Newington Goods
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Newington Goods (1884-1969)Opened on the Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway.
Description
Newington Goods was west of Newington, Newington Stone Yard being a little further west. Both were on the north side of the line and served from the west.
It was briefly a passenger station in 1905, and again in 1907, for the Review of the Scottish Volunteers in Holyrood Park. The loading bank was used as a platform. For the review a temporary box opened on the platform at Newington [NBR], splitting Blackford Hill to Cameron Toll Signal Box.
Access to the yard was controlled by Blackford Hill signal box, the box opened with the line and closed in 1969.
The site of the goods yard is now housing.
Tags
GoodsExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
12/01/2020
| Nearby stations Newington [NBR] Blackford Hill St Leonards Morningside Road Duddingston Edinburgh Waverley Princes Street [1st] Lothian Road Princes Street [Tram] St Andrew Square [Tram] Edinburgh Princes Street West End - Princes Street [Tram] York Place [Tram] Haymarket Picardy Place [Tram] | Newington Stone Yard St Kathrine^s Works Royal Observatory Blackford Quarry Blackford Hill [Hill] St Leonards Tunnel Duddingston Brewery North British Brewery Lochrin Iron Works [1st] Pentland Brewery Tourist/other Blackford House Cameron Toll Signal Box Arthur^s Seat National Museum of Scotland Holyrood Park |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
