Lothian Lines (North British Railway)

Introduction

The Lothian Lines are now entirely closed with the exception of; - a very short section over the River Esk at Monktonhall Junction where the East Coast Main Line has been diverted onto the southern of two bridges - the former line serving Meadows Yard between King's Road Junction and Meadows Box [2nd]. These lines were built to relieve the traffic problems (particularly coal from mines) between Leith, Portobello, Niddrie and Monktonhall Junction. Much of the system was single track with the exception of double track lines in Seafield and from Wanton Walls Junction to Monktonhall Junction. The system also included Craigentinny Meadows Yard (near Seafield), the replacement of a level crossing at Seafield with a bridge over the existing and new lines, a connection from Meadows Yard to the Caley system, expansion of NBR sidings at Seafield, and sidings for the Lady Victoria Colliery. A planned connection from the Caledonian Railway's Seafield line to the Leith Central line was not built. With Leith South Yard and the new Millerhill Marshalling Yard working together the closure of many of the Lothian Lines in 1967 is surprising. Their closure is perhaps a measure of the huge decline in traffic through Portobello East Junction.

Why built

Such was the volume of traffic passing through that nexus of the North British Railway east of Edinburgh, Portobello East Junction, that there were considerable delays to coal traffic from the Lothian mines to Leith, priority being given to the East Coast Main Line. Coal mine owners were going to promote their own independent route to the docks and the Caledonian Railway might be courted as part of this. Thus, grudgingly, the North British Railway was forced to build a duplicate system of lines in competition with their own existing system of lines - the new railways being the Lothian Lines.

Leith Imperial Dock had opened in 1898 and, with this new line, it was to be served with more sorting sidings at Leith South Yard and marshalling sidings at Meadows Yard.






Dates

  /  /1913Lothian Lines (North British Railway)
New Lothian Lines authorised, particularly as relief lines for colliery traffic. Railways Nos 2 to 12 and the South Leith Branch connection were not to be used for passenger traffic. The Lothian colliery owners were given the power to provide their own wagons and North British not obliged to provide wagons where the colliery uses its own wagons. In addition further sidings were authorised at Granton and the Caledonian Railway authorised to have facilities.
  /  /1915Lothian Lines (North British Railway)
Opened.
  /  /1916Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway
Lothian Lines (North British Railway)
Additional sidings at Granton Harbour authorised. Caledonian Railway's access to sidings authorised in 1913 (as part of the Lothian Lines) repealed.

Route described

The railway authorised consisted of a series of linking lines, not a continuous line of railway, chiefly giving access to South Leith from the Waverley Route, East Coast Main Line, Macmerry branch and Suburban line. See full description below.


Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Railway No. 1

This curve was not built. It was to be a south (junction with the Leith Central Branch (North British Railway)) to east (junction with the Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway). It would have given access to Seafield from the Easter Road lines.




Railway No. 2

This double line from Leith South Yard to Meadows Box [2nd] was on the north side of the existing line and would quadruple the line from the yard to Meadows.

This marshalling yard was developed to the north of the South Leith branch to the east of the station on reclaimed land. The yard served the Leith Docks. It is approached from the east, from Portobello, and fans out over a wide area between Seafield Road and Marine Esplanade.
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08714 shunts vans at Leith South Yard in 1977.
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Bill Roberton //1977
Lost Railfreight. A Polybulk grain hopper being discharged at Leith South in 1981. #COP26 ...
Bill Roberton //1981
A former GNSR coach body, grounded at the west end of Leith South Yard (just south of the timber yard) in 1975. It would later be moved to Boat of ...
Bill Roberton //1975
Lost Railfreight A class 08 shunts a couple of ammonia tanks at Leith South in 1990. There has been no revenue-earning traffic here for ...
Bill Roberton //1990
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Seafield Junction was at the Marine Esplanade Level Crossing (now called Seafield Level Crossing).
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Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
Shortly after leaving Leith South Yard for Millerhill on a sunny morning in July 2007 an engineers train is brought to a halt at signal FP616, to the ...
John Furnevel 09/07/2007
The late lamented and long lattice footbridge at Seafield in a view looking south in 1999. ...
Ewan Crawford //1999
Death of a footbridge. View west along Seafield Road towards Leith on 5 August 2014, with the footbridge at Seafield Level Crossing now fenced off ...
John Furnevel 05/08/2014
Lost Railfreight. 09205 passes Seafield level crossing with a Millerhill (ex-Oxwellmains) to Leith South trip working in 2001. This was a ...
Bill Roberton //2001
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A view from Seafield Road East looking east. The track looks recently used, maybe driver training? (Does anyone know?) Certainly no traffic at ...
John Yellowlees 21/07/2023
The original course of the Leith South line was in the foreground, running along the coast before land was reclaimed. The later alignment went the ...
David Panton 18/06/2020
I am standing at the exact location of Meadows Box and looking along the moribund South Leith Branch towards Leith. Craigentinny Meadows became ...
David Panton 07/05/2020
Meadows signal box was between the two pairs of lines which pass under Seafield Road. It was in the middle of this picture, taken on 12th February ...
David Panton 12/02/2018
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Railway No. 3

