitted freight from Millerhill, (possibly the 14.56 to Mossend) on 4 February 1970. Beyond and to the right of the signal box is the embankment that carried a section of the original 1835 Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway route towards Leith (closed in 1859).<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29795.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 37 No. D6903 standing at the north end of Millerhill Yard on Wednesday 18th February 1970 prior to working the 15.07 Millerhill to Leith South trip. The 1E3- reporting number suggests not that the loco has previously worked an up ECML express but that the right hand blind in the headcode box is inoperative, preventing the correct Edinburgh Area pilot number, E13, being displayed. Photographed from the veranda of a brake-van attached at the front of the train for an EURS party. The consist behind D6903 was about 20 loaded coal wagons plus two brake vans. The coal wagons were for Portobello power station and were deposited in the SSEB exchange sidings at Kings Road. This left just the two brake vans to take forward from Kings Road to Leith South yard (with thanks to Andrew Boyd).<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 18/02/1970]](/images/30000/30077.jpg "Millerhill")
![On 15 April 1970 No. 1992 is in charge of the 14.48 Glasgow FLT to Edinburgh FLT Freightliner service, seen here at Niddrie West Junction as it takes the spur to Niddrie North.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/04/1970]](/images/42000/42927.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A block working of cyclohexane tanks (with the obligatory barrier wagon marshalled between loco and train) passes Niddrie West Junction in April 1970 heading for Millerhill Yard. The headcode box on Brush Type 4 D1755 should have shown this as a class 6 rather than a class 8 freight - in all probability the crew hadn't changed it from a previous working.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/37000/37189.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Brush Type 4 No. 1797 takes the Niddrie South line at Niddrie West Junction in April 1970 with an unidentified southbound block oil train of Murco tanks. The direct connection to the ECMl is on the immediate right of the loco but a crew change was probably scheduled to take place in Millerhill Yard. The crew has obviously not yet come to terms with the then recently modified train classifications and should have been displaying 6 rather than 5E40, the latter now <br>
indicating an ECS working, which it clearly was not.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/37000/37807.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![EE Type 4 No. 256 takes the centre road at Niddrie West Junction on 15 April 1970 and heads for the ECML at Monktonhall Junction with a train of empty Carflats, which no doubt had originated at Bathgate. The train is thought to be a supplementary service run because of high demand for Ford vehicles which could not be satisfied by the booked return working (4S42 and 4E35) between Dagenham and Bathgate.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/41000/41492.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Brush Type 4 No 1765 eases the 13.58 Bathgate Upper to Ripple Lane empty Cartic 4s onto the Monktonall Junction line at Niddrie West in April 1970. Standing on the left is BR Sulzer Type 2 No 5067, the section ahead no doubt being occupied by another train - by 1970, the next open signalbox on the Sub was Morningside Road.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/42000/42299.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![D6857 & co at Millerhill in 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/1970]](/images/2000/2640.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Weekend off ....hump shunters at Millerhill on a Sunday morning in 1970.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/1970]](/images/2000/2642.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![<I>Not to be moved! So what's new?</I> Clayton D8613 up a siding at Millerhill on 26 April 1970. <br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/1970]](/images/6000/6348.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Scene at Niddrie West Junction in 1970 as 5068 passes Niddrie yard with a freight heading for Millerhill. In the centre is the direct freight link through to the ECML at Monktonhall Junction, while on the right is the sub. Beyond the sub are the remains of the trackbed that once climbed to meet the former Lothian Lines route that ran north from Wanton Walls Junction heading for Leith. Niddrie West signal box can be seen in the centre background. Niddrie West junction has seen many further changes over the years since this photograph was taken [see image 50652]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/04/1970]](/images/4000/4546.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![In my experience class 50s were quite rare in Edinburgh but I did note the 12.15 cement empties from Viewpark Sidings (Uddingston) to Holborough (Kent) so hauled as far as Millerhill Yard on a couple of occasions in the autumn of 1970. This is no 414 passing Niddrie West Junction with the train on Tuesday 13th October 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/32000/32389.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![5303+5304 approaching Niddrie West Junction on 13 October 1970 with MGR coal empties from Cockenzie power station returning to Fife. The train is using the direct route from Monktonhall Junction on the ECML via Wanton Walls. In the right background class 50 no 414 is approaching from Niddrie South Junction on its way back to Polmadie, having deposited its Holborough bound cement empties in Millerhill yard [see image 32389].<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/32000/32724.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Final picture of the day as the light starts to fade on a pleasant October afternoon in 1970. Clayton D8580 passes Niddrie North Junction at 16.39 with trip E13 from Leith South destined for Millerhill yard. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/32000/32912.jpg "Niddrie North Junction")
![Scene at Niddrie West Junction on 13 October 1970 with Clayton no 8510 on trip pilot duty E19, coming off the line from Monktonhall Junction with an engineers train.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/33000/33169.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 37 No. 6839 passes Niddrie West signal box and takes the line to Niddrie South with a rake of empty 16t mineral wagons in October 1970. The train is thought to be the 10.15 Mossend - Millerhill Yard. It is definitely not the 11.38 Ravenscraig No. 2 to Carlisle Yard which reported as 8M16. In all probability the loco had been to Carlisle and back the previous day and nobody had changed the reporting number for this trip.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/33000/33263.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 50 no 414 returning light engine from Millerhill to Polmadie [see image 32389] is stopped on the approach to Niddrie West Junction on 13 October 1970. The hold-up is caused by class 26s 5303 + 5304 snaking across the formation with MGR empties from Cockenzie PS destined for Fife. Niddrie West signal box stands in the middle distance with the outline of Arthur's Seat just visible through the haze.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/33000/33821.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Niddrie West signal box on 22 November 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/32000/32045.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Niddrie West signal box, photographed on Sunday 22nd November 1970 [see image 34323].<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/32000/32503.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Located on the branch from Portobello East to Leith South, just north of the bridge under Portobello Road, Kings Road Junction box controlled access to the sidings serving Portobello Power Station, part of which is visible in the left background. Photographed on 22 November 1970. [See image 33276]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/33000/33091.jpg "Kings Road Junction")
![These venerable wooden bodied vehicles were still being used in the early 1970s for the transport of grain between Leith Docks and the North British Distillery maltings at Gorgie [see image 29927]. I notice that wagon No. 120 in the SRPS collection was built for the Leith General Warehousing Co. by Hurst Nelson & Co. of Motherwell in 1903, so presumably No. 99 (on the left) was even older. Photographed at Leith South on 22 November 1970. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/33000/33139.jpg "Leith South")
![This interesting pair of ground signals was situated almost opposite the former Kings Road Junction signal box [see image 33091]. The photograph was taken in November 1970 looking towards Leith South. The left hand track would have given access to the power station sidings which were located south of Portobello Road and on the west side of the Leith South branch. Presumably there was a conveyor belt connection to the power station, which was separated from the sidings by Portobello High Street and Baileyfield Road.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/33000/33276.jpg "Kings Road Junction")
![Private owner grain hopper No. 48 belonging to Scottish Grain Distillers of Windygates, Fife, photographed in Millerhill yard on 22nd November 1970 <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/40000/40579.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Looking just like the Airfix model which I had constructed a few years earlier, a Blue Circle cement branded Presflo basks in late autumn sunshine at Millerhill Yard in 1970.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/41000/41581.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![This immaculate passenger rated ex-GWR fruit van had obviously just enjoyed an overhaul and repaint prior to being photographed in Millerhill Yard on 22nd November 1970.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/42000/42149.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![These air braked four wheel vans of type COV AB, standing in Millerhill Yard on 2nd December 1970, can only have been a few months old at the time (the one on the right bears the number 200001 so was presumably the first of its type).<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 02/12/1970]](/images/44000/44419.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![It's not obvious why these two loaded sets of Cartics 4s should have been stabled over the weekend in Millerhill Yard in December 1970 - perhaps they were faulty and had to be detached from the regular trainload service between Dagenham and Bathgate. The Ford vehicles appear to be a mixture of Mk 1 Escort cars and vans and Mk 1 Capris. [With thanks to all respondents]<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 05/12/1970]](/images/44000/44438.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Rolls Royce engined <I>Clayton</I> class 17 D8587 photographed just beyond Niddrie West Junction on the Millerhill line with a PW train c 1971. Running in parallel is the former direct route to Wanton Walls and the ECML, closed a short time later.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1971]](/images/19000/19442.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Room with a view.....� as seen from the cab of a Clayton Type 1 on the scrap line at Millerhill yard in 1971.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1971]](/images/27000/27047.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![D5302 passes Niddrie West Yard, Edinburgh, watched by the crew of NCB Lothians Area no 25 (Barclay 2358 of 1954) in the exchange sidings for Niddrie Landsale Yard in 1971. Beyond are vehicles belonging to the civil engineer who had taken over the sidings by this time.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1971]](/images/32000/32485.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Looking north at Lady Victoria Pit signal box in May 1971. The notice marks the end of yard working and the lower part reads <I>Trains must not proceed beyond this point without the permission of the signalman at Millerhill</I>.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 25/05/1971]](/images/40000/40914.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The signal box at Lady Victoria Pit, seen from the east side of the Waverley Route in May 1971 when the colliery was still rail served - although not for much longer. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 25/05/1971]](/images/40000/40967.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![A type 2 emerges from the early morning mist as it leaves the north end of Millerhill yard with a mixed freight in August 1971. The train has just passed one of the yards long disused water towers as it takes the left fork at Niddrie South Junction and heads for the westbound <I>sub</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/08/1971]](/images/4000/4539.jpg "Niddrie South Junction")
![5303 brings a Bilston Glen Colliery - Cockenzie power station coal train off the Roslin branch at the south end of Millerhill yard in 1971. The former Waverley route heads off left towards Eskbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/1971]](/images/5000/5547.jpg "Millerhill")
![View south over the Northwest section of Millerhill yard in September 1971. The main lines are over on the left and Monktonhall Colliery stands in the right background beyond the down departure sidings. [See image 33633]<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/1971]](/images/10000/10108.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Millerhill Yard north end in 1972 with a class 26 passing 365, and a 47-hauled train entering on the left.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1972]](/images/59000/59298.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Freight for the north leaving Millerhill down yard in November 1972 behind a pair of type 2 locomotives.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/11/1972]](/images/4000/4424.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![40058 stands at Millerhill in 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/14000/14078.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A class 40 with empty 16T mineral wagons enters Millerhill Yard from the north in 1974.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/34000/34224.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A scene of dereliction at Niddrie West Yard in 1974 with Arthur's Seat dominating the background. Niddrie West signal box still stands over on the right. [See image 32503]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/34000/34323.jpg "Niddrie West Yard")
![<I>'So... according to this ancient map, we should now be standing on the 'X' marking the precise spot where the treasure was buried..... </I> <br> Gaffers meeting at Niddrie West NCB exchange sidings in 1974. Shortly afterwards the sidings were rationalised and a hired BR class 08 shunter took over from the steam pugs. [See image 1071 for a pug in action at the same spot].<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/36000/36868.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Interior of Niddrie West Signalbox in 1976 [With thanks to Keith Bathgate, Donald Hillier and David Greig].<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1976]](/images/37000/37762.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Alongside Millerhill Depot at the north end of Millerhill Yard in 1976 a class 40 pauses with a train of presflos. In the background, beyond the MPD and up yard, a number of large piles of lifted track panels can be seen. The depot was demolished in 2016.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1976]](/images/57000/57813.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![The BLS 'Forth Fife Railtour' of 28 August 1976 at South Leith.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/08/1976]](/images/13000/13975.jpg "South Leith")
![A class 26 takes a freight south through Millerhill yard in 1977.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/13000/13463.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![08564 stands at the south end of Millerhill yard alongside the remains of the old station in 1977. <br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/13000/13466.jpg "Millerhill")
![The former goods shed at St Leonards terminus in 1977. Later used as <I>The Engine Shed</I> cafe. Since closed and currently (August 2015) being considered for use as a single malt distillery. [See image 17655]<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/52000/52405.jpg "St Leonards")
![Close up of the detailed warning notice above the entrance to the goods shed at St Leonards in 1977 [see image 52405].<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1977]](/images/52000/52414.jpg "St Leonards")
![Looking over the hump at Millerhill on a cold February day in 1978.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/02/1978]](/images/36000/36642.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A class 20 inside the servicing shed at Millerhill on 9 February 1978.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/02/1978]](/images/39000/39160.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Looking south over Millerhill down yard in April 1980, with Monktonhall Colliery coal loading facility in the right background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/1980]](/images/2000/2934.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![37083 preparing to leave Millerhill down yard in April 1980. Monktonhall Colliery stands in the right background. [See image 34402] <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/1980]](/images/4000/4433.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![A long lens view south over the down side of Millerhill marshalling yard from Whitehill Road on 22 April 1980, with Monktonhall Colliery dominating the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/1980]](/images/50000/50741.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![View south over Millerhill yard in the spring of 1980, with EE Type 3 37083 ready to leave with a freight.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/04/1980]](/images/60000/60504.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![View from the Branch Line Society's Lothian & Fife Wanderer on 23 August 1980 of Millerhill Station on the stub of the Waverley Route.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/08/1980]](/images/58000/58048.jpg "Millerhill")
![27016+27027 bring a coal train into Millerhill yard from the north in March 1981. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/03/1981]](/images/52000/52004.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![46029 with a trainload of pipes in Leith South yard in March 1981. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/03/1981]](/images/50000/50926.jpg "Leith South")
![A Renault car train waiting for unloading to be completed in Leith South yard on 9 March 1981.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/03/1981]](/images/50000/50961.jpg "Leith South")
![BRCW Type 2 27106 brings empty Cartics from Bathgate into the north end of Millerhill yard in April 1981. Over on the right tracklifting continues on the up side of the yard. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/04/1981]](/images/2000/2641.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![20175+20207 bringing a train of grain wagons into Millerhill Yard from the north in April 1981. Note the lifted track from the up yard stacked in the right background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/04/1981]](/images/50000/50806.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![A Busy looking Millerhill yard on 10 April 1981. On the left 27106 is arriving from the north with empty Cartics, while on the right 08720 is shunting the down sidings. [See image 52385]<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/04/1981]](/images/52000/52371.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Empty cartics arriving at Millerhill from the north in May 1981 behind 40184.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/1981]](/images/6000/6349.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![40184 arriving at the north end of Millerhill yard on 18 May 1981 with empty Cartics from Bathgate.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/1981]](/images/51000/51032.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![The remains of Niddrie West yard on 9 April 1982. The connection to NCB Niddrie Landsale Yard has recently been lifted and the signalbox has been demolished. [See image 34323]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 09/04/1982]](/images/51000/51569.jpg "Niddrie West Yard")
![The body of Park Royal railbus SC79971 in use as a bothy at Millerhill Yard on 28 April 1984. Later that year it would be buried at a landfill site because of asbestos content.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/04/1984]](/images/51000/51407.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Looking south over Millerhill Yard on a misty 28 April 1984. Tracklifting is well underway, with the down sidings being removed. [See image 52371]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/04/1984]](/images/52000/52385.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![26006 in the loco stabling sidings at Millerhill on 28 April 1984.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/04/1984]](/images/52000/52397.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Looking northeast in Bath Road, Leith in 1985 towards Albert Road and the docks. The lettering on the side of the building in the centre reads <I>Freight Depot - Leith South</I>, although it is invariably shown as <I>South Leith</I> on maps, as was the 1832 Edinburgh & Dalkeith passenger station that stood off to the left towards Constitution Street. (The E&D passenger station was simply known as <I>Leith</I> until 1859). [See image 30277] <br><br>[David Panton //1985]](/images/19000/19652.jpg "Leith South Goods")
![Millerhill MPD, and up yard, seen around 1985 from the north end. A very different scene today with the EGIP depot having opened here.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1985]](/images/62000/62995.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![A view north, perhaps around 1985, of the south end of Millerhill Yard looking north. The down yard reception sidings have been relatively recently lifted.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1985]](/images/63000/63035.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Looking towards the Down arrivals yard ('Millerhill Yard Carlisle Arrival Sidings') at Millerhill in the 1980s, with the lifted Waverley Route on the left and Bilston Glen branch on the right.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1985]](/images/63000/63077.jpg "Millerhill")
![Remains of Millerhill station, standing at the south end of Millerhill yard in April 1985. The building has since been converted into a house.<br><br>[David Panton /04/1985]](/images/18000/18724.jpg "Millerhill")
