Architecture Notes

Event ID 856165

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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The Object Name Book of the Ordnance Survey describes the railway station as 'A well constructed house on the Hawick Branch of the North British Railway erected by the company for offices and goods sheds'

Name Book 1852

Easkbank and Dalkeith railway station is situated in a deep cutting between the A768 Lasswade road and Bonnyrigg Road. The railway at this point runs N and S. The two stone built platforms, on the up (S going) and down (N going) lines, commence under the arched stone bridge carrying the A768 and runs due S for about 160m. The down platform retains the remains of the an asbestos roofed passenger shelter whilst the up side has a room under the road bridge and the remains of brick buildings. The whole area is heavily overgrown, but the trackbed is presently in use as a public path and cycle route.

The sandstone built offices and station house are at ground level in Station Road, the booking office formerly situated in the S wing, is now in use as flats following conversion in the mid-1980s.

About 30m S of the A768 road bridge is cast-iron lattice footbridge with timber walkway on E-W axis. The footbridge was to allow passengers to cross from one platform to another, the fenced concrete steps on both the up and down sides survive.

Road bridge carrying the A 768 also on an E-W axis is a single span with segmental arch additionally has a blocked off footpath at road level on the S side.

The station was built for the North British Railway by Thomas Grainger and John Miller, and was opened on 12 July 1847. Originally known as Eskbank, it was renamed as Dalkeith when the short Dalkeith branch was closed to passengers in 1942. The station was closed along with the rest of the Waverley Line in 1969.

The planned new station on the rebuilt railway to Tweedbank will be situated about 734m to the S.

Visited by RCAHMS (DE), 1 August 2006