This was the double track connection to the Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway), south of Seafield Viaduct, from Meadows Yard. It ran from Seafield Road Junction to Meadows Junction.

This junction was at the south end of the Caledonian Railway's Seafield Viaduct which crossed Seafield Road and the east end of the North British Railway's Seafield Yard by Seafield Junction [NB].
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Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway)
There was once a confusion of lines in the Seafield area of Leith; this location was near (but not directly connected to) Seafield Road Junction. The ...
David Panton 07/11/2019
Looking south in December 2004 at the remaining abutment of the bridge across Seafield Street which carried the NB line on its way up from Meadows ...
John Furnevel 10/12/2004
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This junction was at the north end of Meadows Yard. The line ran south from here into the yard. To the north it divided into two double track lines with the more southerly line running to meet the Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway) at Seafield Road Junction and the other running to Meadows Box [2nd].
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Black-liveried 08730 passes the site of Meadows Junction in 1992, on its way from Millerhill Depot to Leith South Yard.
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Bill Roberton //1992
A coal train for Cockenzie power station, having left Leith Docks via Leith South yard, emerges from the bridge under Seafield Road in February 2006. ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
A look east along the South Leith Branch to the point where it went under Seafield Road at the location of Meadows box. Meadows Junction was in the ...
David Panton 07/05/2020
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 ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
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Railway No. 4

A short double track line ran from the existing South Leith branch at Meadows Box [2nd] to the new lines at Meadows Junction.

A view from Seafield Road East looking east. The track looks recently used, maybe driver training? (Does anyone know?) Certainly no traffic at ...
John Yellowlees 21/07/2023
The original course of the Leith South line was in the foreground, running along the coast before land was reclaimed. The later alignment went the ...
David Panton 18/06/2020
I am standing at the exact location of Meadows Box and looking along the moribund South Leith Branch towards Leith. Craigentinny Meadows became ...
David Panton 07/05/2020
Meadows signal box was between the two pairs of lines which pass under Seafield Road. It was in the middle of this picture, taken on 12th February ...
David Panton 12/02/2018
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This junction was at the north end of Meadows Yard. The line ran south from here into the yard. To the north it divided into two double track lines with the more southerly line running to meet the Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway) at Seafield Road Junction and the other running to Meadows Box [2nd].
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Black-liveried 08730 passes the site of Meadows Junction in 1992, on its way from Millerhill Depot to Leith South Yard.
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Bill Roberton //1992
A coal train for Cockenzie power station, having left Leith Docks via Leith South yard, emerges from the bridge under Seafield Road in February 2006. ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
A look east along the South Leith Branch to the point where it went under Seafield Road at the location of Meadows box. Meadows Junction was in the ...
David Panton 07/05/2020
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 ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
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Railway No. 5

This was a very short section of double track between Meadows Junction and Meadows Yard.

This junction was at the north end of Meadows Yard. The line ran south from here into the yard. To the north it divided into two double track lines with the more southerly line running to meet the Leith New Lines (Caledonian Railway) at Seafield Road Junction and the other running to Meadows Box [2nd].
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Black-liveried 08730 passes the site of Meadows Junction in 1992, on its way from Millerhill Depot to Leith South Yard.
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Bill Roberton //1992
A coal train for Cockenzie power station, having left Leith Docks via Leith South yard, emerges from the bridge under Seafield Road in February 2006. ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
A look east along the South Leith Branch to the point where it went under Seafield Road at the location of Meadows box. Meadows Junction was in the ...
David Panton 07/05/2020
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 ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
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This yard was on the Lothian Lines (North British Railway) close to Seafield and South Leith. It was also known as Craigentinny Meadows Yard. It was built on undeveloped land south west of South Leith.
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Looking east towards the former Meadows Yard from Fillyside Road in April 2004. The location is now a neighbourhood nature area see image 6697. ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2004
EWS 66028 passing through the former Meadows Yard eastbound in February 2006 with imported coal from Leith Docks heading for Cockenzie power station. ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
The enthusiast #1. A young Craig Seath observes activity in Meadows Yard, between Leith Docks and Potobello, around 1963. View is from ...
Craig Seath Collection //1963
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Railway No. 6