![A sorry looking 37402 <I>Oor Wullie</I> stands at Millerhill in 1987, presumably following a serious altercation with <I>Fat Boab</I> or similar.<br><br>[Alan Cormack //1987]](/images/20000/20982.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Monktonhall Colliery, located on the west side of Millerhill Yard, seen from the south in 1987. Closed in 1997 and since demolished, it will be the location of Shawfair Station on the reopened Waverley Route.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/34000/34196.jpg "Monktonhall Colliery")
![Looking north from Old Craighall Road in 1987 with the former Waverley Route running through Millerhill Marshalling Yard and the ECML chord and wagon repair shops to the right. The slow lines were being used for stabling.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/57000/57380.jpg "Millerhill")
![Thirty years ago.... looking west over Leith South Yard, still with grain, coal and pipes traffic. We were told (in 1980) that Leith South was the busiest freight terminal in Scotland. Don't think anything goes there now.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1987]](/images/59000/59005.jpg "Leith South")
![Looking north over Millerhill Yard from Old Craighall Road bridge on 18 March 1987, with the former Waverley Route main line running through the centre.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/03/1987]](/images/52000/52424.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Looking south towards Millerhill Depot in March 1987, with the lifted Down Yard in the foreground.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/03/1987]](/images/52000/52440.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![View south at Millerhill in March 1987 with the main yard behind the camera. The Bilston Glen branch bears right and the new ECML Electrification Depot is taking shape on the left.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/03/1987]](/images/52000/52465.jpg "Millerhill")
![The flask wagon for the nuclear submarines at Rosyth, seen at Millerhill in 1987.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 25/04/1987]](/images/59000/59942.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Mk1 DB977168 at Millerhill in April 1987. This coach was used to accompany the MOD Flask wagons.<br><br>[Alan Cormack 25/04/1987]](/images/59000/59943.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A 1-1-0 heads north through the former Down Yard at Millerhill on 5 June 1987. On the left is the loading hopper at Monktonhall Colliery.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/06/1987]](/images/52000/52477.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Part of Leith South Yard (lines 19 to 23) with ICI tanks in 1988. At this time the old part of the yard to the right and the former Caledonian yard site, further right, had not been redeveloped. View towards Leith docks.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/32000/32436.jpg "Leith South")
![26027 approaches with an engineers train. The Waverley Route main line has been severed with a modified connection (at 'Millerhill Yard Junction') into the Up Yard.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/04/1988]](/images/52000/52612.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![View from a North Berwick-bound dmu of Millerhill depot with the former Up Yard control tower on the right. The DMU was diverted via the Abbeyhill loop and Millerhill Yard due to electrification work on the main line.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1989]](/images/60000/60238.jpg "Millerhill MPD")
![Wagon turntable adjacent to South Leith goods yard, in 1989. The bollard would appear to be part of the mechanism.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1989]](/images/63000/63510.jpg "South Leith Goods")
![A 26 hauls a train out over Seafield level crossing and away from Leith.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/06/1989]](/images/7000/7677.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![Leith South yard viewed from the Caleys Leith East branch. An 08 shunts. [Additional by email; in the centre on road 19 are the white ICI tanks that were used for hydrocyanic acid traffic to Leith.]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/06/1989]](/images/7000/7678.jpg "Leith South")
![Loading rails in the yard at Baileyfield switch and crossing works in June 1989. [See image 6694]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/06/1989]](/images/48000/48382.jpg "Baileyfield")
![The diverted Birmingham train [see image 58378] has joined the main section of the South Sub at Niddrie West Junction. Another train hauled by a Class 37 loco is held at the signal possibly heading for Millerhill Yard. Arthur's Seat is wreathed in a summer haze in the background.<br><br>[Charlie Niven /07/1989]](/images/58000/58737.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![08793 awaiting the gates at Seafield level crossing on 25 July 1989 on its way from Millerhill depot to Leith South yard. [See image 50214]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 25/07/1989]](/images/50000/50250.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![37153 takes an ECML electrification train over the East/south chord at Millerhill in 1990. In the right background is the wagon repair shop while to the left is the cleared Waverley Route trackbed.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1990]](/images/56000/56757.jpg "Millerhill South Junction")
![47283 departs from Leith South with a fertiliser van train on 28 August 1991, passing stacks of pipes which have also arrived by rail. The former traffic has vanished, while pipe traffic is intermittent.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 28/08/1991]](/images/36000/36138.jpg "Leith South")
![A ballast train leaving Millerhill for the north in September 1991.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/09/1991]](/images/4000/4439.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]")
![An <I>InterCity</I> liveried class 37 locomotive leaving Millerhill Yard in September 1991 with a ballast train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/09/1991]](/images/46000/46294.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![View south over the former Down Yard at Millerhill in 1992 with Monktonhall Colliery in the background. The Borders Railway will veer to the right here through what is now a forest!<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/44000/44860.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Presumably en route to a scrapyard, 303082 stands in a siding in Leith South Yard on 22 June 1992.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/06/1992]](/images/35000/35690.jpg "Leith South")
![Platform scene at Eskbank station in 1995, with the old footbridge still in place.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1995]](/images/48000/48614.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![View north over the course of the main line in 1995. The forest hadn't quite got going yet at this date, but nature was taking over.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1995]](/images/62000/62017.jpg "Millerhill")
![Having just propelled its train of coal out of Monktonhall Colliery, 08411 draws forward from the former Bilston Glen branch towards Millerhill Yard on 27 February 1995. In the backround is the disused ECML Electrification Yard which utilised the Waverley Route sidings.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 27/02/1995]](/images/37000/37199.jpg "Millerhill Junction")
![There was a goods station at the site of South Leith passenger terminus on Constitution Street, a separate one only slightly further east at Bath Road, and a former CR one just off the same street. As to which was called Leith South and which South Leith (or something else) at any given time is hard to fathom. Anyway, I'm standing on the former trackbed with my back to Constitution Street looking east across Bath Road in April 1995. I think the branch then terminated across the road. This path was later heavily fenced off from Bath Road (why?) and is now completely overgrown.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton /04/1995]](/images/27000/27914.jpg "South Leith")
![This footbridge is adjacent to the Level Crossing on the South Leith branch at Marine Esplanade. As 1) there aren't many trains on this branch 2) Marine Esplanade is not nearly as alluring as it sounds and only directly leads to a sewage works 3) access to the bridge is almost impossible because of the vegetation I doubt anybody used this then (April 1995) or uses it now. [See image 28997] <br><br>[David Panton /04/1995]](/images/28000/28924.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![In April 1995 there was a path on the trackbed of the approach to the Bath Road crossing, which was once busy enough to warrant a footbridge. In May 2015 the path is no more, with palisade fencing on this side of the road too, the shrubbery now impenetrable and the yard lamp and pole gone. [See image 19652] for a view of the crossing in 1985, when the buidings were still in place.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 18/04/1995]](/images/51000/51461.jpg "Leith South Goods")
![Among the confusion of lines crossing this area was a freight-only route from Niddrie West Junction to the ECML facing east, joining it near the current Musselburgh station. It ran side-by-side with other lines for most of it's length, being unaccompanied only through the village of Newcraighall. The trackbed of that section is pictured here, looking east over Newcraighall Road in May 1995. The line was superseded in the 1960s by a less direct route through the new Millerhill Yard to Monktonhall Junction.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton /05/1995]](/images/28000/28056.jpg "Wanton Walls Junction")
![Transrail liveried 56072 leaves Millerhill yard northbound with coal empties in September 1995.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/09/1995]](/images/10000/10266.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Sidings on the east side of Millerhill Yard, occupied by engineers' wagons. To be the location of the new EMU depot?<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1996]](/images/57000/57400.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![The possible site of Sheriffhall Station looking towards Millerhill and Edinburgh. The original alignment was to the left of the view here with a tight almost right angle bend on the route later eased by the North British on conversion to a railway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/3000/3170.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![A 1997 view east along a very old trackbed. This is the Niddrie to Fisherrow alignment which was severed by the North British's 1847 Portobello to Niddrie South Junction line.<br><br>
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Off to the left is the 1884 line from Niddrie West Junction which opened in connection with the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway. This connected to the ECML at Niddrie East Junction and used a portion of the old Fisherrow branch, the junction with the ECML was moved further south with the opening of the Lothian Lines. This alignment closed in 1983.<br><br>
<br><br>
Further to the left, and built to coincide with the severing, the Fisherrow Branch was connected to the Portobello to Niddrie line by a 1847 north to east curve which met the Portobello line at Niddrie junction [2nd] where there was an interchange station ('Niddry Junction'). Thus a NB train heading for Fisherrow would turn south at Portobello, east at Niddrie Junction [2nd], pass over the NBR mainline before reaching Fisherrow. The line probably fell into abeyance when the new 1859 curve from Newhailes Junction to the Fisherrow/Musselburgh Branch opened. A portion - as above - was to re-open in 1884.<br><br>
<br><br>
This site and the three lines here have since been redeveloped.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/53000/53901.jpg "Niddrie Junction [1st]")
![Transrail liveried 60058 appears very poorly at Millerhill in 1997.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/07/1997]](/images/2000/2925.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The returning Dalzell - Lackenby steel flats approaching Millerhill yard on 8 July 1997 on their way south. Locomotive is 60031 in BR Railfreight Distribution (Metals Sector) livery. <br><br>[John Furnevel 08/07/1997]](/images/55000/55070.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]")
![Royal Scotsman stock leaving Millerhill behind 37406 <I>The Saltire Society</I> in September 1997.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/1997]](/images/2000/2987.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]")
![Transrail liveried 37406 <I>The Saltire Society</I> leaves Millerhill yard for Waverley in September 1997 with the empty stock of 'The Royal Scotsman'.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/1997]](/images/42000/42187.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![North end of Millerhill in September 1997, with 37108 on a departing PW train about to pass 60058 with the returning Lackenby steel flats.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/09/1997]](/images/2000/2974.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A PW train runs into Millerhill Yard on 2 November 1997 behind 37515.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/11/1997]](/images/3000/3310.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![37515 in BR Metals Sector livery entering Millerhill Yard from the north in November 1997 with a PW train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/11/1997]](/images/60000/60747.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A loaded coal train passing a slab train from Lackenby at the north end of Millerhill Yard in 1997. Both trains are hauled by class 56 locomotives. The EWS example on the coal train is unidentified, while the approaching Loadhaul liveried unit is 56045. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/11/1997]](/images/2000/2923.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![A Class 56 in <I>Loadhaul</I> livery brings a tracklifting train into Millerhill yard from the north in November 1997.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/11/1997]](/images/45000/45861.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![A pair of Transrail liveried class 37s entering Millerhill yard from the north in January 1998 with a spoil train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/1998]](/images/49000/49493.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![EWS 56117 heading north out of Millerhill yard with a coal train in the summer of 1998. This locomotive was withdrawn in 2010 and is one of a number of the class subsequently obtained by Hungarian freight operator Floyd for use in Europe.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/1998]](/images/45000/45722.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![37692 <I>The Lass O' Ballochmyle</I> in BR Coal Sector livery on the east side of Millerhill yard in June 1998. [Ref query 5091]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/06/1998]](/images/46000/46458.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![37893 shunts Baileyfield S & C Works in March 1999. Though still connected to the Leith South branch the site is no longer rail-served!<br><br>[Bill Roberton
/03/1999]](/images/54000/54091.jpg "Baileyfield")
![My first photo of a 66... 66050 parked in the headshunt near the wagon shops at the south end of Millerhill Yard, on 8 April 1999.<br><br>[Bill Roberton
08/04/1999]](/images/54000/54087.jpg "Millerhill South Junction")
![EWS 60053 heads north out of Millerhill yard with coal empties in September 1999.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/09/1999]](/images/46000/46110.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]")
![An unidentified Class 08 shunts the tip at the north end of Millerhill Yard in 2000.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Roberton //2000]](/images/61000/61784.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![EWS 66051 leaving the north end of Millerhill yard with coal empties in the summer of 2000. The entrance to the former up reception sidings on the right is completely overgrown at this stage, while Newcraighall station and its associated turnback siding are not due to appear for another two years.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/06/2000]](/images/42000/42065.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A trainload of coal empties on its way back to Ravenstruther restarts from a signal check at the north end of Millerhill Yard in June 2000. The locomotive is EWS 66051. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/06/2000]](/images/61000/61602.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Loaded and empty coal trains hauled by EWS class 66 locomotives pass at the north end of Millerhill Yard in September 2000 on the busy coal route between the Edinburgh sub and the ECML. The loaded train is hauled by 66049, with 66164 approaching at the head of the empties.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/09/2000]](/images/59000/59569.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Some serious mist and rain over Millerhill on a bleak October morning in 2000 as EWS 66049 takes coal empties north out of the yard towards Niddrie South Junction. It would be another year and 8 months before Newcraighall station would be opened on the other side of the road bridge in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/10/2000]](/images/44000/44618.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard [North]")
![EWS 66049 leaving Millerhill Yard northbound in October 2000 with coal empties bound for Hunterston.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/10/2000]](/images/57000/57140.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Part of the alignment to the north of Dalhouse of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway viewed from the trackbed of the Edinburgh and Hawick line in 2002. The line was extended south by the Arniston Branch of the Marquis of Lothian's Waggonway to Newbyres Colliery down the east side of today's A7. The Edinburgh and Hawick took an entirely new alignment south over the Newbattle Viaduct to Arniston running to the west of the A7.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2002]](/images/54000/54563.jpg "Dalhousie [1st] / South Esk")
![Track and sleepers ready to form a new turnback siding at the north end of Millerhill yard on 28 January 2002. The work was in preparation for the introduction of train services to the new station at Newcraighall, at that time under construction just beyond the bridge. The new services commenced some 4 months later [see image 3430].<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/01/2002]](/images/57000/57231.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![Coal empties restarting northbound from Millerhill yard in February 2002 following a signal check. Newcraighall station is under construction just beyond the bridge and part of what will become the new turnback siding is visible on the left. The new station and siding became operational four months later.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/02/2002]](/images/10000/10139.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![Three months to go before the opening of Newcraighall station and the points track-panel for the new reversing siding at the north end of Millerhill yard is ready to slot into place.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/03/2002]](/images/10000/10140.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![Only 9 weeks to go before the commencement of train services from the under construction Newcraighall station behind the camera. With the new reversing siding recently installed, work is now being carried out on the associated security fencing. [See image 10140].<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/04/2002]](/images/60000/60262.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Putting the finishing touches to the platform at Newcraighall, shortly before its official opening in June 2002.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /05/2002]](/images/47000/47555.jpg "Newcraighall")
![View over the graceful Glenesk Viaduct, some 6 miles from Edinburgh, looking south in 2002. The split of the Waverley route and the line to Dalkeith occurred at Glenesk Junction on the far side. The viaduct was built by the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway and dates from 1830. [see image 39780].<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/05/2002]](/images/33000/33085.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![158706 at Newcraighall on 3 June 2002, the first day of Edinburgh Crossrail services.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/06/2002]](/images/54000/54452.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Newcraighall viewed from the north end of Millerhill Yard on the first day of the new services, 4 June 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2002]](/images/1000/1077.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Platform scene at Newcraighall on 4 June 2002, the first day of operations, as ScotRail 158714, with a recently terminated service from Bathgate, prepares to run forward to the reversing siding at the north end of Millerhill yard.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2002]](/images/3000/3358.jpg "Newcraighall")
![A train leaving the new reversing siding at the north end of Millerhill yard for Newcraighall station (under the bridge) to commence a Newcraighall - Dunblane service on 4 June 2002, the opening day of passenger services between Newcraighall and Edinburgh Waverley.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2002]](/images/3000/3430.jpg "Newcraighall")
![A 158 pulls into the platform at Newcraighall in June 2002 ready to commence its journey to Dunblane. Having recently arrived as a Bathgate - Newcraighall terminating service, it has awaited its departure time in the turnback siding, the entrance to which can be seen just beyond the train. Meanwhile a class 66 hauled freight is held at signals in the background waiting to leave Millerhill yard.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/06/2002]](/images/4000/4239.jpg "Newcraighall")
![EWS 37427 with a lightweight load southbound past Newcraighall station on 10 June 2002 heading for Millerhill yard. The new single platform station had been officially opened a week earlier.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/06/2002]](/images/54000/54971.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Eskbank station building, July 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/07/2002]](/images/2000/2244.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![A busy scene at the north end of Millerhill yard on 10 December 2002. On the left a coal train is passing through behind a class 66, in the centre <I>Loadhaul</I> liveried 56118 is leaving for the north with a freight, while on the right 150250 is running into the turnback siding after recently terminating at Newcraighall on a service from Bathgate. The DMU will shortly form the next service to Dunblane.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2002]](/images/1000/1198.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A class 66 heading back to Millerhill Yard light engine slows on the approach to Niddrie South junction on 10 December 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2002]](/images/3000/3371.jpg "Niddrie South Junction")
