Railway stations in Portobello / Joppa

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[wangi]

Well the current Brunstane station is on the same site as the last Joppa station...

Some maps...

http://www.old-maps.co.uk/oldmaps/servl ... 787550.png
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/oldmaps/servl ... 727572.png
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cj.tolley/rjd ... 7-1920.jpg
http://www.railscot.co.uk/Edinburgh_and ... /frame.htm
http://www.railscot.co.uk/North_British ... /frame.htm
http://www.sbe.hw.ac.uk/edmetro/history.html

Did have more, but that's the ones I can remember...

[Lawrence Marshall]

There are quite a view old photos of Portobello station around - some published, some not. A PAS AGM which I helped to organise a few years' back was shown a good number of photos of the actual demolition of the station - and I saw an original "Portobello" totem station name sign on display at the National Railway Museum Railfest 2004 last weekend (I asked the price as it was with others for sale but I was told it was part of a private collection - it would probably have set me back around £500).
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).

Lawrence

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[lodgehead]

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Joppa Station (the one on the East Coast Mainline, not the one where the current Brunstane station is) in 1955:


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