This line comprised both Meadows Yard and the double track line to Kings Road Junction.

This yard was on the Lothian Lines (North British Railway) close to Seafield and South Leith. It was also known as Craigentinny Meadows Yard. It was built on undeveloped land south west of South Leith.
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Looking east towards the former Meadows Yard from Fillyside Road in April 2004. The location is now a neighbourhood nature area see image 6697. ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2004
EWS 66028 passing through the former Meadows Yard eastbound in February 2006 with imported coal from Leith Docks heading for Cockenzie power station. ...
John Furnevel 07/02/2006
The enthusiast #1. A young Craig Seath observes activity in Meadows Yard, between Leith Docks and Potobello, around 1963. View is from ...
Craig Seath Collection //1963
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This junction and box were on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway's South Leith branch. The box opened with the development of the Lothian Lines (North British Railway).
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Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
The Leith South (or Docks) line seems to have fallen into desuetude. This is the point where it goes under Inchview Terrace, and we are looking ...
David Panton 14/05/2020
The Leith South branch is out of regular use and vegetation is encroaching. This view looks north towards the site of Kings Road Junction (See image ...
David Panton 14/04/2020
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Railway No. 7

This was the principal part of the line with which most would associate it - a long single track line from South Leith Junction to Brunstane Park Junction (later Niddrie North of the Lothian Lines) to Wanton Walls Junction which bypassed the busy Portobello East Junction. But it also incorporated the double track section from Wanton Wells Junction to Monktonhall Junction. From a double track junction at South Leith Junction it ran round the north of Portobello Yard, crossed the North British Railway main line just west of Joppa station, then crossed the Waverley Route, before crossing over Niddrie North Junction overhead (where it had its equivalent Brunstane Park Junction), then to Wanton Walls Junction where the existing Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway line was modified to not make the Niddrie East Junction connection but to continue, as a double line to Monktonhall Junction where the Macmerry branch was joined. A connection to the main line was also made - see railway no 12.

In 1858 a curve was opened from the 1846 North British Railway to the South Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.
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North British Railway
A consignment of Russian coal on its way from Leith Docks to Cockenzie PS in April 2007. EWS 66059 is climbing from the site of South Leith Junction ...
John Furnevel 13/04/2007
A class 322 EMU from North Berwick bound for Waverley speeds through Portobello on the ECML in March 2007, just as an EWS class 66 hauling imported ...
John Furnevel 22/03/2007
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This junction opened with the Lothian Lines (North British Railway). Here three single track lines from the south, one from Niddrie West Junction, one from Niddrie South Junction and the other from Wanton Walls Junction [1st] met. These then ran north, as a single track, to South Leith Junction.
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Course of the Lothian Lines 'main' line seen looking north on the approach to Niddrie North Junction. There was no level crossing here as the street ...
David Panton 23/04/2020
A look north west along the course of the Lothian Lines 'main' line. Wanton Walls junction was behind me, Niddrie North was (and is) ahead. The tarred ...
David Panton 08/04/2020
The single line between Niddrie North and Wanton Walls Junction see image 1404 originally passed through open countryside. Nowadays, in addition ...
John Furnevel 15/07/2018
You really need a map to make sense of the confusion of
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David Panton 30/10/2010
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This was the junction between the single track line from Niddrie North Junction [Lothian Lines] (originally Brunstane Park Junction) and an altered double track connection to the line west to Niddrie West Junction. Both then ran south east as a double track to Monktonhall Junction to meet the Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway) and a connection to the East Coast Main Line. ...

