Corstorphine railway station

Corstorphine
Corstorphine
	Site of the former Corstorphine Station.
General information
Location	Station Road, Corstorphine, City of Edinburgh ; Scotland
Coordinates	55°56′29″N3°16′43″W / 55.941309°N 3.278732°W
Grid reference	NT202727
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 February 1902	station opened
1 January 1968	Station closed
Location
	Corstorphine Location within the City of Edinburgh council area

Last updated December 25, 2023

Corstorphine railway station served Corstorphine in Edinburgh. Services were provided by trains on the Corstorphine Branch. It was a terminus of a branch line, and there were sidings.

History

The station was opened by the North British Railway in 1902 and the line passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, to be then closed by the British Railways Board in 1968.^[1] The train journey from Corstorphine Station to Edinburgh Waverley Station took 11 minutes.

The site has since been built over by Mactaggart & Mickel, and is now occupied by the Paddockholm Estate.^[2] Station Road nearby is named for the former station.^[2]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Pinkhill		North British Railway Corstorphine Branch		Terminus

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References

Notes

↑ Quick, Michael (September 2020). "Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronolgy" (PDF). The Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 137. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
1 2 Bell, Raymond MacKean (2017). Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Leamington Books. ISBN 9780244644406.

Sources

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Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.

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[1] Quick, Michael (September 2020). "Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronolgy" (PDF). The Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 137. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.

[Bell-2] 1 2 Bell, Raymond MacKean (2017). Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Leamington Books. ISBN 9780244644406.

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