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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 871023
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/871023
NT27NW 571.01 20548 75520
Goods yard served from a separate branch from the main railway station. Goods yard at lower level consisting of a goods shed, coal siding, loading banks (centred at NT20544 75553), weighbridge (NT20519 75507) and two cranes (NT20539 75535 and NT20598 75555).
D Evans, 1984
Part of the site of the goods shed is now occupied by a Tesco store, the rest by the store car park with the former goods yard also rebuilt as the remainder of the store car park.
The goods shed and yard is not depicted on the 1st Edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire, 1853, sheet 2), but is depicted as roofed on the 1st Edition 25-inch map.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), August 2009
