Exhibition Junction [CR]

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Exhibition Junction [CR] (1890-1935)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Where: City of Edinburgh, Scotland
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

This junction was at the east end of a loop which started at Slateford Junction [1st]. The loop was on the south side of the line and was for Exhibition [CR] station. This was the genesis of Slateford Yard.

There was a signal box on the south side of the line.

The box was closed when taken over by Slateford Junction [1st] box in 1935.

The junction was directly west of where the approach to Edinburgh Princes Street crossed over the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway.

It is where the line was cut back to in 1966 after closure of Princes Street in 1965 and Morrison Street Goods in 1966.

Tags

Junction

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Caledonian Dunalastairs and Associated Classes (Locomotive Monograph)

Caledonian in LMS Days (Railways in Retrospect)

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Carriages

Caledonian Railway Livery: The True Line Elegance and Style

Caledonian Railway Wagons & Non-Passenger Coaching Stock

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

Carlisle to Hawick: The Waverley Route (Scml)

Signalling the Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway 'jumbos' the 18in. X 26in. 0-6-0s

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian