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Merchiston Station

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Merchiston Station

Passenger Train

This view shows a passenger train at Merchiston Station.  I don't know the date of the photograph.  Passenger services ended on September 10, 1962.

Merchiston was the only station on the line between the Caledonian Railway's Princes Street Station (at the West End of Princes Street) and Slateford about two miles to the SW.

This line carried trains from Prince Street Station to:

-  Glasgow via Shotts.

-  Lanark.

-  Carlisle and the south.

Freight Train.

Here is a freight train passing through Merchiston Station in 1953

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Footpath and Cycle Track - 2006

Part of the former railway line has now been converted to a footpath and cycle track.  Here is what it looked like when I visited Merchiston in 2006.

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