![EWS 66233 finally gets underway following a lengthy signal check at the north end of Millerhill Yard in December 2002. The coal empties are destined for Ravenstruther. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2002]](/images/49000/49970.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Ah yes, I remember now, I got rather wet. A class 66 takes a freight past Niddrie West Junction during a freak rainstorm in December 2002 which lasted 8 minutes - exactly how long I stood on the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/12/2002]](/images/2000/2950.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A <I>Loadhaul</I> liveried class 56 about to leave the north end of Millerhill yard with a freight on a cold and frosty December morning in 2002.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/12/2002]](/images/2000/2740.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![EWS 66111 running light engine takes the line towards Millerhill Yard at Niddrie West Junction in January 2003. Arthur's Seat dominates the background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2003]](/images/43000/43264.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Westbound coal empties coming off the line from Millerhill yard at Niddrie West Junction on 21 February 2003 behind an unidentified EWS class 66 locomotive. <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/02/2003]](/images/3000/3784.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Looking south along the trackbed of the Waverley Route through Eskbank in 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/09/2003]](/images/1000/1906.jpg "Eskbank")
![Coal empties leaving Millerhill in December 2003.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/12/2003]](/images/2000/2792.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![A train entering the reversing siding at the north end of Millerhill in December 2003 after terminating at Newcraighall station (platform just visible under bridge) with a service from Bathgate.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/12/2003]](/images/4000/4525.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![View south at Millerhill on 2 December 2003 as EWS 66246 runs through with coal empties off the ECML heading for Hunterston via the sub.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/12/2003]](/images/58000/58504.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The north east corner of Millerhill up yard adapted to handle ballast. Seen here in December 2003 looking south from alongside the site entrance off Whitehill Road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/12/2003]](/images/3000/3447.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![Part of the former Meadows Yard in April 2004. Now a neighbourhood nature area.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2004]](/images/3000/3191.jpg "Meadows Yard")
![Road entrance to Leith South yard from Albert Road - April 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/04/2004]](/images/3000/3207.jpg "Leith South")
![Looking back from the entrance to the docks across Albert Road to Leith South yard, April 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/04/2004]](/images/3000/3208.jpg "Leith South")
![Gates that have seen better days. Seafield level crossing looking west toward Leith South yard in April 2004. [See image 4254]<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/04/2004]](/images/3000/3381.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![Coal train entering Millerhill Yard from the north in October 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/10/2004]](/images/3000/3772.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The ballast siding at Millerhill in October 2004 [see image 3447].<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/10/2004]](/images/60000/60231.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![Former level crossing at Duddingston on <i>The Innocent Railway</i> in 2004. View west across Duddingston Road towards Holyrood Park and the tunnel to St Leonards. [See image 17619]<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/11/2004]](/images/6000/6125.jpg "Cairntows Level Crossing")
![The low Autumn sun catches the afternoon 6M85 Bathgate - Washwood Heath car carrier empties entering Millerhill yard in November 2004 behind a class 60 locomotive.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/11/2004]](/images/10000/10088.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![EWS 60029 <I>Clitheroe Castle</I> entering Millerhill Yard from the north in November 2004 with empties returning from STVA Bathgate [see image 18357]. The train is passing a class 66 heading in the opposite direction with coal empties. The line visible top left is the reversing siding used by trains terminating at nearby Newcraighall station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2004]](/images/58000/58180.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![EWS 60029 <I>Clitheroe Castle</I> has just passed Newcraighall station on 23 November 2004 with a short train of empties from the STVA car terminal at Bathgate returning to Washwood Heath.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/11/2004]](/images/59000/59128.jpg "Newcraighall")
![A desolate Leith South yard in December 2004. Part of the sloping roof of Leith South goods depot can be seen on the extreme left of the picture above the filling station [see image 11661]. <br><br>[John Furnevel /12/2004]](/images/3000/3156.jpg "Leith South")
![Eskbank station looking south from the road bridge in December 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/2004]](/images/3000/3308.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Modifications underway at the privately owned former Millerhill station at the south end of the yard in December 2004. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/2004]](/images/4000/4436.jpg "Millerhill")
![Looking south in December 2004 at the remaining abutment of the bridge across Seafield Street which carried the E&D line on its way up from Meadows Junction and yard (off picture to the left) towards Seafield Junction. The stairs provide access to the trackbed, which is now part of a walkway. [See image 6697] <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2004]](/images/6000/6701.jpg "Seafield Junction [NBR]")
![The old Eskbank station on the Waverley route looking south in March 2005. The proposed new station will be half a mile further south behind the Tesco Superstore car park near the A7 roundabout.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/03/2005]](/images/5000/5740.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![View south along the Waverley trackbed passing through Eskbank station in March 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/03/2005]](/images/36000/36157.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Scene at the north end of Millerhill yard on 22 March 2005. A train of coal empties is heading for Niddrie West Junction and the 'sub' after a signal check. The cause of the delay, a recently arrived Bathgate - Newcraighall DMU, has just run into the turnback siding. The 4-car train will form the next service to Dunblane.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/03/2005]](/images/2000/2874.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A cold March day in 2005 sees EWS 66206 held at signals at the north end of Millerhill yard with a train of coal empties for Ravenstruther. The delay is due to a 158 service from Bathgate about to arrive at Newcraighall station behind the camera. The empty passenger train will shortly run into the turnback siding on the right [see image 2874].<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/03/2005]](/images/57000/57600.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Eskbank looking north - April 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/04/2005]](/images/3000/3499.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Platform shelter at Eskbank gradually being consumed by nature - 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/04/2005]](/images/3000/3500.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Pipes in the south sidings at Leith South yard on 11 April 2005. The pipes had been produced in Hartlepool and were coated at Leith prior to use in the North Sea gas/oil industry.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/04/2005]](/images/3000/3159.jpg "Leith South")
![Pipes being unloaded on the north side of Leith South yard - 11 April 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/04/2005]](/images/3000/3160.jpg "Leith South")
![Loading pipes onto road transport - Leith South yard - 11 April 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/04/2005]](/images/3000/3163.jpg "Leith South")
![Unloading a pipe train in Leith South yard, north sidings, in April 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/04/2005]](/images/3000/3167.jpg "Leith South")
![Train of empty coal hoppers for Leith Docks held at Seafield level crossing - 9 June 2005. Note the new LC gates [see image 3381].<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2005]](/images/4000/4254.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![EWS 66078 approaching Seafield level crossing out of the sun with coal empties from Cockenzie power station heading back to Leith Docks on 9 June 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2005]](/images/4000/4256.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![Coal empties and steel pipe flats at Leith South yard on 9 June 2005 with one or two of said steel pipes forming the backdrop. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2005]](/images/4000/4257.jpg "Leith South")
![EWS 66078 brings coal empties from Cockenzie power station over Seafield level crossing on 9 June 2005 on their way to Leith Docks. View east from the pedestrian footbridge - note the smart new crossing gates!<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2005]](/images/5000/5646.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![Coal empties from Cockenzie power station run over Seafield level crossing and enter Leith South yard on 9 June 2005 on their way back to Leith Docks behind EWS 66078. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2005]](/images/49000/49315.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![Looking across Leith South yard towards the Firth of Forth on 9 June 2005 as a train of empty coal hoppers is propelled towards the docks. The locomotive carrying out the manoeuvre is EWS 66078. On the nearer line pipes are being trans-shipped from rail to road transport.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2005]](/images/50000/50639.jpg "Leith South")
![A loaded coal train from Ravenstruther enters the north end of Millerhill Yard on 17 June 2005 behind EWS 66048. The coal is destined for Drax power station, North Yorkshire.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/06/2005]](/images/63000/63212.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![Having entered Leith Docks on 29 June 2005, EWS 66078 reverses its train over the dock exit road towards the coal terminal. Note the thick ropes in the foreground, normally jammed between the rails on the level crossing. This is to prevent the flangeways becoming blocked with mud and other debris, increasing the risk of a derailment.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2005]](/images/4000/4251.jpg "Leith Docks")
![Empty coal hoppers being reversed over an internal level crossing into the loading area within Leith Docks on 29 June 2005. The hoppers will be loaded with imported coal destined for Cockenzie power station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/06/2005]](/images/4000/4252.jpg "Leith Docks")
![Copy of an advice note, issued by the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway Company, from its St Leonard's distribution depot, regarding the delivery of 20 hundredweights of Jewel Coal, as supplied by New Craighall Colliery (sic), to Mr Johnstone, at 9 o'clock in the forenoon of July 2nd 1834 ...a most agreeable Wednesday morning I understand... <br><br>[Ian Dinmore 11/08/2005]](/images/22000/22439.jpg "St Leonards")
![A coal train for Cockenzie leaves Leith Docks via South Leith yard and emerges from the bridge under Seafield Road in February 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel /02/2006]](/images/6000/6695.jpg "Meadows Yard")
![VAE Baileyfield Switch & Crossing Works, Portobello, looking along the branch from South Leith in February 2006. Running across the centre of the picture beyond the main shed is a class 66 heading south along the ECML with the morning Powderhall - Oxwellmains <I>Binliner</I> containers.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/02/2006]](/images/6000/6694.jpg "Baileyfield")
![On a cold February morning in 2006, with mist hanging over the Forth, EWS 66028 brings a trainload of imported coal from Leith Docks below Seafield Road and enters the site of the former Meadows Yard. The coal is part of a major consignment from Russia destined for Cockenzie power station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/02/2006]](/images/6000/6696.jpg "Meadows Yard")
![EWS 66028 passing through the former Meadows Yard eastbound in February 2006 with imported coal from Leith Docks heading for Cockenzie power station. The old yard is now a combination of large retail warehouses and an attractive local neighbourhood nature area [see image 3191].<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/02/2006]](/images/6000/6697.jpg "Meadows Yard")
![A PW train takes the line to Millerhill at Niddrie West Junction on 2 April 2006 behind EWS 66122.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/7000/7590.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Looking west at the Edinburgh skyline as trains diverted over the sub meet on the bridge across Duddingston Park South road on Sunday 2 April 2006. Niddrie West Junction is in the foreground.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/7000/7597.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![An Edinburgh - Kings Park football special comes off the single line from Portobello at Niddrie West Junction on the <I>sub</I> on 2 April 2006, while a diverted Glasgow - Edinburgh train waits at signals for the section to clear in order to complete its roundabout journey to Waverley.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/7000/7600.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Eastbound track panels between Niddrie West and Niddrie South Junctions bound for Millerhill yard in April 2006. The one time route to the ECML via Wanton Walls Junction ran parallel on the nearside. [See image 29325]<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/31000/31981.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A Sunday morning Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh Waverley service diverted around the 'sub' due to engineering works at Haymarket tunnel on 2 April 2006. The train is at Niddrie West Junction running onto the single line section to Brunstane and Portobello to eventually enter Waverley station from the east.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/50000/50652.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Hold up. Coal empties held at the north end of Millerhill Yard - April 2006. Locomotive is EWS 66193.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/04/2006]](/images/8000/8114.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Rail grinding machine approaching Niddrie West Junction in April 2006 from the Niddrie South direction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/04/2006]](/images/7000/7623.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![EWS 66205 brings a train of imported coal through the Albert Road gate out of Leith docks and over the level crossing into Leith South yard on 7 June 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/06/2006]](/images/9000/9623.jpg "Leith Docks")
![66205 leaving Leith South yard and running alongside Seafield Road with imported coal from Leith Docks to Cockenzie power station on 7 June 2006. Note the slightly projecting section of the wall to the left of the bus stop on the other side of the road, showing where one of the supports for the long demolished Caledonian bridge that crossed Seafield Road into the docks once stood. [See image 27121]<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/06/2006]](/images/9000/9626.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![A hot day at Leith South in June 2006 as EWS 66205 draws slowly to a halt on the approach to Seafield level crossing. The trainload of imported Russian coal from Leith Docks is destined for Cockenzie power station. The two gentlemen on the footbridge are awaiting radio clearance before opening the crossing gates. <br><br>[John Furnevel 07/06/2006]](/images/42000/42174.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![A trainload of imported Russian coal from Leith Docks, destined for Cockenzie power station, leaving Leith South yard on a sunny morning in June 2006. EWS 66205 is in the process of manoeuvring its train east over the manually operated Seafield level crossing. The A199 Seafield Road runs past on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/06/2006]](/images/57000/57530.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![EWS 66205 moving away from Seafield level crossing on 7 June 2006 with a trainload of imported coal from Leith Docks. The contents are destined for Cockenzie power station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 07/06/2006]](/images/60000/60716.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![EWS 66048 brings a coal train through Niddrie West Junction in June 2006 heading for Millerhill.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/06/2006]](/images/9000/9703.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A coal train seen shortly after passing Niddrie West Junction heading for Niddrie South on 16 June 2006. On the left is the trackbed of the former direct route to the ECML via Wanton Walls Junction [see image 29573].<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/06/2006]](/images/56000/56925.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![The siding destined to become the start of the Borders Railway route to Tweedbank [see image 33891]. View north on 1 August 2006 as a DMU leaves the turnback siding at the north end of Millerhill yard to run back to the platform at Newcraighall station on the other side of the bridge. 158740 had arrived there from Bathgate some 15 minutes earlier and would depart shortly as the next service to Dunblane.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/08/2006]](/images/33000/33938.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![Haven for drunks and lost souls on the northbound platform at the old Eskbank station. <i>Who is Lucan into this?</i><br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/11000/11748.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Odd shed of antiquity at Eskbank. south platform.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12143.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Looking east from Tower Street in September 2006 across Constitution Street towards the site of South Leith station. Opened by the E&D in 1832 as Leith, the name was changed to South Leith in 1859 with final closure to passengers taking place between 1903 - 1905. [See image 27583]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/2006]](/images/11000/11374.jpg "South Leith")
![Looking south from Leith Docks up Constitution Street in September 2006, with the site of the former South Leith station off to the left just beyond the old dock entrance.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/2006]](/images/11000/11378.jpg "Leith Docks")
![View south from the docks in September 2006 with the site of South Leith station off to the left on the far side of the wall beyond Tower Street. Much of the area in between was once occupied by the sidings and goods sheds of Leith General Warehousing. Ironically the area may well see rails again, being one of the sites shortlisted by Edinburgh Council for the new Edinburgh tram depot.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/2006]](/images/11000/11379.jpg "South Leith")
![A modern replacement goods depot was built at Leith South, with rail access from the SW corner of Leith South yard. View shows the depot in 2006 looking west with the rail connection severed. [See image 11753]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/2006]](/images/11000/11661.jpg "Leith South Goods")
![Leith South goods depot stands behind locked gates on the abandoned link from Leith South yard in September 2006. The VA Tech building on the right is located within the dock estate, with the cranes between the two standing alongside the Edinburgh Dock.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/09/2006]](/images/11000/11753.jpg "Leith South Goods")
![Russian coal on its way to Cockenzie power station in September 2006. EWS 66095 has brought the train from the import terminal in Leith Docks and has just passed below the A1140 road bridge heading for Portobello West Junction and the ECML.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/09/2006]](/images/40000/40364.jpg "Baileyfield")
![EWS 66095 with Russian coal from Leith Docks destined for Cockenzie power station in September 2006. The train is passing the VAE Baileyfield Switch & Crossing Works on the climb up to Portobello Junction and the ECML. [See image 14242]<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/09/2006]](/images/54000/54975.jpg "Baileyfield")
![The <I>Northern Belle</I> Pullman empty stock arrives at Millerhill Yard on 20 Sept 2006 behind EWS 67017. An excursion from Waverley... <I>'to the delightful fishing village of Oban' (sic)</I> is scheduled to take place on the 24th.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2006]](/images/10000/10995.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![67017 brings the empty stock of <i>The Northern Belle</i> south into Millerhill yard on 20 September 2006. On the right a 158 is about to leave the reversing siding and run back to Newcraighall station, where it will form the next service to Dunblane.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/09/2006]](/images/20000/20568.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Eskbank & Dalkeith, now overgrown. Steps up to old footbridge from platform visible. This station closed with the entire Waverley line in 01.1969<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/10/2006]](/images/11000/11356.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Station House, main line to the rear.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 02/10/2006]](/images/11000/11386.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![A mobile ramp used to load cars onto double-deck Cartics rusting away in the southwest corner of Leith South yard in October 2006. The former Leith South goods depot stands in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/10/2006]](/images/11000/11752.jpg "Leith South")
![A Sunday morning stroll along the old Waverley Route at Hardengreen on 15 October 2006. View is north east, with the Tesco Superstore in the background. The lady and her dog are passing the site of the planned Eskbank station, albeit some 30 feet above it. [See image 47159]<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/10/2006]](/images/56000/56661.jpg "Eskbank")
![66142 comes off the Leith South branch at Portobello with a train of imported coal from Leith Docks to Cockenzie Power Station while in the background an unidentified 66 takes a train of empties down to the Docks for loading.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 25/11/2006]](/images/19000/19282.jpg "Portobello")
![EWS 66078, having brought its load of imported Russian coal up the branch from Leith Docks, is held at signals at Portobello East Junction on 6 December 2006. The train is alongside the old Portobello Freightliner terminal awaiting the clear onto the ECML and the road to its ultimate destination, Cockenzie power station. Photograph taken from a passing train. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/12/2006]](/images/12000/12578.jpg "Portobello East Junction")
![EWS 37406 <I>The Saltire Society </I>, lit by a low winter sun, arrives back at Millerhill on 26 January 2007 having worked the early morning Powderhall - Oxwellmains <I>Binliner</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/01/2007]](/images/13000/13292.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Unloading spent ballast in the sidings along the north eastern edge of the old up yard at Millerhill on Saturday 10 February 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/02/2007]](/images/13000/13620.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![PW train on the line from Niddrie South Jct on 31 March suffers a signal check on the approach to Niddrie West due to the volume of traffic using the <I>sub</I>. <br><br>[John Furnevel /03/2007]](/images/14000/14280.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Diverted westbound train heading for Bathgate crosses Niddrie West Junction in the shadow of Arthurs Seat on 31 March.<br><br>[John Furnevel /03/2007]](/images/14000/14296.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Coal empties from Cockenzie power station destined for Leith Docks entering Leith South yard on 1 March 2007 behind EWS 66085. The train is passing a line of impressive looking railway vehicles which have recently appeared alongside the yard's south wall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2007]](/images/13000/13862.jpg "Leith South")
![Coal empties held at Seafield level crossing on 1 March 2007 on their way back from Cockenzie power station to Leith Docks.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2007]](/images/13000/13867.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![Coal empties head along the north sidings into the docks past loaded hoppers ready to to be uplifted on 1 March 2007. Burntisland stands in the background on the north shore of the Forth.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2007]](/images/13000/13869.jpg "Leith South")
![Empties from Cockenzie power station returning to the coal import terminal at Leith Docks held at Seafield level crossing on 1 March awaiting access to Leith South yard. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2007]](/images/13000/13925.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![The converted former Millerhill station in March 2007. In the background the Roslin branch (latterly serving Bilston Glen colliery) comes in from the right to join the Waverley route.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/03/2007]](/images/14000/14167.jpg "Millerhill")
![The sweeping single arch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway Company's Glenesk Viaduct (1830), seen from the east side illuminated by March sunshine in 2007. Photograph taken from the steep sided valley of the North Esk, on the edge of Dalkeith's Ironmills Park. [See image 14929]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/03/2007]](/images/50000/50584.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![A ballast train joins the sub at Niddrie West off the Millerhill line on 31 March with 66085 at the front and 66191 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14297.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![37410 passing Newcraighall en route to Millerhill on 9 April.<br><br>[David Panton 09/04/2007]](/images/16000/16062.jpg "Newcraighall")
![EWS 66059 awaiting the clear onto the ECML at Portobello on 13 April with a coal train off the Leith branch heading for Cockenzie power station. Taken from a passing train.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/04/2007]](/images/14000/14688.jpg "Portobello")
![The magnificent old station building at Eskbank in April 2007. The trackbed is in a cutting to the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/04/2007]](/images/14000/14398.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![158 set in Alphaline livery seen on 9 April forming a Waverley service at Newcraighall.<br><br>[David Panton 9/04/2007]](/images/16000/16170.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Looking south over Glenesk Viaduct on 9 May. On the far side was Glenesk Junction where the line to Dalkeith veered left away from the Waverley route.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2007]](/images/14000/14925.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![Plate attached to Glenesk Viaduct - May 2007. [See image 51725]<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2007]](/images/14000/14929.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![Something interesting happening at the site of the former NCB sidings at the Lady Victoria Colliery. View looks north-east and the Waverley route trackbed is beyond the building to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 09/06/2007]](/images/15000/15380.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit")
![Loading bank north of Eskbank station. The goods yard was on both sides of the line and a coal mine on the west side.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 09/06/2007]](/images/15000/15390.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![A departmental working from Leith South arrives at Millerhill behind 66125 on 9 July passing a Newcraighall terminated service about to leave the turnback siding. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15762.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![66125 and train held at signals east of Seafield crossing on 9 July. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15763.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![A departmental working from Leith South to Millerhill on 9 July on Seafield LC. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15764.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![Leith South - Millerhill departmental service stopped at signals on 9 July stands alongside Seafield Road. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2007]](/images/15000/15776.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![67022 with an engineers train being loaded with building materials at a rather overgrown Leith South yard on 21 August 2007. View is northwest towards the docks. The materials were for use on the improvement works being carried out at Waverley at that time.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 21/08/2007]](/images/19000/19290.jpg "Leith South")
![158710 leaves the reversing siding at Millerhill to form the next Newcraighall - Waverley service on 8 October while the freight in the background waits for it to clear the section to Niddrie South Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/10/2007]](/images/16000/16803.jpg "Millerhill Turnback Siding")
![Coal empties overtake coal empties on 8 October in Millerhill yard.<br><br>[John Furnevel 8/10/2007]](/images/16000/16802.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Southern approach to the surviving goods shed on the eastern edge of the St Leonards site on 1 January 2008. The building, now known as <I>The Engine Shed</I>, specialises in the production and supply of vegetarian cuisine as well as housing its own cafe/restaurant. The northern exit from the yard onto St Leonards Lane can be seen beyond the van in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2008]](/images/17000/17615.jpg "St Leonards")
![The site of Edinburgh's first railway terminus was at St Leonards on the south side of the city, reached by the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway in 1831. The photograph shows the former main entrance to the site (which included extensive coal sidings and distribution facilities) [see image 22439] the major part of which is now occupied by flats. View looking east across St Leonards Street on 1 January 2008.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2008]](/images/17000/17616.jpg "St Leonards")
![<i>They went around the corner of the police station and into The Engine Shed. Hynds admitted he had not known it was there. 'It really was an engine shed', she told him, 'steam engines, I suppose. They pulled goods trains...coal or something. There are still bits of the railway line, they run down to Duddingston.'</I> [Excerpt from 'Resurrection Men' by Ian Rankin.] <I>The Engine Shed</I> cafe - actually part of an old goods shed - at the former St Leonards terminus on 1 January 2008.... and yes, it's just round the corner from St Leonards nick.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2008]](/images/17000/17655.jpg "St Leonards")
![View southeast across St Leonards Lane, Edinburgh from the rear of the Lothian & Borders Police Central Division headquarters on St Leonards Street into the former yard of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. The sizeable old 1831 E&D goods shed, which has been beautifully restored, is now home to an operation specialising in the preparation and supply of vegetarian food, as well as <I>The Engine Shed</I> cafe. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2008]](/images/17000/17656.jpg "St Leonards")
![The south portal of the 320m long, steeply graded, St Leonards Tunnel (1831), running under part of Holyrood Park and giving access to the former St Leonards terminus, photographed on 2 January 2008. The young lady is probably making better time than many of the trains that once brought coal, destined for the home fires of Auld Reekie, up to what was, for many years, one of Edinburgh's major domestic coal distribution centres. [See image 31377]<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2008]](/images/17000/17619.jpg "St Leonards Tunnel")
![Arriving at the north portal of St Leonards tunnel (320m) on 2 January 2008, just short of the site of the former Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway terminus at St Leonards. The majority of the site is now occupied by houses and flats, although one notable restored goods shed remains. Running above the tunnel mouth is Holyrood Park Road and directly ahead is now East Parkside. [See image 40388]<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2008]](/images/17000/17736.jpg "St Leonards Tunnel")
![A pedestrian emerges from the north portal of The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway's St Leonards Tunnel, just 400m short of the former terminus, in January 2008. On the upper level is Holyrood Park Road, while the far end of the 320m long tunnel emerges into the park itself.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2008]](/images/40000/40388.jpg "St Leonards Tunnel")
![Eskbank Station looking north towards Glenesk Junction in May 2008.�<br>
<br><br>[Mark Poustie /05/2008]](/images/28000/28543.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![D1015 <I>Western Champion</I> approaching Niddrie South Junction on 3 May with empty stock.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/05/2008]](/images/18000/18918.jpg "Niddrie South Junction")
![30777 <I>Sir Lamiel</I>, with 47760 coupled behind, passing Newcraighall having rounded the <I>sub</I> with the RTC charter from Huddersfield on 20 December. The train was subsequently dragged back to Waverley by 37706.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/12/2008]](/images/21000/21843.jpg "Newcraighall")
![37706 waits to leave Newcraighall on 20 December on its way back to Waverley from Millerhill yard with the empty stock for the return RTC excursion to Huddersfield.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/12/2008]](/images/21000/21871.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Looking towards Portobello Junction from the South Leith branch on 3 June 2009 past the VAE Baileyfield switch and crossing works. <br><br>[David Panton 03/06/2009]](/images/24000/24059.jpg "Baileyfield")
![A brash claim was made [see image 28924] that nobody used the footbridge at Seafield, so in an effort to prove myself wrong here is a picture taken from said footbridge on 17 May, looking east towards the level crossing and the junction at Portobello.<br><br>[David Panton 17/05/2010]](/images/28000/28997.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![<I>Not exceeding forty shillings</I> seems a long time ago... sign on a fence alongside Seafield level crossing on 6 June 2010. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/06/2010]](/images/29000/29442.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![View east on 27 June 2010 along the route of the direct goods lines that ran between Niddrie West (behind camera) and the ECML. The location is around 250m short of the former Wanton Walls Junction where the Lothian Lines from Leith and Portobello came in from the left to join the route. The old footbridge seen here just to the north of Newcraighall village has long been out of use with the right of way having reverted to the original footpath seen crossing the trackbed in the foreground.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/2010]](/images/29000/29573.jpg "Wanton Walls Junction")
![Site of the short-lived early passenger terminus - and much longer lived goods station - of St Leonards, south-east of Edinburgh City Centre. The site fanned out from a tunnel which ran (and still runs) through the foothills of Arthur's Seat to a point between Samson's Ribs on one side and the Bonnie Wells o' Wearie (R Burns) on the other. If this sounds rural then it certainly looks it, and well within the City boundary. <br><br>[David Panton 30/10/2010]](/images/31000/31338.jpg "St Leonards")
![The Leith arm of the cross-shaped Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway of 1831 left the hub at Niddrie and crossed what was then open country. It never came of age (in the terms of the time) as it closed in 1849 when it was superseded by a branch from the North British Railway, now the ECML. On this stretch it ran parallel with Duddingston Park (a road) and Baileyfield Road after bridging Duddingston Road, in the centre of this view of 30 October. Behind the trees the embankment is remarkably intact, having survived the attentions of developers for over 150 years, and provides shelter and a view for the houses behind. The ECML can be seen crossing Baileyfield Road in the distance. <br><br>[David Panton 30/10/2010]](/images/31000/31365.jpg "Portobello (Old)")
![A look southeast into the tunnel at St Leonards. Originally horses were used for haulage and would have clopped along here even when steam was becoming commonplace. This supposedly led to the nickname 'The Innocent Railway' but, like all such names, you have to wonder just who, if anybody, called it that. [See image 17619] <br><br>[David Panton 30/10/2010]](/images/31000/31377.jpg "St Leonards")
![A look along the embankment of a railway which closed over 150 years <br>
ago. This was part of the Leith arm of the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway, photographed in October 2010. The line here ran parallel with Baileyfield Road which is to the left. Somewhere around here was the first Portobello Station. Because of the period and the nature of the line I don't imagine it was very substantial and there's certainly nothing to see today. It appears to be autumn on the left of the picture and spring on the right. I don't remember noticing this at the time; I think my camera is possessed.<br><br>[David Panton 30/10/2010]](/images/31000/31448.jpg "Portobello (Old)")
![This fragment of the former goods station at St Leonards in Edinburgh reminds me of a fossil dinosaur bone exposed by tectonic shifts. Photographed 30 October 2010. [See image 21311]<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 30/10/2010]](/images/31000/31479.jpg "St Leonards")
![Boarding a train at Newcraighall on Saturday 22 January 2011. This was the photographer's first journey over this part of the Waverley Route since 5 January 1969!<br>
<br><br>[Bruce McCartney 22/01/2011]](/images/32000/32463.jpg "Newcraighall")
![The Waverley route trackbed looking south on 5 March from the B704 road bridge near the junction for the former Lady Victoria Colliery. View is towards Gorebridge, with Newtongrange around half a mile behind the camera. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/03/2011]](/images/33000/33142.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The northern approach to Millerhill yard on 12 April 2011, with work in connection with the new Borders Railway route to Tweedbank now underway in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2011]](/images/33000/33608.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![67024 arriving at Millerhill with empty stock on the morning of 12 April 2011 has just passed the 10.05 service to Waverley standing at the platform at Newcraighall station in the background. The turnback siding on the left, normally used by trains terminating at Newcraighall, was out of use due to work taking place in connection with the new Borders Railway route to Tweedbank [see image 33608]. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2011]](/images/33000/33622.jpg "Newcraighall Junction")
![Looking south along the Newcraighall turnback siding towards Millerhill yard on 12 April 2011 with works in connection with the Borders Railway now underway on the right. On the left 67021 is held at signals waiting to head north, with 67024 about to enter the yard with a train of empty stock. For the view forty years earlier [see image 10108].<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2011]](/images/33000/33633.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Progress at the north end of Millerhill yard on 2 May 2011. Running off to the right is the new route to Tweedbank. Over on the left 67021 waits to pick up empty stock from the yard.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 02/05/2011]](/images/33000/33891.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The north end of Millerhill in bright sunshine on 3 June 2011 looking south west from the road bridge. The new formation now ends at a buffer-stop, while the former turnback siding [see image 2874] has been lifted. Meanwhile, members of the crew of <I>'The Royal Scotsman'</I> enjoy some fresh air on the open rear deck as the empty stock enters the yard behind WCRC 57001.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/2011]](/images/34000/34343.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Photograph taken from alongside the A7 on 3 June 2011 looking south west over the site of the planned Newtongrange station on the Borders Railway route to Tweedbank. The houses of Jenks Loan in the background are part of a significant residential development on the west side of the trackbed here. The original Newtongrange station was located on the north side of the A7 behind the camera [see image 24342].<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/2011]](/images/34000/34346.jpg "Newtongrange")
![View south over the site of the old down yard at Millerhill on 3 June 2011 with West Coast Railway 57001 passing on the left with the empty stock of <I>The Royal Scotsman</I>. The line curving off to the right is part of the new Borders Railway route heading for what will be its next station at Shawfair. Part of the new Shawfair development will occupy the site of the former Monktonhall Colliery. The short section of new track is currently being used as a replacement turnback siding for trains terminating at Newcraighall. [See image 4433] for the view thirty years earlier.<br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/2011]](/images/34000/34402.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![<I>'...and you!'</I> Looking south along the Waverley route towards Hardengreen Roundabout on 4 June 2011, with the site of the new Eskbank station just behind the camera. The lady in the foreground is looking over the parapet of a filled in bridge that once spanned the line here. A replacement bridge will eventually be required... as well as some serious earth-moving. [See image 47159]<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/06/2011]](/images/34000/34354.jpg "Eskbank")
![DBS 66025 leaves Millerhill with the 6S58 Lackenby - Dalzell loaded slab train on 20 June.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/06/2011]](/images/34000/34592.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![66154 crosses from down to up lines at Niddrie West on 29 July 2011 before heading for Portobello as part of a turning manoeuvre on the Millerhill / Niddrie West / Portobello / Millerhill triangle.<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2011]](/images/36000/36424.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![66221 brings a tracklaying train into the north end of Millerhill yard on 29 July 2011. The line nearest the camera is the start of what will become the Borders Railway route to Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2011]](/images/35000/35060.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![An unidentified EWS class 66 is about to take coal empties from the Millerhill direction onto the 'sub' at Niddrie West Junction in July 2011.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2011]](/images/45000/45222.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![The original Eskbank station looking south towards Hardengreen on a fine day in August 2011. Opened in 1847 as Gallowshall, it was renamed Eskbank in 1850. Between 1954 and closure in 1969 it carried the name Eskbank & Dalkeith. A new Eskbank station on the Borders Railway opened in 2015, just over a mile south of here. <br><br>[John Furnevel 07/08/2011]](/images/61000/61290.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![170 458 waits to leave Newcraighall on 5 March 2012 with the 13.17 to Edinburgh Waverley and Fife Circle service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/03/2012]](/images/37000/37903.jpg "Newcraighall")
![<I>The Engine Shed</I>, a refurbished former goods shed standing in the yard of the old Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway terminus at St Leonards, photographed on 7 March 2012. [See image 17655].<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 07/03/2012]](/images/37000/37901.jpg "St Leonards")
![The St Leonard's Street entrance to the former goods depot in March 2012. [See image 17615] for the view looking back from the other side of the yard.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 07/03/2012]](/images/37000/37909.jpg "St Leonards")
![<I>Back to the future....?</I> 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' takes the Borders Railway at Portobello East Junction with an excursion from Manchester Victoria to Tweedbank on 24 March ..(?)2015.... (Meantime settle for another shot of 70013 with <I>The Auld Reekie</I> in 2012.)<br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/03/2012]](/images/38000/38120.jpg "Portobello East Junction")
