Archaeology Notes

Event ID 818149

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT36NW 216 32389 66673.

For footbridge see NT36NW 553.02

This station, just to the S of Eskbank South Bridge (NT36NW 215) is marked as Eskbank Station on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1854, sheet 7) and as Station on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1895, sheet viiiNW).

Information from RCAHMS (MD) 26 July 2001.

Eskbank was opened as Gallowshill on 21st June 1847 and retained this name until 1850. It was renamed Esbank and Dalkeith in 1954 after the Dalkeith terminus Station to the E was closed.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), May 2007