Date: 08/09/2022

It's 60 years ago today since the last regular passenger train made its final journey on Edinburgh's South Suburban railway. The line - which runs in a circle from Waverley through Haymarket to Gorgie, Craiglockhart, Morningside, Blackford Hill, Newington, Duddingston/Craigmillar, Portobello, Piershill and Abbeyhill - is now only used for freight and diverted services, but there have been repeated calls for it to be reopened and a feasibility study on its future is included in the public transport plan being prepared by the current council administration. Now rail expert Robert Drysdale, who has been researching the history of the 'South Sub', has detailed the intriguing story of how one of Scotlands better-used lines, whose full potential was never exploited, came to be closed.

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Here's why a forgotten Edinburgh railway line closed 60 years ago today

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Its 60 years ago today since the last regular passenger train made its final journey on Edinburgh's South Suburban railway.

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DBS 66004 passes through the closed Craiglockhart Station on the Edinburgh 'sub' on 4 May 2015 with the 6S58 Lackenby - Dalzell 'slabs'.
Location: Craiglockhart
Company: Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
04/05/2015 Bill Roberton

The abandoned building on the westbound platform at Blackford Hill station (closed September 1962), photographed in the late spring of 1971.
Location: Blackford Hill
Company: Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
//1971 Bill Jamieson

6E45, the 08.07 Fort William-North Blyth alumina empties, glides through Morningside Road station on time - just before 16.30 - on 12th April. The train has just crested the Sub's summit a few hundred metres west of the station.
Location: Morningside Road
Company: Edinburgh, Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
12/04/2019 David Spaven

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