View from NE showing NNE and ESE fronts of goods shed that has been converted to depot

Description View from NE showing NNE and ESE fronts of goods shed that has been converted to depot

Date 10/11/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 772271

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content North Leith Passenger Station (1846-1947), Edinburgh Leith (North) - ex Caledonian Railway. This shows the Commercial Street frontage of the goods station. The broad arched bay is the goods shed, and the office is to the left. As can be seen, the complex was used as a paper and board warehouse in 1970. The goods service on this line lasted much longer than the passenger service, and did not end until the 1960s, when rail freight services were drastically reduced as part of the Beeching cuts. This building has since been demolished. 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. A goods station was later added on a site to the west, also fronting Commercial Street. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference H35/70/65/8

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap