Edinburgh Gateway

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Edinburgh Gateway (2016-)

Opened on the Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway).
Open on the Fife Circle.
Open on the Edinburgh to Perth.
Open on the Edinburgh to Dundee.

Description

This station is a train/tram interchange which also serves the Gyle shopping Centre. Trams run west to Edinburgh Airport.

The station was officially opened 09/12/2016 and trains commenced calling on 11/12/2016.

Tags

Station




Chronology Dates

  /03/2010Forth Bridge Connecting Lines (North British Railway)
Gogar interchange station promoted by Scottish Government as a cheap alternative to an Edinburgh Airport Rail Link. Cost expected to be £40M. (Opened as Edinburgh Gateway.)

News items

03/02/2021Edinburgh Gateway: ScotRail passengers face disruption after signalling fault near airport [The Herald]
15/08/2019Building a short stretch of track would give Edinburgh a third main rail hub [Evening News]
01/02/2018£41m Edinburgh railway station branded a flop as it fails to attract passengers [Herald]
27/08/2017White elephant on the tracks: New £41 million railway station gets a fraction of expected number of passengers [Sunday Post]
18/04/2017Dundee Railway Station Could Get £700K Revamp [Dundee Evening Telegraph]
11/12/2016New Edinburgh Gateway interchange opens in capital [BBC News]
29/09/2016Edinburgh's new tram-train interchange days away from completion [Scotsman]
12/06/2016Edinburgh Gateway railway station 'extensively damaged' [BBC News]

Books


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