![DRS 57011 and 57002 leave Millerhill with the Torness - Sellafield flask train on 10 April 2012. On the left is the start of the Borders Railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/04/2012]](/images/38000/38333.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![170 471 takes refuge in the turnback siding at Millerhill on 10 April to make way for 67025 and the ecs for the 17.08 Fife Circle service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 10/04/2012]](/images/38000/38499.jpg "Newcraighall South Junction")
![A wave from Bill Douglas to passengers at Newcraighall on 14 April 2012 [see news item].<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/04/2012]](/images/4000/4627.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Platform view north at Newcraighall on 14 April 2012. Planters on the platform here are maintained by the Rotary Club of Portobello.<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/04/2012]](/images/4000/4848.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Trackbed of the Waverley route looking south from the A6106 bridge along the footpath towards Eskbank in May 2012 with tree clearance operations completed. [See image 50790]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/05/2012]](/images/38000/38706.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![Looking north at the possible site of Sheriffhall station (closed 1849) from the A6106 road bridge by Melville Gate to Old Sheriffhall Farm. The original Waverley Route trackbed disappears into the birch trees at right, while in the middle is marked out the course of the new Borders Railway.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 05/05/2012]](/images/38000/38733.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![ScotRail's external relations manager John Yellowlees, Bill Thomson and Neil Fraser from the Rotary Club of Portobello, and artist Kenny Munro, with the new sculpture at Newcraighall station. [See news item]<br><br>[ScotRail 29/05/2012]](/images/27000/27722.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Artist Kenny Munro, from Craigmillar Community Arts Centre, with his sculpture at Newcraighall station on 29 May 2012. [See news item]<br>
<br><br>[ScotRail 29/05/2012]](/images/28000/28007.jpg "Newcraighall")
![A young girl and her dog passing through the remains of Eskbank station on a bright and sunny afternoon. View south from the road bridge on 18 June 2012.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/06/2012]](/images/39000/39306.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Bikers roar south at Kings Gate on 25 July, near what is thought to have been one of the possible sites of the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway's Sheriffhall station (or 'stopping place') - closed circa 1847-1849. [The original Waverley alignment was off to the left.]<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2012]](/images/39000/39712.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Shortly after leaving Dalkeith terminus trains passed below this bridge carrying Cemetery Road. The partially infilled cutting and sealed underbridge area are seen here on 25 July looking west. The A6094 Eskbank Road runs past on the left, while across the bridge on the right is Dalkeith Cemetery and Ironmills Park. The trackbed to the west of the bridge is now a walkway leading to Glenesk Junction, where the line once joined the Waverley Route.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2012]](/images/39000/39723.jpg "Dalkeith")
![Crossing Glenesk Viaduct northbound on 25 July 2012 with the North Esk below. The arrival of the Borders Railway has raised the question of a 'bolt-on' cantilevered pedestrian crossing similar to that introduced on the Oykel Viaduct in 1999. [See image 3272]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2012]](/images/39000/39758.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![An up bicycle about to cross Glenesk Viaduct on the Waverley route in July 2012. At the south end is the site of Glenesk Junction giving a choice of routes to either Dakeith (left) or Eskbank, both now being cycle paths/walkways. The steps in the left foreground lead to Ironmills Park. [See image 30685]<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2012]](/images/39000/39780.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![A surviving 'Hallade Monument' in the six foot on the Waverley trackbed near Sheriffhall [see image 39712] in July 2012. Part of a now obsolete system, named after a French engineer, used in surveying and checking track curvature. The notch marks the centrepoint from each outside edge while the figures on either side indicate the cant. The base figure is the recording number.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2012]](/images/41000/41753.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![The view east towards Dalkeith from Cemetery Road bridge in July 2013 [see image 39723]. The trackbed has been obliterated from this point, with a car wash now located directly ahead, behind which are the premises of the local rugby club. Beyond that is the station site itself, currently being redeveloped as a supermarket. On the right a Lothian no 3 bus heads towards Dalkeith town centre, with the spire of St John's Church dominating the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2012]](/images/44000/44491.jpg "Dalkeith")
![The 'Place of Dreams' sculpture alongside the platform at Newcraighall station [see adjacent news item]. <br><br>[John Yellowlees 06/08/2012]](/images/3000/3940.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Newcraighall ceremony - left to right club president Neil Fraser, Peter Jewell, the Club's Bill Thomson and Kenny Munro. [See news item]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 06/08/2012]](/images/4000/4601.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Looking north along the Waverley trackbed on 14 August in the direction of Newtongrange. The bridge on the right spanned the lines serving the Lady Victoria Colliery, which can be seen in the distance.<br><br>[Mark Poustie 14/08/2012]](/images/39000/39968.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The 12.17 train to Waverley waits alongside the platform at Newcraighall station on 20 August 2012. Long lens view from Whitehill Road at the north end of Millerhill Yard, looking under the bridge carrying the A1.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/08/2012]](/images/40000/40023.jpg "Newcraighall")
![The �terminus� of the Borders Railway in October 2012 - the southern end of the turnback siding near Newcraighall. [See image 38338]<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40720.jpg "Newcraighall South Junction")
![On a pre-construction walk along the route of the Borders Railway on 9th October 2012, a view from high above the first cutting which will need to be excavated south of Newcraighall. Looking north, a strip of woodland at the north west end of the former Millerhill Down Yard has already been cut back. The new line�s most northerly dynamic loop will revert to single track south of the red buffer stop of the Newcraighall turnback siding, which can just be seen in the distance.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40742.jpg "Newcraighall South Junction")
![Looking north on 9th October 2012 over one of the crassest breaches of the Waverley Route by new roads - the Hardengreen roundabout of the A7 Dalkeith western bypass, built - incredibly - as recently as 2000 by Midlothian Council.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40772.jpg "Hardengreen")
![The alignment of the new Borders Railway, looking north over the site of the future Eskbank station on 9th October 2012. As in many places along the route corridor, the existing railway path will have to be diverted to an alternative on-road alignment - the only locations where the (single-track) railway will share the future solum with a walking / cycling path will be around Galashiels, including the 'Red Bridge' over the River Tweed.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40780.jpg "Hardengreen")
![Looking north over the solum of the Borders Railway towards what is now the Scottish Mining Museum at Newtongrange on 9th October 2012. The museum will potentially be a significant generator of traffic for the railway, but the public path currently occupying the solum will - here and on other stretches - be diverted to less satisfactory on-road replacement routes.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40800.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Demonstrating that the Borders Railway will be a scenic route, a view north across Lothianbridge Viaduct towards the Pentlands on 9th October 2012.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40807.jpg "Lothianbridge Viaduct")
![Southbound view taken through the security fence at Lothianbridge (aka Dalhousie / Newbattle / South Esk) Viaduct on 9th October 2012. At this point the new Borders Railway will be single track.<br><br>[David Spaven 09/10/2012]](/images/40000/40852.jpg "Lothianbridge Viaduct")
![View south over Hardengreen Roundabout on 16 February 2013, with tree clearance in progress. A bridge will span the gap to the embankment on the far side.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/02/2013]](/images/42000/42076.jpg "Hardengreen")
![D9009 at Niddrie West Junction on 6 April heading for Millerhill with empty stock from the Pathfinder Tours excursion from Crewe to Edinburgh. [See image 42627]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/04/2013]](/images/42000/42648.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![What has surely become the most photographed derelict platelayer's hut in Britain. Scene just south of Lady Victoria Colliery on 12 April 2013. View along the Waverley trackbed towards Gorebridge from the B704 road.<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2013]](/images/42000/42708.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The northern end of Newbattle Viaduct on the Waverley route, looking south towards Newtongrange on 12 April 2013. This is the point where the 23-arch structure spans the South Esk, running just beyond the wall in the foreground. [See image 33036]<br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2013]](/images/42000/42764.jpg "Newbattle Viaduct")
![Looking south west over Hardengreen roundabout towards Newtongrange on 10 May 2013, with the A7 crossing the picture left to right. The new railway will span the roundabout at this point. An excavating machine can be seen at work on the embankment in the background. For the same view 3 years later [see image 54974].<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/05/2013]](/images/43000/43044.jpg "Hardengreen")
![The closed walkway at Hardengreen on 10 May 2013. View north, with work taking place towards what will become the site of the new Eskbank station, once the filled-in cutting has been re-excavated. The Tesco Hardengreen Superstore is in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/05/2013]](/images/43000/43055.jpg "Hardengreen")
![View south along the Borders Railway route from Hardengreen on 10 May, with the site of the new Eskbank station behind the camera. Note that the excavating machine on the embankment in the background is on the other (south) side of Hardengreen roundabout. For the view 3 years later [see image 51923]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/05/2013]](/images/43000/43068.jpg "Hardengreen")
![View south showing work in progress on Hardengreen roundabout on 21 May 2013. [See image 42076]<br><br>[John Yellowlees 21/05/2013]](/images/43000/43172.jpg "Hardengreen")
![The former Eskbank station site on 22 May 2013, with the old footbridge and most of the platform structures now demolished and removed [see image 5740]. View north from the A6094, with the station building behind the trees at the top of the ramp and the bus in the background heading east along the A768.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2013]](/images/43000/43183.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The view south from the A6094 road bridge towards the site of Hardengreen Junction on 22 May [see image 17896]. Just behind the pedestrian walking across the trackbed in the background the route is fenced off, with the works beyond associated with the construction of the new Eskbank station and car park. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2013]](/images/43000/43189.jpg "Hardengreen Junction")
![View north from the B6392 road bridge towards Glenesk Junction in May 2013, with the site of Glenesk Colliery and sidings on the left. Near the green barrier stood Glenesk station, which first appeared in timetables in 1855 (although its opening date is shown by both Butt and Cobb as 1858). The station (occasionally shown as Glenesk Junction) seems to have officially closed in 1874, though it continued in use (unadvertised) into the 1880s.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2013]](/images/43000/43207.jpg "Glenesk")
![Preparing the way for the new Borders Railway bridge over Hardengreen roundabout on 25 June 2013. View west showing preparatory work in progress on the south side of the roundabout. The tipper truck has reached its position at the top of the embankment via Newbattle Viaduct [see image 33036] and the old Waverley trackbed, a route currently being used by construction traffic as an alternative to the A7... much to the relief of drivers on the A7.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/06/2013]](/images/43000/43557.jpg "Hardengreen")
![View south west at Hardengreen on 25 June with the new Eskbank station behind the camera. Hardengreen roundabout is out of sight below trackbed level in the centre of the picture. The tipping activity in the background is taking place on the south side of the roundabout and the red van is heading back towards Newbattle Viaduct. [See image 43557] <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/06/2013]](/images/43000/43565.jpg "Hardengreen")
![View south over Hardengreen roundabout on 25 June 2014. Part of Newbattle Viaduct is visible in the centre, with the Lady Victoria Colliery site beyond. The spire of Gorebridge parish church stands on the horizon top right. [See image 47129]<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/06/2013]](/images/43000/43583.jpg "Hardengreen")
![Opened in 1832, the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway's terminus alongside the A6094 Eskbank Road closed to passengers in 1942, with the short link back to the Waverley Route at Glenesk Junction closing completely in 1964. The site later became Dalkeith bus depot, although that too has now been demolished to make way for a Supermarket. View east towards the buffer stops on 18 July 2013 with Eskbank Road behind the fence on the right. [See image 33530] for the same view fifty years earlier. <br><br>[John Furnevel 18/07/2013]](/images/43000/43844.jpg "Dalkeith")
![Work in progress on the road bridge over the Waverley route just south of the A6106 at Kings Gate on 18 July 2013 [see image 38706].<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/07/2013]](/images/43000/43873.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Site of the 1847 station at Eskbank looking north on 18 July 2013. The last of the remains of the old station structures seem to have been demolished and cleared. The pedestrian ramp on the right, which formerly provided access to walkers and cyclists, is now closed off - with nature already starting to show signs of an early reclamation attempt.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/07/2013]](/images/43000/43894.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Approaching Hardengreen roundabout from the south on 30 July 2013 with work now underway on the roundabout itself [see image 42076]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/07/2013]](/images/44000/44003.jpg "Hardengreen")
![Looking south along the Waverley trackbed towards Gorebridge on 6 August 2013, with the site of Lady Victoria Colliery behind the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/08/2013]](/images/44000/44131.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The 10.21 ex-Cowdenbeath arrives at journey's end at Newcraighall on 9 August 2013 at 11.36. The train will depart north as the 11.47 for Glenrothes with Thornton.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/08/2013]](/images/44000/44276.jpg "Newcraighall")
![The roundabout at Hardengreen on Sunday 25 August. Looking north along the A7, with preparations for the new rail bridge continuing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/08/2013]](/images/44000/44358.jpg "Hardengreen")
![View south over the remains of the 1847 Eskbank station on 28 August 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/08/2013]](/images/44000/44387.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Bridgeworks on the B6392 north of Eskbank station on 28 August 2013 looking along the trackbed towards Sheriffhall. <br><br>[John Furnevel 28/08/2013]](/images/44000/44394.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![A car heading east into Dalkeith along the busy A6094 on 28 August speeds past the bridge that once carried Cemetery Road over the trackbed of the E&DR just west of Dalkeith station. A supermarket and car park are currently being built on the old station site and this bridge is now the only significant surviving artifact from the 1838 Dalkeith branch. [See image 39723]<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/08/2013]](/images/44000/44428.jpg "Dalkeith")
![View south from the B6415 bridge at Millerhill village over the course of the Waverley Route and the Glencorse branch (latterly serving Bilston Glen Colliery). Cutting across the trackbed is a new access route to a Borders Railway construction site. The signal seems a bit redundant... Taken at dusk on 21 September 2013. [See image 37199]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/09/2013]](/images/44000/44673.jpg "Millerhill")
![View north from the B6415 bridge at Millerhill village on 21 September 2013. [See image 44673]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 21/09/2013]](/images/44000/44681.jpg "Millerhill")
![Work being carried out on the trackbed near the former Lady Victoria Colliery on 27 September 2013. The site of the planned Newtongrange station is in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/09/2013]](/images/44000/44785.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Southbound through the 1847 Eskbank station site on 27 September 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/09/2013]](/images/44000/44798.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Looking north east over Hardengreen Roundabout on 5 October 2013 with drilling activity taking place on the far side. The A7 runs left to right across the picture.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44858.jpg "Hardengreen")
![The station site at Dalkeith, now cleared and ready for construction of the new supermarket. View east towards the town centre on 5 October 2013. The A6094 Eskbank Road is on the right and the 167 ft spire of the former West Church on Old Edinburgh Road stands in the left background. [See image 37347] <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/10/2013]](/images/44000/44868.jpg "Dalkeith")
![The drilling rig at Hardengreen on 11 October, now relocated to the south west of the roundabout [see image 43044]. View is north along the A7.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/10/2013]](/images/44000/44944.jpg "Hardengreen")
![Work in progress at Hardengreen Roundabout. View north along the A7 approach on 12 November 2013. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2013]](/images/45000/45273.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Looking north from the B6392 road bridge along the Waverley trackbed towards Glenesk Junction on Sunday 17 November 2013. The pipes on the left are stored on the site of the sidings that once served the former Glenesk Colliery. [See image 43207]<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/11/2013]](/images/45000/45333.jpg "Glenesk")
![View south from the B704 towards Arniston and Gorebridge on 17 November 2013.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/11/2013]](/images/45000/45357.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View south into the sun over the remains of the old Eskbank station on 29 November 2013. Beyond the bridge work is in progress on the section running towards the new station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/11/2013]](/images/45000/45464.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Approaching Hardengreen roundabout from Eskbank on 15 December, with work on the supports for the new bridge that will carry the Borders Railway well advanced.<br><br>[John Furnevel /12/2013]](/images/45000/45638.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![The southern approach to Hardengreen Roundabout on the A7 on 15 December 2013. [See image 43044] <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/12/2013]](/images/45000/45649.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![All appears fairly quiet in this view north over the old Eskbank station on 15 December 2013, with works activity starting to wind down for the Christmas holiday break. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/12/2013]](/images/45000/45717.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![View north from a point near the site of the former Hardengreen Junction on 18 December 2013. The remains of the original 1847 Eskbank station lie immediately beyond the A6094 road bridge in the background. The houses of Hardengreen Lane stand on the left. [See image 17896]<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/12/2013]](/images/45000/45679.jpg "Hardengreen Junction")
![View south along the A7 on 18 December 2013 towards Hardengreen Roundabout, the centre of which is now occupied by a large bridge support. Newbattle Viaduct shows off its new blue safety fencing in the centre background, with Lady Victoria pit beyond. Gorebridge parish church stands on the horizon directly beyond the top of the crane jib.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/12/2013]](/images/45000/45688.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Looking south past the former Millerhill station along the trackbed of the old Waverley route on 20 December 2013. The new route to Tweedbank will leave the original alignment at the north end of Millerhill yard and run through Shawfair, to the west of here. The redundant section of the trackbed is now crossed by an access road used by construction traffic in connection with the new recycling facility to be built on the west side of the yard. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/12/2013]](/images/45000/45703.jpg "Millerhill")
