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Latitude: 55.9764 / 55°58'34"N
Longitude: -3.1967 / 3°11'47"W
OS Eastings: 325419
OS Northings: 676579
OS Grid: NT254765
Mapcode National: GBR 8M5.Z3
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.V1YR
Plus Code: 9C7RXRG3+H8
Entry Name: Newhaven Station, Craighall Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 85 Craighall Road, Station, Including Bridge
Listing Date: 17 October 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390265
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43689
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Newhaven railway station
ID on this website: 200390265
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Forth
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Railway station Architectural structure
Circa 1878. Converted single-storey, rectangular-plan 9-bay timber station running N-S along Craighall Road. Timber boarding to all elevations with overhanging eaves. Projecting timber balcony and balustrade to rear on single steel columns astride original rail tracks; workshop below. Steel parapet to front.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: timber boarded doors in bays to outer left and right. Small single windows to right of centre; single windows in remaining bays.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: 11-bay. Cat-slide roof to single storey projection in bay to outer left. Double opening in bay to outer right. Variety of single windows and doors in remaining bays. Boarded timber balustrade along projecting balcony; double warren steel girders beneath. Single columns to ground below rest on brick base course in bays to outer left and right; double columns beneath inner bays. Original opening for rail track blocked to form covered workshop beneath shed.
N AND S (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: blank timber boarded panelling to both.
Variety of 2 and 4-pane timber sash and case windows to both elevations. Grey slate roof in diminishing courses; overhanging eaves. Stepped brick flue to W elevation in penultimate bay to right.
Opened on 1st January 1879, Newhaven Station (as it was originally known) serviced the Edinburgh, Leith and Granton branches - all part of the Caledonian Line (see Ordnance Survey map, 1876). Closed on 30th April 1962, it was subsequently converted into a joiner?s shop and now stands empty.
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