Old large-scale Ordnance Survey maps are also worth looking at - in Portobello Library, for instance.
Another good place to start would be the Edinburgh Room of Central Library in George IV Bridge - and an internet search (text and images) might be worth trying.
The station at Portobello consisted of an island platform with the main lines either side and Portobello goods yard to the north. Access was via an underpass from Christian Path to the north (you can still see the entrance) and via a pedestrian bridge from Station Brae (at the foot of which is still the station master's house). It was one of the busiest suburban stations in Edinburgh (along with Morningside and Gorgie).
The old Joppa station was off Joppa Terrace - it's still there - so isn't where Brunstane station now is (where there was never a station before).
LawrenceStatistics: Posted by Lawrence Marshall — 02 Jun 2004, 18:22
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