![View north from Whitehill Road on 8 January 2014 as the 12.17 service to Glenrothes with Thornton awaits its departure time from Newcraighall station. At the top of the picture a truck is heading west on the A1, at the bottom is the junction for the Borders Rail route south to Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/01/2014]](/images/45000/45913.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![<I>'Got it...'</I> Construction work on the northern support for the Borders Railway bridge over Hardengreen Roundabout in progress on 17 January 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/01/2014]](/images/45000/45989.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Looking south from the A6094 road bridge along the Waverley trackbed on 17 January 2014 towards the site of the new Eskbank station in the distance. The original 1847 station site is immediately behind the camera on the north side of the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/01/2014]](/images/46000/46003.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![View south west over Hardengreen roundabout on 17 January showing the south tower of the Borders Railway bridge under construction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/01/2014]](/images/46000/46014.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![View towards Edinburgh from the A768 at the north end of the old Eskbank station on 17 January. The interesting looking bridge carries the B6392 Melville Road over the trackbed.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/01/2014]](/images/46000/46020.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Progress at Glenesk an 8 February 2014. View is north along the trackbed towards Glenesk Junction in the background, with the site of Glenesk Colliery on the left of the picture.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/02/2014]](/images/46000/46231.jpg "Glenesk")
![Almost ready for the deck - three bridge supports - Hardengreen Roundabout. Approaching on the A7 from the south on 8 February 2014 [see image 43044]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 08/02/2014]](/images/46000/46234.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![The old Eskbank station looking south on 8 February 2014. Still relatively undisturbed by the construction activities taking place to the north and south of the site.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/02/2014]](/images/46000/46276.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The new bridge at Hardengreen starts to take shape.<br><br>
<a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/rkspics/12544369485/in/album-72157641657480845/'>Bob Smith's Flickr site</a>.<br><br>[Bob Smith 15/02/2014]](/images/53000/53498.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Hardengreen roundabout - a bridged version! View south along the (closed) A7 towards Hardengreen roundabout on a bright and sunny Sunday morning 16 February 2014 - with the bridge deck now in place. <br><br>[John Furnevel 16/02/2014]](/images/46000/46329.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![The new Borders Railway bridge at Hardengreen complete with deck, seen from the south on Monday morning 17 February, with the road reopened and traffic back to normal on the A7 after the weekend closure. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/02/2014]](/images/46000/46340.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Long lens view south towards Hardengreen roundabout on Monday 18 February 2014 showing the new bridge over the roundabout and the older (by 167 years) Newbattle Viaduct standing beyond. <br><br>[John Furnevel 18/02/2014]](/images/46000/46353.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![View north towards the Edinburgh city bypass on 18 February with work in progress on the trackbed. [See image 38733] <br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/02/2014]](/images/46000/46370.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![On the left is the view south from the A6106 at Melville Gate along the Waverley trackbed on 18 February. On the right is the view west from the same bridge with the trackbed in the foreground. Note the second arch further west on the original Edinburgh and Dalkeith alignment. [See image 46447] [Ref query 2870]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/02/2014]](/images/46000/46446.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway's 1830 Glenesk Viaduct looking east towards Dalkeith from the banks of the North Esk on 22 February 2014. Sheriffhall is off to the left and Glenesk Junction to the right. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46403.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![The view south over Glenesk Viaduct from the hillside on 22 February. The Dalkeith branch left the Waverley route at Glenesk Junction on the far side of the viaduct. <br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46409.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![The Waverley trackbed looking north towards Glenesk Junction on 22 February. The deck of Glenesk Viaduct can be seen in the background just beyond the junction [see image 46409].<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46421.jpg "Glenesk")
![Excavation works on the Borders Railway just to the south of the Edinburgh city bypass on Saturday 22 February 2014. View north towards the bypass.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46422.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![The trackbed running past Lady Victoria towards Newtongrange on 22 February. The bridge carrying the A7 Murderdean Road stands in the background with the houses of Station Road beyond. The new station site is on this side of the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46430.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The end. The old platelayer's hut that stood just south of Lady Victoria Pit reduced to flat-pack form on 22 February 2014. View south towards Gorebridge. [See image 42708]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46431.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![View north towards the A6106 at Melville Gate on 22 February showing the tunnels used by the original E&D route towards Sheriffhall (left) and the later improved alignment, on which work is currently progressing on behalf of the Borders Railway.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/02/2014]](/images/46000/46447.jpg "Sheriffhall [1st]")
![View west from the A6106 at Melville Gate on 22 February 2014 showing the original tunnel used by the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. The replacement tunnel on the realigned route is off picture to the right. For a view including both tunnels [see image 46447]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/02/2014]](/images/59000/59434.jpg "Sheriffhall [1st]")
![Some eejit photographing the tunnel on the original Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway formation at Melville Gate, just south of Sheriffhall, in February 2014. For the unaltered version [see image 59434]. [Ref query of 20 December 2017] …..Merry Christmas!<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/02/2014]](/images/62000/62232.jpg "Sheriffhall [1st]")
![The Borders Railway bridge over Hardengreen roundabout looking north along the A7 on 13 March 2014, approximately a month on from the deck being lifted into position. A Dalek seems to have materialised near the south end of the bridge and is waving to passing motorists.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2014]](/images/46000/46628.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Onward. The machines moving south from Sherifhall on 13 March 2014. <br><br>[John Furnevel 13/03/2014]](/images/46000/46647.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Beginning of the end at Eskbank? The machines get to work at the 1847 Esbank station site on the morning of 19 March 2014. <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/03/2014]](/images/46000/46700.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The view south at Eskbank on 19 March 2014. The new Borders Railway station to the south of here will be located less than half a mile beyond the bridge in the background. [See image 46700] <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/03/2014]](/images/46000/46742.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Long walk. The Waverley trackbed looking south from the A6106 bridge towards Eskbank on 28 March 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/03/2014]](/images/46000/46810.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![A new role for the old station site at Dalkeith. Scene on 6 April 2014 looking east towards the town centre with Eskbank Road on the right and the car park for the new Supermarket taking shape [see image 43844].<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/04/2014]](/images/46000/46900.jpg "Dalkeith")
![Little obvious significant change at the old Eskbank station since the previous visit, other than the raised bridge parapet and the seven daffodils. View north on Sunday 6 April 2014. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/04/2014]](/images/46000/46913.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The new Borders Railway bridge over Hardengreen roundabout looking south on 27 April 2014. Side panels are now in place along both sides of the deck and much of the scaffolding has been removed. Newbattle viaduct stands in the background, complete with temporary safety fencing.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/04/2014]](/images/47000/47129.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Looking south from the the A6094 on 27 April 2014, with the old Eskbank station immediately behind the camera. The new station will be located just beyond the yellow works container in the background, some 9 miles out from Waverley. The houses of Hardengreen Lane stand just off to the right behind the trees.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/04/2014]](/images/47000/47138.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The Waverley trackbed looking south west from the new Eskbank station site on Sunday 27 April 2014. As can be seen, considerable excavation work has been carried out in the area. In addition, a new bridge is to be built in the background to replace the old masonry arch bridge filled in along with the original cutting following closure [see image 34354].<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/04/2014]](/images/47000/47159.jpg "Eskbank")
![Work in progress on the embankment south of the rail bridge over Hardengreen roundabout on 13 May.<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/05/2014]](/images/47000/47325.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Morning stroll south through Eskbank - scene on 2 June 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/06/2014]](/images/47000/47512.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The Waverley route between Eskbank and Hardengreen looking south on 2 June 2014. Note the supports for the footbridge that will span the trackbed in the background at the site of the new Eskbank station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/06/2014]](/images/47000/47521.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Transformation almost complete at Dalkeith on 2 June 2014. [See image 39524] for the scene in the early sixties.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/06/2014]](/images/47000/47542.jpg "Dalkeith")
![The Borders Railway construction site at Glenesk on 2 June looking north towards Glenesk Junction and the Viaduct.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/06/2014]](/images/47000/47552.jpg "Glenesk")
![The approach to Hardengreen Roundabout from the south west on the B6392 on 13 June 2014, with the new Borders Railway bridge dominating the scene. <br><br>[John Furnevel 13/06/2014]](/images/47000/47651.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Progress around the site of the new Eskbank station on 19 June 2014, with the new footbridge under construction in the right background. [See image 47531] <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/2014]](/images/47000/47710.jpg "Eskbank")
![The Waverley trackbed just north of the former Glenesk Colliery looking towards the viaduct on Sunday morning 22 June 2014 with concrete sleepers, pipe sections and other precast items present.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2014]](/images/47000/47733.jpg "Glenesk")
![The Waverley trackbed in June 2014 looking south from the A6106 bridge towards Eskbank. [See image 38706]<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/06/2014]](/images/47000/47757.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![The remains of Millerhill station looking south along the trackbed of the Waverley route on 26 June 2014. The temporary road access is in connection with the construction of a Biogen food waste recycling plant being built at the north end of the old yard. The Glencorse Branch, latterly serving Bilston Glen Colliery, turned west in the middle distance [see image 5547].<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/06/2014]](/images/47000/47809.jpg "Millerhill")
![The former Millerhill South Junction was to the right, Millerhill Junction behind, looking north towards Millerhill Yard on 27 June 2014. The route of the new Borders Railway via Shawfair station is to the west of here, running through the site once occupied by Monktonhall Colliery. [See image 35723]<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/06/2014]](/images/47000/47785.jpg "Millerhill")
![View south from the A6094 road bridge on 6 July past the site of Hardengreen Junction towards the works underway on the new Eskbank station, with the partially constructed footbridge at the south end.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/07/2014]](/images/47000/47944.jpg "Eskbank")
![View south along the Borders Railway trackbed from the B704 road bridge towards Arniston on 17 July 2014, with the Lady Victoria site behind the camera. <br><br>[John Furnevel 17/07/2014]](/images/48000/48044.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking north along the former south/east chord at the south end of Millerhill Yard on 22 July 2014. Coaching stock stands alongside the wagon repair shop top right, while groundwork is underway elsewhere. Part of the area once occupied by the down yard is earmarked to house a recycling centre for food and residual waste, with a new EGIP electric train servicing facility to be constructed on the up side. [See image 48305]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/07/2014]](/images/48000/48109.jpg "Millerhill South Junction")
![The old Eskbank station looking north east from the A6094 road bridge on 3 August 2014. [See image 48259]<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48252.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![View south along the Waverley trackbed from the A6094 road bridge at Eskbank on 3 August 2014 [see image 48252] with the new Eskbank station and footbridge under construction in the background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48259.jpg "Eskbank")
![Progress on the Borders Railway just to the south of the Edinburgh city bypass on 3 August 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/08/2014]](/images/48000/48272.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Looking north across Seafield Road towards the level crossing on 5 August 2014, with the waste water treatment works on Marine Esplanade visible on the far side. Leith South yard lies beyond the trees with access to Leith Docks at its western end. The crossing appears to have seen little traffic since the end of the coal imports for Cockenzie power station, which was decommissioned last year. Track is overgrown, the crossing gates are adorned with ads for local services and the footbridge is now fenced off as a dangerous structure. [See image 5646]<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/08/2014]](/images/48000/48296.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![The former up reception sidings at Millerhill, seen from the Whitehill Road entrance (just off picture to the right) on 5 August 2014. Rail access from the north was below the bridge on the left. Most of the track has long been lifted, although sidings in the background have since been used to handle ballast [see image 13620]. On this occasion the area contained a large stockpile of concrete sleepers. Part of the yard has been proposed as the location for a new ScotRail EMU depot. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/08/2014]](/images/48000/48305.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![The trackbed running south east from Seafield level crossing towards Porobello Junction on 5 August 2014, more than a year on from the decommissioning of Cockenzie power station. Leith South Yard stands behind the camera with the docks beyond. [See image 4256]. [Ref query 6877] <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/08/2014]](/images/48000/48520.jpg "Seafield Level Crossing")
![The new Eskbank station starting to take shape on Sunday 10 August 2014. View is south towards Newtongrange.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/08/2014]](/images/48000/48309.jpg "Eskbank")
![The new Eskbank station from the west side of the cutting on Sunday 10 August 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/08/2014]](/images/48000/48333.jpg "Eskbank")
![Neat looking trackbed running south from the A6106 road bridge towards Eskbank on 24 August 2014, photographed from the wall alongside the recently raised bridge parapet.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/08/2014]](/images/48000/48485.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![Traffic on the A7 negotiating Hardengreen Roundabout under the Borders Railway viaduct. View south on Saturday morning 30 August 2014. The new Eskbank station is currently under construction off to the left . <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2014]](/images/48000/48527.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Waverley trackbed alongside the Lady Victoria site on 30 August 2014, with Newtongrange station taking shape this side of the A7 road bridge in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/08/2014]](/images/48000/48536.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Work underway at the old Eskbank station site on 3 September 2014. View north. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/09/2014]](/images/48000/48606.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Points, Sheriffhall, looking north towards the Edinburgh City Bypass on 7 September 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/09/2014]](/images/48000/48658.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![DBS 66114 leads an empty autoballaster train from Nairn into Millerhill Yard on 8 September. 66103 was on the rear.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 08/09/2014]](/images/48000/48632.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![Looking south through the new Eskbank station on 14 September 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/09/2014]](/images/48000/48717.jpg "Eskbank")
![Looking north from the B6392 road bridge on 16 September 2014 towards the site of Glenesk Colliery and Junction.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 16/09/2014]](/images/48000/48735.jpg "Glenesk")
![The south end of Millerhill yard on Sunday 21 September 2014 looking north. The blue signs affixed to the fence on the middle road read <I>'Barhale'</I>, the specialist organisation contracted to handle the civil engineering aspects of the new anaerobic digestion plant (pardon me) a type of food waste recycling facility being built on behalf of Edinburgh and Midlothian Councils. Access to the new plant will eventually be from Whitehill Road at the north end via a new bridge over the Borders Railway. [See image 48768]<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/09/2014]](/images/48000/48772.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Looking south along the Waverley trackbed from the A6094 road bridge on 5 October 2014 towards the new Eskbank station. Sleepers have now been laid from a point just beyond the metal barriers marking the pedestrian crossing point. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/10/2014]](/images/48000/48945.jpg "Eskbank")
![View north over the works at the site of the old Eskbank station on 5 October 2014.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/10/2014]](/images/49000/49005.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![A Dunbar - Fort William tamper approaching the junction with the Borders Railway at the north end of Millerhill Yard on 6 October. In the right background are GBRf 66726 and 66736 with the Borders Railway tracklaying train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/10/2014]](/images/48000/48939.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![The advance guard of the Borders Railway tracklaying train drops rails into place just south of Kingsgate Points in the early afternoon of Monday 13th October. [See image 38706]<br><br>[David Spaven 13/10/2014]](/images/49000/49040.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![Looking north towards Glenesk Junction on 14 October 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/10/2014]](/images/49000/49060.jpg "Glenesk")
![A road-railer passes through the old Eskbank station site on 22 October 2014.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 22/10/2014]](/images/49000/49168.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The view south towards the new Eskbank station on Sunday 26 October 2014. Note the pedestrian crossing over the trackbed has been removed and access blocked [see image 48945], with the east-west walking route to the south of the station now restored via the rebuilt bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/10/2014]](/images/49000/49209.jpg "Eskbank")
![Looking east along Whitehill Road in October 2014 over the remains of the old Millerhill up reception sidings. Under current EGIP plans part of the old yard off to the right is earmarked to accommodate a new electric train depot.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/10/2014]](/images/50000/50616.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![Shortly after passing south through the new Eskbank station on 27 October, a roadrail machine is about to cross the bridge over Hardengreen roundabout.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/10/2014]](/images/49000/49218.jpg "Eskbank")
![A tamping machine heads south at Kings Gate, just south of Sheriffhall, on 6th November 2014. The alignment of the original Edinburgh and Dalkeith railway trailed in from the right.<br><br>[David Spaven 06/11/2014]](/images/49000/49356.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![A track machine heading south past the former Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, on 6th November 2014 [see Image 40800].<br><br>[David Spaven 06/11/2014]](/images/49000/49362.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![The points controlling the changeover between single and double line sections of the Borders Railway at Kings Gate, just south of the Edinburgh City Bypass, on 23 December 2014, with everything looking fairly tidy for the Christmas shut-down. The yellow sign reads, <I>'STOP - Points 536 - Contact BAM RLC before continuing'</I>. <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/12/2014]](/images/49000/49845.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Early morning view east along the valley of the North Esk towards Dalkeith on 1 February 2015 through the single arch of Glenesk Viaduct, now carrying the Borders Railway. [See image 33085]<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/02/2015]](/images/50000/50204.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![The deck of Glenesk Viaduct looking south into the sun towards Eskbank in February 2015 [see image 39780].<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/02/2015]](/images/50000/50210.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![Looking north towards Glenesk Junction and Viaduct on 1 March 2015. The walkway/cycleway which previously continued over the viaduct now turns east onto the Dalkeith branch trackbed beyond the metal fence on the right. [See image 39780].<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/03/2015]](/images/50000/50534.jpg "Glenesk")
