Hardengreen Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Hardengreen Junction (1855-1967)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.
Opened on the Peebles Railway.
Opened on the Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway).

Description

This was the junction between the re-gauged Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway and the Peebles Railway. Hardengreen Yard was developed here and the Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway) later also reached this location.

The location was to the south of Eskbank and Dalkeith and north of today's Eskbank station.

The first box was an early example, opening in 1868 and was on the east side of the junction between the main line an Peebles line. It was replaced. The later box was on the west side.

The Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway) to Smeaton closed as a through route in 1934.

Hardengreen South Signal Box, on the southern main line approach and on the west side, closed in 1934 when taken over by the junction box.

The northern portion of the Peebles Railway remained open to serve the Penicuik Railway until 1967.

The Waverley route closed in 1969. It re-opened as the Borders Railway in 2015.

Tags

Junction

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67




Chronology Dates

04/07/1855Peebles Railway
Opened from Hardengreen Junction (Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway) to Peebles [1st]. Stations opened at; Hawthornden, Roslin [1st], Penicuik [1st], Leadburn, Eddleston and Peebles [1st].
03/06/1862Macmerry Branch (North British Railway)
Monktonhall Junction [1st] to Hardengreen Junction authorised with branch to Macmerry.
31/07/1870Macmerry Branch (North British Railway)
Connection from Hardengreen Junction (Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway) to Smeaton (Macmerry Branch) opened.
09/05/1872Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
Hardengreen Junction to Hawthornden Junction (on the Peebles Railway) doubled.
  /  /1913Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway)
Hardengreen Junction to Smeaton mothballed.
  /  /1934Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway
Hardengreen Junction to Smeaton lifted, except for a short stub at Hardengreen Junction.
  /  /1934Dalkeith Branch (North British Railway)
Smeaton to Hardengreen Junction lifted.
27/03/1967Peebles Railway
Line closed from Hawthornden Junction to Hardengreen Junction (excluded). The route was latterly used by freight trains for access to the Penicuik Railway.

Books


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

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

Border Railway Portfolio

Borders Railway Rambles

Branches & Byways: Southwest Scotland and the Border Counties

Forgotten Railways: Scotland

Galashiels to Edinburgh: Including the Lauder and Dalkeith Branches - the Waverley Route (Scml)

Lost Railways of the Scottish Borders

Origins of the Scottish Railway System 1722-1844

Peebles Railways

Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong

The Railways of Peebles (Through Time)

Waverley: Portrait of a Famous Route