RAILSCOT | Eastfield Platform

Eastfield Platform

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Eastfield Platform

Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

An island platform on the west side of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and within the triangle of lines formed by Cowlairs West Junction (to the west), Cowlairs West Junction (to the south) and Cowlairs East Junction (to the north). The platform was served by two loops on the west side of the main line directly west of Eastfield Shed.

Tags

Platform

Nearby stations Ashfield Cowlairs Springburn Possilpark and Parkhouse Possilpark (Private) Possil North Barnhill St Rollox [2nd] Bishopbriggs Glasgow (Townhead) Garngad Cowcaddens [Subway] Lochburn Buchanan Street St Georges Cross [Subway]	Cowlairs Panel Box Cowlairs West Junction Ironstone Pit Cowlairs North Junction Cowlairs East Junction Eastfield TMD Cowlairs Shed Eastfield Tip Eastfield Viaduct Ironstone Pit Possil Junction Cowlairs Carriage Sidings Cowlairs Works Clydesdale Iron Works [Possil Park] West of Scotland Signalling Centre
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Books

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

An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

Edinburgh ( Western New Town) 1877: Edinburgh Large Scale Sheet 34 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook (Auld Kirk Museum Publications)

Edinburgh To Inverkeithing.: including The Port Edgar, North Queensferry And Rosyth Dockyard Branches. (Scottish Main Lines.)

Edinburgh Waverley

Edinburgh Waverley Station Through Time

Edinburgh's Transport: The Early Years v. 1

Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Haymarket Motive Power Depot Edinburgh: A History of the Depot, Its Work and Locomotives, 1842-2010

Landranger (66) Edinburgh, Penicuik & North Berwick (OS Landranger Map)

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

On Either Side, 1939: The Train between London King's Cross & Edinburgh Waverley, Fort William, Inverness & Aberdeen (Old House)

Rails Around Glasgow

The Next Stop: Inverness to Edinburgh, station by station

This Magnificent Line (the story of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian