Pinkhill railway station

Pinkhill
The site of the former Pinkhill Station.
General information
Location	Corstorphine, City of Edinburgh Scotland
Coordinates	55.9417°N 3.2643°W / 55.9417; -3.2643
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 1917	Station closed
1 February 1919	Station opened
1 January 1968	Station closed (passengers)
5 February 1968	Station closed (freight)
Location Pinkhill Location within the City of Edinburgh council area

Pinkhill railway station was a railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland. It served Edinburgh Zoo, east Corstorphine and Murrayfield. Services were provided by trains on the Corstorphine Branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

History

Platforms beside the trackbed which is now a cycle path. The former ticket office sits above the bridge

The station was opened by the North British Railway and the line passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. It was closed by the British Railways Board in 1968.^[1]

The disused track bed is now a cycle and footpath, forming part of the City of Edinburgh Council's Quiet Route 9.^[2] The platforms and ticket office of the former station remain in place.^[3]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Balgreen Halt		North British Railway Corstorphine Branch		Corstorphine

References

Notes

1. Quick, Michael (September 2020). "Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: A Chronolgy" (PDF). The Railway and Canal Historical Society. p. 342. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 July 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
2. "Quiet Route Map North West". City of Edinburgh Council. Retrieved 2 April 2021.
3. Bell, Raymond MacKean (2017). Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Leamington Books. ISBN 9780244644406.

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (October 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 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• 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.