![The former up yard at Millerhill seen looking south from Whitehill Road on 1 March 2015. The yard access road is on the right and the admin block stands in the centre background. Part of the old yard has been earmarked under the EGIP plans as the location for a new electric train depot.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 01/03/2015]](/images/50000/50539.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![Track work in progress in the area around Kings Gate points on the Borders Railway just south of the Edinburgh City Bypass on 27 March 2015. <br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2015]](/images/50000/50783.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Another walker heading south towards Eskbank, 27 March 2015 [see image 38706].<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2015]](/images/50000/50790.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![View north through the old Eskbank station on 27 March 2015.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/03/2015]](/images/50000/50799.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![GBRf 66743 with empty stock at Millerhill on 10 April 2015.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 10/04/2015]](/images/50000/50941.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The bottom end of Millerhill Yard looking south past the former station on 12 April 2015. With the new recycling depot on the north west corner of the yard now accessible from the north, the temporary route for construction traffic has been closed and the landscape restored [see image 47809]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/04/2015]](/images/51000/51003.jpg "Millerhill")
![New infrastructure at Newtongrange, photographed on the morning of 26 April 2015, including pedestrian access from the housing developments on the west side of the line to reach the south side of the A7. The platform will be accessible via a ramp and stairway on the east side of the road bridge. [See image 13782] <br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2015]](/images/51000/51101.jpg "Newtongrange")
![Crossing Glenesk Viaduct on foot, May 2015. View is north towards Sheriffhall. Part of the diverted walkway/cycleway that once crossed the viaduct is just visible in the bottom right corner of the picture turning towards Dalkeith. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2015]](/images/51000/51150.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![A QTS vegetation management squad in action at the old Eskbank station site on 1 May 2015.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2015]](/images/51000/51159.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![The points controlling the changeover from double to single line operation at Kings Gate on the Borders Railway just south of the Edinburgh City By-pass. As can be seen in this view north west on 10 May 2015 the whole area has recently been cleaned up and landscaped. The white notice reads <I>Kings Gate Junction</I>. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/05/2015]](/images/51000/51253.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Activity at the south end of Hardengreen Viaduct on 20 May 2015.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2015]](/images/51000/51369.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![The Borders Railway crossing Hardengreen Viaduct over the A7 on 3 June 2015. Photographed looking south towards Dalhousie Mains from the pedestrian footbridge near the new Eskbank station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 03/06/2015]](/images/51000/51556.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![The 1305 to Edinburgh boards at Newcraighall during its last summer as a terminus. Apart from the livery of the trains, the updated Passenger Information Screen and the planter, not much has changed since the opening of the station 13 years before [see image 54452]. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 04/06/2015]](/images/58000/58880.jpg "Newcraighall")
![66186 takes a Network Rail ballast train south and into Millerhill yard.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 04/06/2015]](/images/58000/58944.jpg "Newcraighall")
![ScotRail 158869 passing Newtongrange station northbound on 9 June 2015 on a Borders Railway driver training run returning from Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2015]](/images/51000/51583.jpg "Newtongrange")
![Another driver training run on the Borders Railway on a bright and sunny 9 June 2015. ScotRail 158869 heads south through the site of the 1847 Eskbank station, which eventually closed in 1969. The train will pass through its new 2015 replacement around half a mile further on.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/06/2015]](/images/51000/51586.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![An empty ballast train runs south towards Millerhill Yard on 10 June 2015 behind DBS 66170. In the background ScotRail DMU 158736 has just left Newcraighall station on the other side of the A1 road bridge and is turning south west towards Shawfair with the 1157 driver training special to Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/06/2015]](/images/51000/51630.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![The 1052 Tweedbank - Newcraighall 2Z51 ScotRail 158 driver training trip crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on 11 June 2015 approximately 3 miles from its destination [see image 45688].<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/06/2015]](/images/51000/51620.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Having cleared the Edinburgh City Bypass, a ScotRail 158 heads south towards King's Gate points on the early afternoon of 15 June during a driver training run to Tweedbank. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2015]](/images/51000/51652.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Borders Railway crew training on 15 June. 158741 Southbound past the platforms at Eskbank (Old). Mind the gap!<br><br>[Bill Roberton 15/06/2015]](/images/51000/51664.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![A route training trip over the Borders Railway heading north from Tweedbank towards Newcraighall on 19 June 2015. ScotRail 158731 is approaching the former Glenesk Junction, passing the remains of the long closed Glenesk Colliery on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/2015]](/images/51000/51705.jpg "Glenesk")
![158731 crossing Glenesk Viaduct on its way north on 19 June 2015 during a Tweedbank - Newcraighall crew training turn. <br><br>[John Furnevel 19/06/2015]](/images/51000/51725.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![A Borders Railway Tweedbank - Newcraighall crew training turn about to cross Hardengreen Viaduct on 10 July on the approach to Eskbank station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/07/2015]](/images/51000/51923.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![DRS 68002 takes the Niddrie North chord at Niddrie West Junction on 14 July with the empty stock for the Fife Circle service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2015]](/images/51000/51971.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![GBRf 66732 passes Niddrie West Junction with a Carlisle - Millerhill empty ballast on 14 July.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2015]](/images/51000/51990.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Train 2Z41, the 0959 Tweedbank - Newcraighall ScotRail crew training turn, crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on 20 July 2015 as it slows for the scheduled stop at Eskbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/07/2015]](/images/52000/52020.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Heading for Tweedbank. A 158 on ScotRail crew training duty southbound in light rain on 20 July 2015. Unit 158786 is crossing Hardengreen Viaduct between Eskbank and Newtongrange.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/07/2015]](/images/52000/52035.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![A 158 Borders Railway crew training trip approaching Kings Gate points on 24 July 2015 at the northern end of the single line section from Fushiebridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2015]](/images/52000/52098.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![Ahh, the novelty of boarding a train at Newcraighall - and going south. I'm just about to do so as a 4-car 158 pulls in heading for Tweedbank on 8 September 2015, the third day of Borders rail services.<br><br>[David Panton 08/09/2015]](/images/52000/52539.jpg "Newcraighall")
![Preserved A4 Pacific 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> passing the site of Glenesk Colliery with an Edinburgh - Tweedbank steam special on 10 September 2015.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/09/2015]](/images/52000/52551.jpg "Glenesk")
![Having cleared Glenesk Viaduct between Shawfair and Eskbank on 10 September, the 1024 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank has just passed the site of the former junction for the Dalkeith branch. [See image 30685] <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/09/2015]](/images/52000/52570.jpg "Glenesk Junction")
![Bringing up the rear. 67026 <I>Diamond Jubilee</I> passing Glenesk southbound on 19 September 2015 at the rear of the steam special heading for Tweedbank behind <I>60009 Union of South Africa</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/09/2015]](/images/52000/52584.jpg "Glenesk")
![A Tweedbank to Edinburgh service calls at Eskbank in September 2015.<br><br>[David Panton 15/09/2015]](/images/52000/52620.jpg "Eskbank")
![Already a distinctly autumnal look about the north end of Millerhill yard on 23 September as 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> brings up the rear of the empty stock of a steam special heading for Waverley. On the front of the train is 67026 <I>Diamond Jubilee</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/09/2015]](/images/52000/52683.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![67026 <I>Diamond Jubilee</I> hauls a train of empty stock for a steam special out of the north end of Millerhill yard towards Waverley on 23 September 2015. At the rear of the train is A4 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/09/2015]](/images/52000/52741.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![ScotRail 158867 takes the Borders line at Newcraighall North Junction shortly after leaving Newcraighall station on a bright and sunny 1 November 2015. The train is the 1011 Edinburgh - Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/11/2015]](/images/53000/53106.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![Just to the north of the ECML, and just shy of Baileyfield S and C Works, stands this original Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway bridge. This view looks west from Sir Harry Lauder Road at the bridge over the Figgate Burn on their Leith branch. The bend in the conduit shows where the later (1858) NBR line bridge was built alongside which gave the NBR access to Leith from Portobello and paved the way for the closure of the Portobello-Niddrie section.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 24/11/2015]](/images/53000/53420.jpg "Baileyfield")
![A 158 DMU approaching Newcraighall North Junction on an overcast 19 January 2016. The train is the 1045 (Sunday) Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley.<br><br>[John Furnevel 19/01/2016]](/images/54000/54045.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![ScotRail 158739 crossing Hardengreen Viaduct with the 1045 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley on 28 February 2016. <br><br>[John Furnevel 28/02/2016]](/images/54000/54349.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Looking south at Hardengreen on 20 March 2016, with morning mist still hanging over the fields in the middle distance. The 0845 (Sunday) ex-Tweedbank is approaching the Eskbank stop running approximately 12 minutes late. ScotRail 158782 has just passed Dalhousie Mains and is about to cross the viaduct over the A7 roundabout.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/03/2016]](/images/54000/54649.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![New signage at the entrance to Millerhiil yard from Whitehill Road on 17 April 2016. Road access to the planned new EMU servicing depot is in the left background (indicated by the 'HGV this way' sign).<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2016]](/images/54000/54797.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![The 0845 Tweedbank - Edinburgh about to pass below Whitehill Road bridge as it slows for the stop at Newcraighall station on 17 April 2016. A photograph from this position has only recently become possible following the cutting back of trees and shrubs along the embankment running south from the bridge towards Millerhill Yard.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2016]](/images/54000/54804.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![Looking south towards Millerhill Yard on 17 April 2016, showing the considerable clearance of vegetation that has recently been carried out along the embankment. The entrance to the depot from Whitehill Road is on the left. In the background a Waverley bound train is approaching from the Shawfair direction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/04/2016]](/images/54000/54895.jpg "Newcraighall South Junction")
![View over Leith South yard from the former CR Leith East branch, now a footpath. Stacks of concrete sleepers, presumably for the Glasgow Queen Street rebuild, are evident.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 23/04/2016]](/images/54000/54942.jpg "Leith South")
![ScotRail 158735 has just passed the Scottish Mining Museum on the site of the former Lady Victoria Colliery with a Sunday morning service to Tweedbank. View is south from the B704 road bridge on 24 April 2016. The road here originally spanned both the Waverley route and several colliery lines, with the area on the left once housing a yard and loading plant [see image 6115]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/04/2016]](/images/54000/54963.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![ScotRail 158701, forming the 0845 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley, crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on Sunday morning 1 May 2016. The train is less than half a mile from its next scheduled stop at Eskbank. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2016]](/images/54000/54974.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![The 0911 Edinburgh - Tweedbank crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on 1 May 2016.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/05/2016]](/images/55000/55073.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![A Tweedbank service pulls into Eskbank on 10/05/2016. A belting day, a smell of blossom in the air and only a few minutes walk from a Costa Belgian chocolate brownie. Other coffee shops and cakes are available. But they're not as good.<br><br>[David Panton 10/05/2016]](/images/55000/55274.jpg "Eskbank")
![ScotRail 158710 leads the 4-car 0945 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley on 15 May 2016. The train is passing the Biogen anaerobic digestion facility at Millerhill between the Shawfair and Newcraighall stops.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/05/2016]](/images/55000/55211.jpg "Newcraighall South Junction")
![The 0911 Edinburgh - Tweedbank passing the site of Glenesk Colliery in bright morning sunshine on 22 May 2016. The train has recently crossed Glenesk Viaduct, the deck of which can be seen in the background. [See image 50584]<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2016]](/images/55000/55277.jpg "Glenesk")
![A fine May morning in 2016 sees 158727 run through the abandoned platforms of the original Eskbank station with a northbound train on the Borders Railway. <br><br>[John Furnevel 22/05/2016]](/images/63000/63112.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![D9009 speeds south through Eskbank Station.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/06/2016]](/images/55000/55526.jpg "Eskbank")
![Entrance to the former up yard at Millerhill from Whitehill Road looking south on Sunday 24 July 2016. The entrance to the site is now secured and access control arrangements have been put in place. Part of the old up yard will become the electric train depot specified in the EGIP project plan. Note the plant and equipment already on site in the centre background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/07/2016]](/images/55000/55925.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![46100 <I>Royal Scot</I> crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on 14 August 2016 with the first of the two Sunday morning runs of the ScotRail 'Borders Line Steam Special' heading for Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/08/2016]](/images/56000/56129.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![ScotRail 158712 northbound between Newwtongrange and Eskbank on 14 August 2016 about to clear Hardengreen Viaduct.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/08/2016]](/images/56000/56229.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![View from the eastern perimeter of Millerhill Yard on 7 September 2016 with modular accommodation and storage in place and fencing erected. This is the north eastern corner of the old yard, with the buffer stops marking the limit of the former ballast siding [see image 3447]. Whitehill Road runs just beyond the structures on the right. (COSHH = Control of substances hazardous to health.) The EGIP electric train depot is scheduled to open at Millerhill during 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/09/2016]](/images/56000/56421.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Leith South yard on 7 September 2016, seen from the high level trackbed of the Caledonian Leith East Goods branch. No signs of recent life in the yard, with the vehicles in the foreground alongside the south wall having become rather overgrown since they first arrived some 10 years ago. [See image 13862]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 07/09/2016]](/images/56000/56685.jpg "Leith South")
![Ex-LMS 4-6-0 46100 <I>Royal Scot</I> emerging from below the Edinburgh City Bypass on 25 September 2016 with the 0946 Edinburgh Waverley - Tweedbank <I>'Borders Line Steam Special'</I>. The train is approaching the end of the double track section at Kings Gate points immediately below the camera. This was the last day of Sunday steam specials for the 2016 season. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/09/2016]](/images/56000/56628.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![The 0845 ex-Tweedbank approaching Newcraighall on Sunday 16 October 2016. In the background work is ongoing in connection with the provision of EGIP maintenance and stabling facilities for EMUs scheduled to become operational next year. Note the demolition and clearance of the former locomotive servicing facilities is almost complete. [See image 6349] <br><br>[John Furnevel 16/10/2016]](/images/56000/56818.jpg "Newcraighall South Junction")
![More plant and equipment arriving at the new EMU depot construction site at Millerhill early on 16 October 2016. View is east along Whitehill Road with a new arrival waiting for the access gates to be opened.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/10/2016]](/images/56000/56821.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![Autumn colours abound at Newcraighall North Junction on 16 October 2016 as ScotRail 158734 turns south west towards Shawfair with a morning Borders Railway service to Tweedbank shortly after leaving Newcraighall station. <br><br>[John Furnevel 16/10/2016]](/images/59000/59102.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![Works entrance to the site of the EGIP electric train depot at Millerhill on 6 November 2016 with construction activity halted for the weekend. View is south from Whitehill Road. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/11/2016]](/images/57000/57111.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![The former station building at Millerhill looking south.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 07/11/2016]](/images/57000/57150.jpg "Millerhill")
![Preparations in progress for the new ScotRail Millerhill servicing facility for EMUs. View east along Whitehill Road from the current yard entrance on 27 November 2016. The area in the background will be the access point for plant and materials being brought in by road transport.<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/11/2016]](/images/57000/57277.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![View north west from Whitehill Road bridge towards Newcraighall station on 27 November 2016, with work underway presumably in connection with the proposed EGIP electric train depot (?).<br><br>[John Furnevel 27/11/2016]](/images/57000/57298.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![Passengers boarding the 0931 ScotRail service to Edinburgh at Newtongrange on 1 December 2016. I can't help wondering what the sapling survival rate is in the area to the right between the railway fence and the houses of Jenks Loan.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/12/2016]](/images/57000/57349.jpg "Newtongrange")
![Work in progress thought to be in connection with the new ScotRail electric train depot at Millerhill on 15 December 2016 (?). View is north west from Whitehill Road towards Newcraighall station and the bridge carrying the A1 over the formation. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/12/2016]](/images/57000/57458.jpg "Millerhill Yard Up Arrival Sidings")
![At 1022 on 18 December 2016, another one of those grey winter days when it never seems to achieve real daylight, the Sunday morning 0945 ex-Tweedbank comes off Hardengreen Viaduct and begins to slow for the Eskbank stop just behind the camera.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/12/2016]](/images/57000/57568.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Intermittent showers of sleet driven by a freezing wind bid welcome to Millerhill on Boxing Day morning 2016. View is east from Whitehill Road over the entrance for plant and equipment to be used on the new ScotRail EMU depot.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/12/2016]](/images/57000/57569.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![Sunday morning activity at Millerhill on 22 January 2017 as Freightliner 66551 ambles through the yard. Works in connection with the new ScotRail EMU depot are underway in the background, with the former locomotive servicing facilities having recently been removed.<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/01/2017]](/images/57000/57856.jpg "Millerhill Marshalling Yard")
