View from WNW showing entrance to former train shed with WNW and SSW fronts of N block in foreground

Description View from WNW showing entrance to former train shed with WNW and SSW fronts of N block in foreground

Date 10/11/1970

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 771334

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content North Leith Passenger Station (1846-1947), Edinburgh Leith (North) - ex LNER This shows the rear of the building as it existed in 1970. In the centre is the truncated train shed built to cover the single original platform. The wall on the right supported one side of the roof, the other being carried on a series of cast-iron columns, like the survivor seen here. This station closed to passengers in 1947. Its passenger traffic was severely affected by the development of improved tramways and buses. In 1970 the building was used as a coppersmiths' workshop. It is now a youth club. This station was opened in 1846 by the Edinburgh, Leith & Granton Railway. In 1952, it was renamed Leith Citadel Goods Station. It was sited to serve the East and West Old Docks, with a goods line crossing Commercial Street, and a swing bridge over the channel between the docks to sidings on the quays. It was designed by Grainger & Miller. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/65/4

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/771334

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