Piershill railway station

Piershill
Location
Place	Portobello, Edinburgh
Area	City of Edinburgh
Operations
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER Scottish Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
22 March 1868[1]	Opened
1 January 1917[1]	Closed
1 April 1919[1]	Reopened
7 September 1964[1]	Closed
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Coordinates: 55°57′25″N 3°09′05″W / 55.9569°N 3.1514°W / 55.9569; -3.1514 Piershill railway station was a railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a loop off the main line. It was opened on 22 March 1868.

Piershill station closed in 1964, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Musselburgh branch rail service as part of the British Railways rationalisation programme known as the Beeching Axe, although the line itself was retained for rail freight use. The route continues to be used for infrequent movement of waste from Powderhall to the East Coast Main Line.

Piershill was near the temporary Meadowbank Stadium station which was opened during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh in 1986; Meadowbank station closed shortly after the games finished.

A 1905 Railway Clearing House diagram of Edinburgh railways, with the SSJR (in blue along the bottom)

[ v t e ] Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway

East Coast Main Line Portobello (E&DR) Portobello East Junction Niddrie South Junction Piershill Newcraighall North British Railway to Leith East Coast Main Line Abbeyhill Waverley Line Innocent Railway Duddingston & Craigmillar Waverley Newington Blackford Hill Haymarket Tunnel Morningside Road Haymarket Craiglockhart Haymarket East Junction Myreside Aqueduct (Union Canal) Gorgie East Craiglockhart Junction Slateford Junction Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway     Caledonian Main Line

References

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 

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