Wallyford

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Wallyford (1994-)

Station code: WAF National Rail ScotRail
Where: East Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the North British Railway.
Open on the North Berwick Line.
Open on the Edinburgh to Berwick.

Description

This is a minimal modern two platform station but with a large car park. The station is east of the original Wallyford [1st] station, which was very short lived.

To the west was the junction and exchange sidings for Wallyford Colliery Pit No 1, Wallyford Brick Works and Wallyford Colliery Pit No 3, to the south. The signal box 'Wallyford' was located on the north side of the line at the junction. It closed in 1961.

To the east was Morrison's Haven Junction, for the branch north to Prestongrange Colliery and Morrison's Haven.

A little further to the east is the Dolphingstone Deviation (Railtrack).

The line between Edinburgh Waverley, North Berwick and Dunbar is supported and promoted by the East Lothian Community Rail Partnership .

Tags

Station
11/06/2019


Chronology Dates

  /06/1994North British Railway
Wallyford station opened.
  /07/2008North British Railway
320 additional parking spaces added at Wallyford station.

News items

30/10/2023New timetable delivers electric trains between Barrhead and Glasgow [ScotRail]
24/06/2022East Lothian man saw lorry driver 'crawl through windscreen' to flee rail crash [Edinburgh Live]
24/06/2022Wallyford: Video shows the moment that a lorry is lifted off the line after crashing through a wall onto the train tracks in East Lothian [Scotsman]
23/06/2022Trains disrupted after lorry crashes onto tracks in East Lothian [BBC News]
26/06/2019Looking back: 25 years since Wallyford Railway Station opened [East Lothian Courier]
25/07/2014Commuters crammed ‘like sardines’ due to games [Evening News]
04/01/2003Dolphingstone diversion to open, Prestonpans station to be altered
12/07/2002Closure of ECML for repairs

Books


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

Drem to Edinburgh: Including Gullane, Haddington, Tranent, Musselburgh and Fisherrow Branches (Scottish Main Lines)

Edinburgh St. Margaret's: The Story of the 'Other' Edinburgh Depot of the North British Railway 1845-1967

Exploring Disused Railways in East Scotland

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1
LNER Wagons: Volume 3: Scottish Area: Ex North British and Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway Wagons
North British Railway in Northumberland, The

North British Railway, Vol. 1 (Standard Railway History)

North British Railway, Vol. 2 (Standard Railway History)

Signalling and Signal Boxes along the North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC Routes

South East Scotland (British Railways Past & Present)

The Castle and the Bear: A Brief History of the North British Railway

The North British Railway a History
The North British Railway, Volume 1, One,
The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Vanished Railways of West Lothian