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Edinburgh, 12 West Harbour Road, Railway Goods Shed
Goods Shed (19th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, 12 West Harbour Road, Railway Goods Shed
Classification Goods Shed (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Caledonian Railway; Granton Branch Line
Canmore ID 382670
Site Number NT27NW 659
NGR NT 23522 77152
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/382670
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Note (10 March 2025)
Following a request to review this site for listing an assessment was carried out by HES Designations, which found that the building does not meet the criteria of special architectural or historic interest. The decision was taken not to list the building (2025).
The former railway shed on West Harbour Road was located at the end of the Caledonian Railway’s Granton branch line from Lothian Road via Craigleith, which opened in 1861.
It is a rectangular plan, red-brick railway goods shed, built sometime between 1849 and 1870 and in use as a recycling depot since 1969. It comprises 14 bays, which are divided by brick buttresses, and there is a smaller outshot to the east containing offices. The interior of the building is open plan with an open timber truss roof and walls of exposed brick construction with some sections of whitewash.
The building has some historical interest as a surviving example of the railway infrastructure that supported Granton’s industrial activity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Information from HES Designations (R Lamb) 10 March 2025.
