East Fortune

Location type

Station

Name and dates

East Fortune (1849-1964)

Opened on the North British Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station. The main station building was on the eastbound platform. There were waiting rooms on each platform.

The goods yard was north of the line at the east end, approached from the east. The signal box was at the east end of the westbound platform opposite the goods yard.

The main building and a railway cottage remain standing.

A short branch ran to the East Fortune Hospital. This started from the east end of the station and ran westwards on the south side of the hospital buildings and north of East Fortune Airfield. The signal box was replaced in 1917, probably when the siding was put in.

The station closed to passengers in 1964 and the box closed in 1966.

Local

The East Fortune Airfield is to the south west.

National Museum of Flight

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
08/05/2019



Chronology Dates

  /  /2004National Museum of Flight
Decommissioned Concorde Golf-Bravo Oscar Alpha Alpha arrived at the National Museum of Flight (East Fortune Airfield) following a sea journey from Isleworth to Torness. With the arrival there is discussion of re-opening East Fortune station for the museum.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Drem to Edinburgh: Including Gullane, Haddington, Tranent, Musselburgh and Fisherrow Branches (Scottish Main Lines)

Edinburgh St. Margaret's: The Story of the 'Other' Edinburgh Depot of the North British Railway 1845-1967

Exploring Disused Railways in East Scotland

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1
LNER Wagons: Volume 3: Scottish Area: Ex North British and Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway Wagons
North British Railway in Northumberland, The

North British Railway, Vol. 1 (Standard Railway History)

North British Railway, Vol. 2 (Standard Railway History)

Signalling and Signal Boxes along the North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC Routes

South East Scotland (British Railways Past & Present)

The Castle and the Bear: A Brief History of the North British Railway

The North British Railway a History
The North British Railway, Volume 1, One,
The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Vanished Railways of West Lothian