![Running through Newcraighall South Junction onto the single line section on 22 January 2017 is the rainsoaked ScotRail 0945 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Waverley. The train is slowing for its next stop at Newcraighall station, located on the other side of the bridge carrying Whitehill Road. Running along the top left of the picture, just beyond the tree line, is the road that now links the the Biogen anaerobic digestion facility, opened last year, with Whitehill Road. [See image 51265]<br><br>[John Furnevel 22/01/2017]](/images/58000/58053.jpg "Newcraighall South Junction")
![View south from Whitehill Road over the north east corner of Millerhill Yard on Sunday 26 February 2017. All was fairly quiet, although some excavation work was taking place further south beyond the fence. Over on the west side of the former yard is the Biogen food waste recycling plant, with construction work in progress on the much larger RERC facility beyond. [See image 58019] <br><br>[John Furnevel 26/02/2017]](/images/58000/58239.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![ScotRail 170461 runs south onto the single line section at Kings Gate points on 26 February 2017. The train is the Sunday morning 0911 Edinburgh - Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/02/2017]](/images/58000/58369.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![The 0945 (Sunday) ex-Tweedbank slows for the Newtongrange stop during a wet and blustery morning on 19 March 2017. The building on the right once served as the NCB Lady Victoria Colliery locomotive shed [see image 6114].<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/03/2017]](/images/58000/58547.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![Looking south along the former Waverley Route. The course of the facing junction and line into the new electric depot are taking shape on the left, while a 66 with the North Blyth - Fort William alumina train is stopped due to a landslip in the Glasgow area. 4 April.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/04/2017]](/images/58000/58725.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![158 705 passes the site of the demolished Millerhill Depot with a Tweedbank service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 04/04/2017]](/images/58000/58745.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![The 0954 ex-Edinburgh Waverley crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on 6 April 2017 on its way to Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/04/2017]](/images/58000/58760.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![Information board about the new Millerhill Depot attached to the fence alongside Whitehill Road on 23 April 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/04/2017]](/images/58000/58987.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The north east corner of Millerhill yard, seen from Whitehill Road on 23 April 2017, looking flat and featureless save for a lone siding. Meantime, in the south east sector of the yard, beyond the fence in the left background, construction work continues apace on the the new Millerhill EMU depot. [See image 58987] <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/04/2017]](/images/58000/58993.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The ScotRail 0924 Edinburgh - Tweedbank crossing Hardengreen Viaduct on 18 May 2017, seen looking south west towards the roundabout along the B6392.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/05/2017]](/images/59000/59352.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![About to cross the Dead Burn (a tributary of the North Esk) on the approach to Kings Gate points on Sunday 28 May 2017 is ScotRail 170409 forming the 0911 Edinburgh - Tweedbank. The points are at the northern end of the single line section from Fushiebridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/05/2017]](/images/59000/59491.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Approaching the end of the single line section from Fushiebridge at Kings Gate on 28 May 2017 is the 6-car 0845 Tweedbank - Edinburgh.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/05/2017]](/images/59000/59523.jpg "Sheriffhall [2nd]")
![A southbound train on the Borders Railway emerges from below the Edinburgh City Bypass and approaches Kings Gate Points on 28 May 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 28/05/2017]](/images/59000/59563.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![This was taken mid-afternoon on Saturday 10/6/17 showing the new point, for the Millerhill Electric Train Depot, installed (I believe) on Sunday 4/6/17. I was photobombed by Northern Sprinter 156454 (en route to the Glasgow Works), but sometimes you just can't win!<br><br>[Jeffray Wotherspoon 10/06/2017]](/images/59000/59609.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![A closer view of the point for the new Millerhill Electric Train Depot. Behind can be seen further trackwork and catenary at the depot site. The proposed layout can be found at <a target=external href=https://planning-applications.midlothian.gov.uk/OnlinePlanning/files/4F9AB2788286ED4EB3173427B1B05ABC/pdf/15_00884_DPP-C_-_APPROVED_Proposed_Site_Layout-241027.pdf>Midlothian Planning</a>.<br><br>[Jeffray Wotherspoon 10/06/2017]](/images/59000/59617.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![A view showing the nearly completed work to install the second point and piece the signalling back together.<br><br>[Jeffray Wotherspoon 11/06/2017]](/images/59000/59622.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Looking south over track and signalling work to connect the new electric train depot on the 18th of June.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/06/2017]](/images/59000/59686.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Engineering possession at Millerhill on Sunday 18 June 2017, with work in progress in connection with the planned EGIP electric train depot. The two new sets of points will access the depot, with those nearest routed via a washing plant. All scheduled train movements were cancelled for the day, including those on the Borders Railway, just off picture to the right, where a replacement bus service was in operation between Edinburgh and Gorebridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/06/2017]](/images/59000/59712.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![A slightly different view on the works at Millerhill EMU depot showing progress on the line into the depot and electrification.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 18/06/2017]](/images/59000/59743.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![ScotRail 158734 crossing Glenesk Viaduct on 6 July 2017 with the 1024 Edinburgh - Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/07/2017]](/images/60000/60045.jpg "Glenesk Viaduct")
![View across the old yard that once formed part of Glenesk Colliery, photographed looking north in July 2017. The area is here being used for the storage of pipes and various building materials. Approaching the site of the former Glenesk Junction in the background is the ScotRail 0959 Tweedbank- Edinburgh service. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/07/2017]](/images/61000/61242.jpg "Glenesk Junction")
![Construction of stabling roads and erection of catenary associated with the new Millerhill electric train depot well advanced on 9 July 2017. View south east over the freight-only lines, with the Borders Railway behind the camera. <br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2017]](/images/59000/59961.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![A 4-car DMU on a Tweedbank – Edinburgh service about to pass below the bridge carrying the B704 road as it approaches the Newtongrange stop on 9 July 2017. The photograph was taken from the roadside 100m west of the bridge. The wood in the background stands on the site of the loading area and sidings that once served Lady Victoria Pit. [See image 6116] [Ref query 1096]<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2017]](/images/60000/60021.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
![With 170405 leading and 158740 bringing up the rear, the ScotRail 0845 Tweedbank - Edinburgh comes off Hardengreen Viaduct on 9 July 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/07/2017]](/images/62000/62732.jpg "Hardengreen Viaduct")
![An access break in the fence separating the Millerhill freight lines and the site of the new electric train depot, photographed on 13 July 2017 looking north towards Newcraighall station. Behind the fence is residual rubble from the demolition of the former MPD and, beyond that, the framework of the new train washing plant together with various new buildings under construction. The sign would be worth preserving!<br><br>[John Furnevel 13/07/2017]](/images/60000/60060.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![Work in progress in the area around the train washing plant at the new Millerhill EMU depot. View east across the freight lines on 16 July 2017, with the new depot located beyond the fence.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/07/2017]](/images/60000/60030.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![The new train washing plant at Millerhill on 6 August 2017, looking almost complete.<br><br>[John Furnevel 06/08/2017]](/images/60000/60270.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![The cyclist has just left Duddingston Road West and is heading north west along the trackbed of the line to St Leonards (the so-called <I>Innocent Railway</I>). In just over half a mile he will enter the tunnel under Holyrood Park. Photographed on 6 August 2017 looking over the site of the level crossing. (At some point in the past 13 years the gatepost on the left has been repositioned nearer the centre of the old trackbed [see image 6125].) The line between Duddingston Junction and St Leonards was closed (along with St Leonards goods depot) in 1968. <br><br>[John Furnevel 06/08/2017]](/images/60000/60421.jpg "Cairntows Level Crossing")
![Black 5 44871 about to run south through Kings Gate points on 20 August 2017 with the 0843 steam special ex-Linlithgow heading for Tweedbank.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60438.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Black 5 44871 runs south through Kings Gate points on 20 August 2017 with a Linlithgow - Tweedbank steam special.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/08/2017]](/images/60000/60681.jpg "Kings Gate Points")
![Progress at Millerhill on 3 September 2017. General view south showing the second of the new junctions, with the line now running past the washing plant towards the stabling bays, just visible through the clutter in the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/09/2017]](/images/60000/60615.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![Survivor... standing alongside the footbridge at Niddrie West Junction - September 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/09/2017]](/images/60000/60803.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![GBRf 66709 takes the Millerhill route at Niddrie West Junction on 10 September 2017 with a trainload of spent ballast. The locomotive is in 'MSC Sorrento' promotional livery. Note the new housing development now occupying the site of Niddrie Yard [see image 4546].<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/09/2017]](/images/60000/60840.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![I last visited this location in 1985, when I took a photo [see image 18724]. Looking at other RailScot images it has all been downhill since then! The old station buiding is having some work done. This was once on the Waverley Route, but the Borders Railway made a deviation to the west in the section containing Shawfair station. The new line and the course of the old one converge, coincidentally, where King's Gate Junction now is.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 15/09/2017]](/images/60000/60902.jpg "Millerhill")
![The British Rail Helvetica typeface dates this one. 'Millerhill Freight<br>
Services T & R S Stores' Whatever they were (and please don't tell me) they<br>
are surely not there now. The June 2012 pass of the Google Street View<br>
camera shows that there was a steam loco road sign here then, but it's not<br>
there now. Also, somebody thought this was the ideal place to pitch up tent.<br>
<br>
<a href=https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@55.9148381,-3.0801154,3a,49.<br>
2y,103.58h,88.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1syZjJMi_qnGIc71WfEntt_g!2e0!7i13312!<br>
8i6656>See the tent on Google Streetview.</a><br><br>[David Panton 15/09/2017]](/images/61000/61107.jpg "Millerhill")
![A 4-car 158 set coming off the Borders route at Newcraighall North Junction on 17 September 2017. The 0945 Tweedebank - Edinburgh is about to pass below the road bridge carrying the A1 before its next stop at Newcraighall station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/09/2017]](/images/60000/60954.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![The 0740 (Sunday) Cambuslang - Millerhill ballast train runs south past Newcraighall station on 17 September 2017 behind GBRf 66741 <I>'Swanage Railway'</I>.<br><br>[John Furnevel 17/09/2017]](/images/61000/61010.jpg "Newcraighall")
![ScotRail 170477, forming the Sunday 1011 Edinburgh - Tweedbank service, about to arrive at the platform at Newcraighall on 17 September 2017. The freight line to Millerhill runs past on the right and the 'feathers' on the signal are for the Niddrie South - Niddrie West freight-only route.<br><br>[John Furnevel 18/09/2017]](/images/61000/61003.jpg "Newcraighall")
![GBRf 66723 <I>Chinook</I> runs into Millerhill yard from the north with a PW train on 24 September 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/09/2017]](/images/61000/61082.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![DRS 66431 and two friends waiting to leave Millerhill sidings on the morning of 24 September 2017 with an empty ballast train. The stabling and cleaning roads of the under construction EGIP electric train depot stand in the background, with new track panels stacked beyond.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/09/2017]](/images/60000/60883.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![SB Rail tamper DR 73803 restarts northbound out of Millerhill Yard following a signal check on 24 September 2017. The unit had been engaged in preparatory work on the new ScotRail stabling sidings. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/09/2017]](/images/61000/61113.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![Looking north from Whitehill Road bridge towards Newcraighall North Junction on 24 September 2017 as the 0911 Edinburgh - Tweedbank takes the Borders line shortly after restarting from Newcraighall station.<br><br>[John Furnevel 24/09/2017]](/images/61000/61124.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![ZA723, alias GBRf 66723 <I>Chinook</I> [see image 34380] arrives at the north end of Millerhill Yard with a ballast train from Cambuslang on 24 September 2017. Sunday morning construction work is taking place on the new ScotRail EMU depot in the background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/09/2017]](/images/62000/62006.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![The 1031 Millerhill SS - Keith Loop, photographed running between Niddrie South and Niddrie West Junctions on 8 October 2017. Freightliner 66597 is at the head of the train of concrete sleepers, with 66952 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61094.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Weekend work in progress at Millerhill on 8 October 2017. The activity is centred around the route of the line between the northerly of the two new junctions [see image 59712] and the washing plant in the background, through which track has already been laid. <br><br>[John Furnevel 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61110.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![Artist's inpression of the Edinburgh and Midlothian Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre, currently under construction below the crane in the background on the west side of the former Millerhill marshalling yard. View is south from Whitehill Road just west of the entrance to the yard on 8 October 2017. Part of the Biogen food waste processing plant is visible on the left.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61256.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Freightliner 66952 brings up the rear of a freight from Millerhill south sidings about to run through Niddrie West Junction on the morning of Sunday 8 October 2017. The concrete sleepers are destined for Keith.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61964.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![GBRf 66717 takes the right fork at Niddrie West Junction with a freight on 15 October 2017. The train is the 6K25 0730 Cambuslang - Millerhill SS ballast.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/10/2017]](/images/61000/61403.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![The old station house at Eskbank and Dalkeith.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 30/10/2017]](/images/61000/61838.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![1354 ex-Waverley rushing past Eskbank & Dalkeith.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 30/10/2017]](/images/62000/62007.jpg "Eskbank and Dalkeith")
![Scene at the south end of Millerhill Yard on the morning of 5 November 2017. View is east across the running lines towards the new cleaning and stabling roads, which appear to be more or less complete.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/11/2017]](/images/61000/61575.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![Ballast arriving at Millerhill on 5 November 2017 behind 66077 about to enter the yard past Newcraighall North Junction. The train is the 0820 Perth - Millerhill SS.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/11/2017]](/images/61000/61761.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![Part of the northern section of the new ScotRail EMU depot at Millerhill on 12 November 2017. View is east across the running lines, with tracklaying and main construction work looking almost complete. The stabling / cleaning roads are located off to the right [see image 61575]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/11/2017]](/images/61000/61897.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![New steps have recently appeared on Whitehill Road, Millerhill, seen here looking east on 1 January 2018. The steps, which feature a gated access, stand opposite the main entrance to Millerhill Depot (top right). Given the increased numbers of personnel who will be using the new EMU depot (admin, cleaners, train crews etc), the steps are thought to form part of a direct 'staff only' walkway between here and Newcraighall station, which stands 250m off to the left [see image 61124]. (Note that, despite the close proximity of the station, the shortest 'official' pedestrian route between the two is currently just over 1.5 km.) [Ref query 1 January 2018]<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2018]](/images/62000/62355.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![The gate on Whitehill Road giving access to the newly constructed steps [see image 62355]. View north on 1 January 2018 with the entrance to Millerhill Depot behind the camera. Newcraighall station is in the right background below the road bridge which carries the A1 over the railway.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2018]](/images/62000/62358.jpg "Millerhill Yard")
![Freightliner 66956 about to run back towards the south sidings at Millerhill on 1 January 2018. The junctions for the new ScotRail EMU Depot can be seen in the left background, with the depot itself located off to the right beyond the wire fence. <br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2018]](/images/62000/62434.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![News Years Day 2018 at Millerhill sees Freightliner 66956 passing some of the new infrastructure associated with the ScotRail EMU Depot which is scheduled to come into operation later this year.<br><br>[John Furnevel 01/01/2018]](/images/62000/62480.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![158713, on the 1422hrs Waverley to Tweedbank service, after passing Newcraighall on 15th January 2018. Beyond is the new EMU depot, complete with electric train.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[John Yellowlees 15/01/2018]](/images/62000/62570.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![The Voestalpine VAE works was fomerly known as Baileyfield S&C (switch and<br>
crossing) and is still making points and the like as it has been doing for<br>
over 100 years. Ironically, it is no longer rail-served although there is<br>
still a vegetation choked physical connection with the rusting Leith South<br>
branch. The gates in the middle distance show where the siding entered<br>
with the branch beyond it. Looking towards Leith on 8th February 2018.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 08/02/2018]](/images/62000/62865.jpg "Baileyfield")
![Meadows signal box was between the two pairs of lines which pass under<br>
Seafield Road. It was in the middle of this picture, taken on 12th February 2018.<br>
<br>
Looking west. The moribund South Leith (or Leith South) branch lies between<br>
the fence and the digger engaged in intriguing groundwork. These are<br>
Network Rail vans on the right. I wonder what is going on; is the branch<br>
being measured up for a coffin, perhaps? For a yesteryear photo, see:<br>
<br>
https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/rock_dinosaur/77029914/864393/864393_1000.jpg<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 12/02/2018]](/images/62000/62920.jpg "Meadows Box [2nd]")
![385103 leaves Millerhill emu depot on 20th February 2018, bound for Waverley and test runs to Dunbar. In the right foreground is the Borders Railway.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/02/2018]](/images/62000/62976.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![66078 passes Niddrie West Junction with Dalzell - Tees Dock empty steel carriers on 20th February 2018.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/02/2018]](/images/63000/63000.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![385103 passes Newcraighall North Junction heading for Edinburgh Waverley during test runs on 20th February 2018. <br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/02/2018]](/images/63000/63007.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![The 0931 Millerhill SS - Leuchars ballast train crawls past the washing plant at Millerhill EMU depot shortly after commencing its journey on 11 March 2018. The locomotive is Freightliner 66547. <br><br>[John Furnevel 11/03/2018]](/images/63000/63180.jpg "Millerhill EGIP Depot")
![ScotRail 170450 is about to come off the Borders line at Newcraighall North Junction with the 0845 Tweedbank - Edinburgh Sunday service on 11 March 2018. The train is slowing for the stop at Newcraighall station just beyond the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 11/03/2018]](/images/63000/63237.jpg "Newcraighall North Junction")
![ScotRail 170418 runs south towards Gorebridge shortly after leaving Newtongrange on 21 January 2018. The train is passing the industrial site occupying the yard that once served Lady Victoria Colliery, with the old NCB locomotive shed still standing on the extreme right [see image 6114]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/12/2018]](/images/62000/62655.jpg "Lady Victoria Pit Signalbox")
