kapps - yes the siding was filled in for sure. I know people who use this as a reason for arguing against planning permission to turn the Station Master's House and the land around into Cala Development. Filled in not well enough to be built on. I will continue browsing the sight for pictures of Balerno Station [I have a book of photos somewhere too]. I think the station might have been further down heading north than the house you can see from the road [now an office for agency nurses] necessitating a bit of a walk, but in the olden days people could walk.
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"ACTION GROUP CALLS FOR RE-OPENING OF EDINBURGH'S ABBEYHILL STATION"
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Posted 13 years ago #
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Indeed they could walk. My Great Aunt and her family were of Kirkhill in Penicuik and worked in the mills there. They had relatives in Juniper Green who worked in those mills. They took it turn about to walk through the Pentlands every Sunday to go to the other's house for tea. I'm not sure if they were church goers and walked instead of church or after it. Sorry, kirk. With a meenestrrrrrrr.
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I was going to post this one, but I bet it is the same one as you put on just there
http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/1_edin_t/1_edinburgh_transport_railways_-_balerno_station.htm
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Multitude of daffodils and a low wall:
I knew fine well about the Balerno branch and Ravelrig, but never spotted the remnants!
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Here's a video of what the turnback will look like:
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So basically there's no reason not to reinstate the station, as the trains will be stopping there anyway.
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"So basically there's no reason not to reinstate the station, as the trains will be stopping there anyway."
If only life was so simple.
Then it would be possible to reopen the South Sub, have more than one tram stop on Princes Street etc...
Posted 12 years ago # -
As often mentioned.
If only they made a route to Leith. Then they could park them down there and pick up some business.
Assume this an overspill arrangement for Waverley?
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Assume this an overspill arrangement for Waverley?
Quite.
I didn't realise that the trains are quite literally stopping at the old platforms (which were still there last time I checked).
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Do any of you enthusiasts of the rails have any material pertaining to the old station at Colinton.
If you carry on past the site of Colinton Station towards Juniper Green you cross a bridge just past the premises of a now defunct travel company. These were housed in a large building known locally as 'The Porage Factory'. (Scott's Porage Oats used to be milled here, I think.) If you look 50m downstream from the bridge you'll see another (disused and inaccessible) bridge. Both are former railway bridges - the one that that Water of Leith walkway goes over was the through line and the other carried a siding.
However, there's no obvious way to fit railway tracks in so that a siding could get from the line to the second bridge. The reason for this is that the siding left the line just after the gate to Spylaw Park and went right THROUGH the Porage Factory (in a huge opening long since sealed off), emerging out of the other side and across the car park to go over the bridge and carry trains to the vanished buildings on the far bank of the river.
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Posted 12 years ago #
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I have this at home -
Will look later.
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Immediately after Colinton, if heading west, there was a junction. The main line at this point stayed north of the river, curving off to the right. The spur off the junction forked to the left, ran straight ahead, crossed the river on a bridge and into a short dead-end siding for the West Mills. This was a grain and paper mill, I assume is what you are referring to as the "porage mill".
After the junction, the main line then crosses the river on a bridge, runs parallel and south of the river for a few hundred metres before crossing again to the north bank.
There were no further junctions or sidings or crossings of the river before Juniper Green station is reached.
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Wot k sez
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"I assume is what you are referring to as the "porage mill"."
No, it's the one the yellow line is drawn through at the edge of Spylaw Park.
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That's the one I described above? (West Mills)
P.S. key on that map is Blue = Caledonian Railway, Yellow = private sidings
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Thought West Mill was other side of river(?)
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1893, but probably the same source of maps as chdot's book:
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I think what AKen describes matches both maps as being West Mills. Siding branches off from "main line", runs across river and into mills. What your map from book confirms though is that it was a short terminus, into some sort of exchange building where it was then loaded onto a mill tramway. The line doesn't continue any further on and cross another bridge. Apart from where the railway crosses back over the river before Juniper Green, there are no other rail bridges, so anything else I think is more likely to have been associated with the mill - perhaps something to do with water flow and control?
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1914 OS 1:2500 survey
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OK
Scott's was at West Mills (south side)
http://www.scottsporage.co.uk/the-scotts-porage-story/our-heritage/#4
Then it was built on north side -
http://www.scottsporage.co.uk/the-scotts-porage-story/our-heritage/#6
on yellow line. This might have been West Mill (don't know).
In Globespan days it was called Colinton House.
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Okay jump forward to 1932 survey and West Mills has been extended across river to north bank, but still evident on south.
If you look at the above screenshot close up, the Globespan building is directly on site of the building straddling the rail line next to the "2602 | 597" notation on map. Assume this some sort of grain elevator.
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If you look at the above screenshot close up, the Globespan building is directly on site of the building straddling the rail line next to the "2602 | 597" notation on map. Assume this some sort of grain elevator.
The Globespan building is actually the same building that straddled the railway. There is a photo kicking around somewhere showing a train going through the ground floor. This link isn't it but has a good view of the site anyway.
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/151883/details/edinburgh+west+mill+road+west+mills/
The site seems to have been collectively known as West Mills, regardless of which bank. I guess this was to distinguish it from Spylaw Mill to the East.
Posted 12 years ago # -
From the Herald;
The proposed stations are;
Proposed routes
Station & Route
Royroyston, Cumbernauld line
Winchburgh, Edinburgh-Glasgow
Grangemouth, Grangemouth freight line
Bonnybridge, Edinburgh-Glasgow
Abronhill, Cumbernauld line
Abbeyhill, Edinburgh South Suburbun
Portobello, North Berwick Line
Woodilee, Edinburgh-Glasgow
Westerhill, Edinburgh-Glasgow
Bannockburn, Dunblane line
Cambus, Alloa lineAbbeyhill of course has never been on the "South Suburban" [sic] line. But we'll let them off with that.
Posted 12 years ago # -
"Abbeyhill of course has never been on the "South Suburban" [sic] line. But we'll let them off with that."
Think the notion is that if (I used to say when) South Sub reopens, trains would be routed via Abbeyhill to keep main line clear.
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