Warriston Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Warriston Junction (1846-1960)

Opened on the Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway.
Opened on the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway.

Description

This junction was between the lines from Edinburgh Canal Street to Granton and to North Leith. It was to the immediate north of the Warriston Viaduct.

Both lines were double track. The signal box was located on the west side of the junction.

To the south, on the west side, was Heriothill Goods, approached from the junction to the north over the viaduct. Beyond to the south, through Rodney Street Tunnel, was Scotland Street.

After closure to passengers, with the 1868 opening of the Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway), the junction became a single lead for the Granton line. The line south of Scotland Street, now a goods yard, closed.

The box closed in 1931.

The North Leith arm closed to Bonnington East Junction in 1960 and Scotland Street to Trinity Junction closed in 1967.

The location is now a foot/cyclepath.

To the north, on the Granton route, are the rather fine C listed bridges carrying the Warriston Gardens and Ferry Road overhead. (Both best viewed from the former trackbed.)

The two portions of Warriston Cemetery, bisected by the Leith branch, are linked by a passage passing under the line with sober but ornate stonework.

Tags

Junction footpath

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
04/10/2019



Chronology Dates

  /  /1844Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway
An Act is passed renaming the company the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway and giving assent to building branches from Trinity [1st] to Granton and from Warriston Junction to Leith [ELGR].
06/11/1967Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Railway
Scotland Street goods and Heriothill Goods to Trinity Junction (excluded) closed. Scotland Street goods depot is closed. (The Warriston Junction to Bonnington East Junction approach had closed in 1960.)