Slateford Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Slateford Junction (1961-)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

This is the west end of a curve opened from Craiglockhart Junction in 1961 in connection with the development of Millerhill Marshalling Yard.

Slateford station is just to the west.

This is the second junction to have this name, the first was between the Caledonian Railway's main line to Edinburgh Princes Street and the link to Haymarket (the Edinburgh Station and Branches (Caledonian Railway)). The junctions co-existed between 1961 and 1966.

Slateford Junction signal box opened in 1960, also replacing the box for Slateford Junction [1st] and Slateford station signal box.

The new Slateford Junction box closed in 1981, replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.

Tags

Junction
09/08/2019




Chronology Dates

06/09/1965Caledonian Railway
Edinburgh Princes Street to Slateford Junction closed to passengers.
15/08/1966Caledonian Railway
Edinburgh Princes Street to Slateford Junction closed to goods.

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