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I have to check a map every time this confusing area comes up. This overbridge is on the exact site of the original Wanton Walls Junction where the ...
David Panton 22/05/2021
Wanton Walls Junction was just off to the right here; the remains of the Lothians Lines bridge can be seen in the background. When this picture was ...
David Panton 26/05/1995
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This was a junction which was formed in 1961 with the opening of the Millerhill Marshalling Yard (British Railways) which met the existing Niddrie West Junction to Monktonhall Junction route here. It appears that at first the junction was unnamed, considered part of Monktonhall Junction, but after closure of Wanton Walls Junction [1st] in 1967 the name was transferred to this ...

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Millerhill Marshalling Yard (British Railways)
The far bridge carries the ECML while the nearer one is for the eastern end of the elegant 'S' which carries the 1960s Monktonhall to Millerhill ...
David Panton 30/05/2021
The connection between the Monktonhall to Niddrie West line and the new Millerhill 'S' was called Wanton Walls Junction, the name pinched (why?) from ...
David Panton 29/05/1995
View from a diverted North Berwick-bound DMU. Looking west in 1989 along, on the left, the disused trackbed of the Lothian Lines line from Monktonhall ...
Bill Roberton //1989
On the afternoon of 5 February 1970, BRCW Type 2 No. 5303 approaches Monktonhall Junction off the chord from Millerhill Yard with a loaded MGR coal ...
Bill Jamieson 05/02/1970
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This junction has had several different layouts and refers to several slightly different locations. The original junction was for the Macmerry Branch (North British Railway) the present version is between the East Coast Main Line (former North British Railway) and line to Millerhill Marshalling Yard (British Railways).
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North British Railway
Macmerry Branch (North British Railway)
A Virgin Trains East Coast service to Kings Cross photographed six miles out from Waverley in the spring of 2018. The train has just come off the long ...
John Furnevel 03/05/2018
There are two bridges over the River Esk close to Monktonhall Junction. The bridge to the right is the original North British Railway bridge and the ...
Duncan Ross 22/05/2021
A northbound cement train photographed shortly after turning west off the ECML at Monktonhall Junction on 19 July 2018. GBRf 66736 is on the 1961 BR ...
John Furnevel 19/07/2018
View south east towards Monktonhall Junction in 1999, taken from the trackbed of the NB Lothian Lines route to Wanton Walls Junction. The ECML is on ...
Ewan Crawford //1999
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Railway No. 8

This was a short double track section between the goods lines at Portobello West Junction ([North British Railway]] main line) and South Leith Junction (Lothian Lines). It allowed trains from the west to take to the south without fouling Portobello East Junction. It also allowed trains from the south to take the goods lines to the west without crossing the passenger lines and bypassing Portobello Yard.

This was the junction between the North British Railway main line and its short connecting curve which ran north to meet the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway's South Leith branch. The curve allowed trains from the east to join the branch and vice versa. It was opened to the west of Portobello [2nd] station.
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North British Railway
New Portobello Station (North British Railway)
Portobello Yard (North British Railway)
View from Baileyfield Road looking east with the moribund Leith South branch, above me to the left, rising sharply towards the junction at Portobello. ...
David Panton 19/08/2021
One of the recently delivered ScotRail class 380 EMUs passing the site of Portobello West Junction with a North Berwick - Waverley service on 1 August ...
John Furnevel 01/08/2011
A Virgin Trains ECML service about to cross Baileyfield Road, Portobello, on 7 September 2016. Running off to the left is Sir Harry Lauder Road, which ...
John Furnevel 07/09/2016
A complete load of rubbish. A full complement of compacted refuse containers from Powderhall eastbound through Portobello in August 2011 en route to ...
John Furnevel 01/08/2011
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In 1858 a curve was opened from the 1846 North British Railway to the South Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.
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North British Railway
A consignment of Russian coal on its way from Leith Docks to Cockenzie PS in April 2007. EWS 66059 is climbing from the site of South Leith Junction ...
John Furnevel 13/04/2007
A class 322 EMU from North Berwick bound for Waverley speeds through Portobello on the ECML in March 2007, just as an EWS class 66 hauling imported ...
John Furnevel 22/03/2007
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Railway No. 9

This short single track curve ran from Brunstane Park Junction to Niddrie West Junction. This have access to the west via the Suburban line and Niddrie Yard was located here, the precursor to the Millerhill Marshalling Yard.

