View from NW showing WNW and NNE fronts of NE station block which has been converted to public house and depot

Description View from NW showing WNW and NNE fronts of NE station block which has been converted to public house and depot

Date 10/11/1970

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

Catalogue Number SC 772272

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content North Leith Passenger Station (1846-1947), Edinburgh Leith (North) - ex Caledonian Railway. This shows the surviving station building from the north-west, with its frontage largely obscured by advertising hoardings. The building originally had an iron-framed train shed behind this Classical frontage, of which a fragment still survives, with details similar to those of the old Haymarket train shed. This station closed to passengers in 1947. Its traffic was severely affected by the development of improved tramways and buses. In 1970 the building was 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 H35/70/65/9

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/772272

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