Craiglockhart railway station

Craiglockhart Station
Craiglockhart Station
	Site of Craiglockhart Station (disused)
General information
Location	Craiglockhart, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh; Scotland
Coordinates	55°55′41″N 3°13′42″W / 55.9280°N 3.2284°W
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 June 1887	Opened
1 January 1917	Closed due to the wartime economy
1 February 1919	Re-opened
10 September 1962	Station closed to passengers

Craiglockhart Railway Station was a railway station in Scotland on the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway (SSJR). It was opened on 1 June 1887. Located on Colinton Road next to the Myreside Aqueduct of the Union Canal, it served the Craiglockhart area of Edinburgh, in the south-west of the city.

Craiglockhart station closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line although the line itself was retained for rail freight use. The route continues to be used for freight services to this day, so freight trains avoid Edinburgh's main stations of Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket, and occasionally diverted passenger trains also pass along this line.

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

Future

A local campaigning group, the Capital Rail Action Group (CRAG), is running a campaign for the SSJR line to be re-opened to passenger services, and proposes that it should be operated either as a commuter rail service or as a light rail system to form an extension of the forthcoming Edinburgh Tram Network.^[4] Following a petition submitted to the Scottish Parliament in 2007, the proposal was rejected in 2009 by transport planners due to anticipated cost.^[5]

References

^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 139
^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 139
^ Railway Passenger Stations by M.Quick page 139
^ "Reopening the South Sub" (PDF). Transform Scotland. March 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
^ "Public Petitions Committee Official Report". Scottish Parliament. 27 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.