Newington (Edinburgh) railway station

Newington station
Site of the former Newington station
Location
Place	Newington, Edinburgh
Area	City of Edinburgh
Operations
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER Scottish Region of British Railways
Platforms	2
History
1 December 1884	Opened
10 September 1962	Closed
Disused railway stations in the United Kingdom
Closed railway stations in Britain A B C D–F G H–J K–L M–O P–R S T–V W–Z
UK Railways portal

Coordinates: 55°55′52″N 3°10′21″W / 55.93104°N 3.172503°W / 55.93104; -3.172503

Newington Railway Station was a railway station in 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Newington station closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line as part of the British Railways rationalisation programme known as the Beeching Axe, although the line itself was retained for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.

A 1905 Railway Clearing House diagram of Edinburgh railways, with the SSJR (in blue along the bottom)

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

[v · d · e]Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway

East Coast Main Line Portobello Portobello East Junction Brunstane (opened 2002) Niddrie South Junction Piershill Newcraighall Meadowbank Stadium East Coast Main Line to Leith Waverley Line Abbeyhill Innocent Railway Duddingston & Craigmillar Newington Waverley Blackford Hill Morningside Road Craiglockhart Haymarket Myreside Aqueduct Haymarket E Jcn (Union Canal) Gorgie East Craiglockhart Jcn Slateford Jcn Edin & Glasgow Railway Caledonian Main Line Glasgow via Falkirk Glasgow via Shotts North Clyde Line Glasgow via Carstairs To Aberdeen

References

1. ^ "Reopening the South Sub". Transform Scotland. March 2007. http://archive.transformscotland.org.uk/info/docs/2007-03-30_ESSR.pdf. Retrieved 8 January 2010. 
2. ^ "Public Petitions Committee Official Report". Scottish Parliament. 27 January 2009. http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/s3/committees/petitions/or-09/pu09-0202.htm#Col1450. Retrieved 8 January 2010.