This junction opened with the Lothian Lines (North British Railway). Here three single track lines from the south, one from Niddrie West Junction, one from Niddrie South Junction and the other from Wanton Walls Junction [1st] met. These then ran north, as a single track, to South Leith Junction.
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Course of the Lothian Lines 'main' line seen looking north on the approach to Niddrie North Junction. There was no level crossing here as the street ...
David Panton 23/04/2020
A look north west along the course of the Lothian Lines 'main' line. Wanton Walls junction was behind me, Niddrie North was (and is) ahead. The tarred ...
David Panton 08/04/2020
The single line between Niddrie North and Wanton Walls Junction see image 1404 originally passed through open countryside. Nowadays, in addition ...
John Furnevel 15/07/2018
You really need a map to make sense of the confusion of
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David Panton 30/10/2010
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This junction is between the single track line from Portobello East Junction and the double track from Niddrie South Junction. The line runs west to Craiglockhart Junction round the Edinburgh Suburban line (the former Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway).
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Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
An empty ballast train returning to Millerhill South Sidings on 1 July 2018 runs through Niddrie West Junction on the sub towards Brunstane. The ...
John Furnevel 01/07/2018
A Sunday morning ballast train returning from Cambuslang to Millerhill South Sidings on a bright and sunny autumn morning in October 2017. GBRf 66717 ...
John Furnevel 15/10/2017
A PW working conveying spoil and spent ballast on its way back to Millerhill from Carstairs on 10 September 2017. The train is seen here on the ...
John Furnevel 10/09/2017
Empty coaching stock used by ScotRail on the Fife Circle services approaching Niddrie West Junction on the morning of 11 August 2019 on its way from ...
John Furnevel 11/08/2019
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Railway No. 10

This short connection ran from Brunstane Park Junction to a location north of Niddrie South Junction (saving on building a bridge to cross the Suburban Niddrie West Junction to the new Wanton Wells Junction alignment).

This junction opened with the Lothian Lines (North British Railway). Here three single track lines from the south, one from Niddrie West Junction, one from Niddrie South Junction and the other from Wanton Walls Junction [1st] met. These then ran north, as a single track, to South Leith Junction.
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Course of the Lothian Lines 'main' line seen looking north on the approach to Niddrie North Junction. There was no level crossing here as the street ...
David Panton 23/04/2020
A look north west along the course of the Lothian Lines 'main' line. Wanton Walls junction was behind me, Niddrie North was (and is) ahead. The tarred ...
David Panton 08/04/2020
The single line between Niddrie North and Wanton Walls Junction see image 1404 originally passed through open countryside. Nowadays, in addition ...
John Furnevel 15/07/2018
You really need a map to make sense of the confusion of
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David Panton 30/10/2010
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This junction is in the south east of Edinburgh. It controls the junction between the Edinburgh Waverley to Tweedbank line and the goods only line from Slateford and Haymarket. It is a busy location with freight, passenger trains and depot traffic, made difficult by the single track line north to Portobello.
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Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Millerhill Marshalling Yard (British Railways)
An early Sunday morning PW train returning to Millerhill South Sidings in October 2017 carrying residual spoil and spent ballast. The train is ...
John Furnevel 15/10/2017
A Tweedbank service clears the junction on the approach to Newcraighall on 5 June. The feathers are for the connection with the Sub at Niddrie West, ...
David Panton 05/06/2018
Grab shot from a Waverley - Newcraighall train crossing a bridge on the approach to Niddrie South Junction (100m to the left) on 9 August 2013. View ...
John Furnevel 09/08/2013
The 0911 Edinburgh - Tweedbank approaching Niddrie South Junction shortly after leaving Brunstane on 10 June 2018. On the left is the line to Niddrie ...
John Furnevel 10/06/2018
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Railway No. 11

This was a short re-alignment at the new Wanton Wells Junction of the existing Niddrie West Junction to Niddrie East Junction alignment of the [[Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway (running on the solum of the earlier Fisherrow branch of the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. Around here the Suburban turned south to meet the North British Railway main line at Niddrie East Junction. This was now altered to use Railway No 7 to run to Monktonhall Junction. The near Wanton Wells Junction alignment to Niddrie East Junction was abandoned.

This was the junction between the single track line from Niddrie North Junction [Lothian Lines] (originally Brunstane Park Junction) and an altered double track connection to the line west to Niddrie West Junction. Both then ran south east as a double track to Monktonhall Junction to meet the Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway) and a connection to the East Coast Main Line. ...

