A scan of a poor quality slide, dating from early 1979, looking towards Edinburgh from the footbridge at Portobello East. The train in the picture is 17.10 Edinburgh - Newcastle local, worked by a Deltic, and to the right is Portobello Freightliner Terminal which opened in 1968 and closed in 1985. A Class 37 can be seen awaiting departure with what from memory was a working to Glasgow.
Location: Portobello Freightliner Terminal
Original line: North British Railway
Photographer: John Clark
Contact photographer: John Clark
Date: 1979
Image number: 92945
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