Newington railway station (Edinburgh)

Newington station
Newington station
	Site of the former Newington station
General information
Location	City of Edinburgh
Owned by	LNER
Managed by	North British Railway
Platforms	2
Key dates
1 December 1884	Opened
10 September 1962	Closed

55°55′52″N 3°10′22″W / 55.9310°N 3.1727°W / 55.9310; -3.1727

Newington Railway Station was a railway station in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway. It served the southern Edinburgh suburb of Newington and the station site is still visible from Craigmillar Park.

Newington station closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line although the line itself was retained for rail freight use. The route continues to be used for freight services to this day, so freight trains avoid Edinburgh's main stations of Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket, and occasionally diverted passenger trains also pass along this line.

Future

A local campaigning group, the Capital Rail Action Group (CRAG), is running a campaign for the SSJR line to be re-opened to passenger services, and proposes that it should be operated either as a commuter rail service or as a light rail system to form an extension of the forthcoming Edinburgh Tram Network.^[1] Following a petition submitted to the Scottish Parliament in 2007, the proposal was rejected in 2009 by transport planners due to anticipated cost.^[2]

Preceding station	Historical railways			Following station
Blackford Hill		Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway North British Railway		Duddingston & Craigmillar

Edinburgh Suburban
and Southside Junction Railway

Legend

East Coast Main Line

Portobello (NBR)

Portobello East Junction

Brunstane

Niddrie South Junction

Newcraighall

North British Railway

to Leith

East Coast Main Line

Waverley Route

(Borders Railway)

Haymarket

East Junction

Myreside Aqueduct

(Union Canal)

Gorgie East

Craiglockhart Junction

Slateford Junction

Edinburgh and

Glasgow Railway

Caledonian Main Line

References

^ "Reopening the South Sub" (PDF). Transform Scotland. March 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
^ "Public Petitions Committee Official Report". Scottish Parliament. 27 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.

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[reopen-doc-1] "Reopening the South Sub" (PDF). Transform Scotland. March 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.

[cttee270109-2] "Public Petitions Committee Official Report". Scottish Parliament. 27 January 2009. Archived from the original on 5 June 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2010.

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