Date: 05/04/2011

RAIL campaigners are hoping to revive plans for a station close to the Scottish Parliament with the publication of an election 'manifesto'. The Capital Rail Action Group (Crag) is calling on candidates to support its proposal to open a station at Abbeyhill.

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An early NBL 0-4-0 diesel hydraulic no D2705 has just turned off the ECML at Abbeyhill Junction in July 1963 and is seen running north through Abbeyhill station. One of a class first introduced in 1953, the locomotive was originally numbered 11705 by BR.
Location: Abbeyhill
Company: Easter Road Deviation (North British Railway)
18/07/1963 Colin Miller

Abbeyhill Junction is where the bidirectional lines from the east of Waverley Station through Calton tunnels (just one track per tunnel) resolve into the Up and Down ECML. In the middle distance the Abbeyhill Loop and line to Leith once also veered off to the left, but the connection was broken in the early 1990s. View east from Regent Road park on 12 February with the floodlights of Meadowbank Stadium on the horizon.
Location: Calton Tunnels
Company: North British Railway
12/02/2011 David Panton

The lines from Abbeyhill Junction turn north off the ECML with the surviving platforms of Abbeyhill station just round the curve. Grab shot from a passing train in March 2007.
Location: Abbeyhill Junction
Company: North British Railway
03/03/2007 John Furnevel