Date: 29/08/2022

As part of the wider regeneration of Meadowbank, the site of the former St Margarets Locomotive Railway Depot and Works is being excavated and preserved for archaeological posterity.

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Looking east from the London Road bridge as Azuma 801225, with the 13.30 from Edinburgh to Kings Cross, passes the recently excavated turntable pit at St Margarets on 27 August 2022.
Location: St Margarets Shed
Company: North British Railway
27/08/2022 Bill Roberton

A diesel discussion in progress around the turntable on the north side of St Margaret's shed in the mid 1960s.
Location: St Margarets Shed
Company: North British Railway
// Frank Spaven Collection (Courtesy David Spaven)

Scene on the up side of St Margarets shed, looking south across the ECML towards London Road on a Saturday morning in September 1958. Standing around the turntable is a North British 0-4-0 DH shunter, no D2723 of 1957, alongside a Reid ex-NBR N15 0-6-2T no 69152 of 1910. Even on a fine day it is questionable how much of a view was ever enjoyed by the nearby residents of London Road at that time, given the 200+ steam locomotives to whom St Margarets was home during much of the 1950s.
Location: St Margarets Shed
Company: North British Railway
06/09/1958 Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney)

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