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I have to check a map every time this confusing area comes up. This overbridge is on the exact site of the original Wanton Walls Junction where the ...
David Panton 22/05/2021
Wanton Walls Junction was just off to the right here; the remains of the Lothians Lines bridge can be seen in the background. When this picture was ...
David Panton 26/05/1995
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Railway No. 12

This was a new connection to the west of the existing Monktonhall Junction (and the viaduct over the Esk). This gave an approach to the North British Railway from Wanton Walls Junction.

This junction has had several different layouts and refers to several slightly different locations. The original junction was for the Macmerry Branch (North British Railway) the present version is between the East Coast Main Line (former North British Railway) and line to Millerhill Marshalling Yard (British Railways).
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North British Railway
Macmerry Branch (North British Railway)
A Virgin Trains East Coast service to Kings Cross photographed six miles out from Waverley in the spring of 2018. The train has just come off the long ...
John Furnevel 03/05/2018
There are two bridges over the River Esk close to Monktonhall Junction. The bridge to the right is the original North British Railway bridge and the ...
Duncan Ross 22/05/2021
A northbound cement train photographed shortly after turning west off the ECML at Monktonhall Junction on 19 July 2018. GBRf 66736 is on the 1961 BR ...
John Furnevel 19/07/2018
View south east towards Monktonhall Junction in 1999, taken from the trackbed of the NB Lothian Lines route to Wanton Walls Junction. The ECML is on ...
Ewan Crawford //1999
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Railway No. 13

This was a new connection for the Lady Victoria Pit. It ran from north of Brewers Bridge down the east side of the Waverley Route to reversing spur south of the bridge. This was the pit's northern access, via the headshunts and a change of direction.

Lady Victoria Colliery was served by a large yard and sidings warranting their own signal box. A major expansion of the Newbattle Colliery led to a new connection and exchange sidings being laid out on the east side of the Waverley Route. The whole scheme was built on a grand scale and included the new village of Newtongrange, to the north. The pit was named for Lady Victoria Alexandrina, ...

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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Lady Victoria Colliery (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
The 0947 (Sunday) Tweedbank - Edinburgh approaching Newtongrange on 16 August 2019. The train is about to run below the B704 road bridge and past the ...
John Furnevel 16/08/2020
A Sunday morning service on the Borders Railway heading for Tweedbank on 22 May 2022. The train is approaching the B794 road bridge half a mile south ...
John Furnevel 22/05/2022
The trackbed of the Waverley Route as it was in March 2007, seen here looking north from the B704 road bridge towards the site of Newtongrange ...
John Furnevel 29/03/2007
The Borders Railway tracklaying train making steady progress through the cutting alongside the former Lady Victoria Colliery on a damp morning in ...
John Furnevel 17/10/2014
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This reversing spur was an isolated part of the Lothian Lines (North British Railway) built to allow northbound departures from the Lady Victoria Colliery.
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Railway No. 14

This was the southern approach to the Lady Victoria Pit. A connection from south of Brewers Bridge ran to join railway 13, forming a loop on the east side of the Waverley Route. Railway 13 and 14 allowing access to the pit from either direction.

Lady Victoria Colliery was served by a large yard and sidings warranting their own signal box. A major expansion of the Newbattle Colliery led to a new connection and exchange sidings being laid out on the east side of the Waverley Route. The whole scheme was built on a grand scale and included the new village of Newtongrange, to the north. The pit was named for Lady Victoria Alexandrina, ...

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Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)
Lady Victoria Colliery (Lothian Coal Co Ltd)
The 0947 (Sunday) Tweedbank - Edinburgh approaching Newtongrange on 16 August 2019. The train is about to run below the B704 road bridge and past the ...
John Furnevel 16/08/2020
A Sunday morning service on the Borders Railway heading for Tweedbank on 22 May 2022. The train is approaching the B794 road bridge half a mile south ...
John Furnevel 22/05/2022
The trackbed of the Waverley Route as it was in March 2007, seen here looking north from the B704 road bridge towards the site of Newtongrange ...
John Furnevel 29/03/2007
The Borders Railway tracklaying train making steady progress through the cutting alongside the former Lady Victoria Colliery on a damp morning in ...
John Furnevel 17/10/2014
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Additional sidings

The Act also authorised several sidings, including some additional sidings in Fife and at Granton to which the Caledonian Railway was to be granted facilities (repealed in 1916).