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Summary

Description

Probably David Bell. 2-platform through station opened 1890 to replace original 1847 Edinburgh and Northern Railway Station (see Notes). on curved site, single storey waiting room and office to S side. Brick with rusticated bull-faced ashlar facade, raked plinth and stone margins; timber fronted awning with corrugated-iron roof on 5 fluted cast-iron columns with decorative spandrels.

N ELEVATION: blocked wide-arched entrance at centre with window to right, door and further window beyond, 2 large openings to outer right; door to left of centre, 2 windows beyond and further door in penultimate bay to left with window to outer left.

Mainly 4-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stack, plain bargeboard and kingpost.

Statement of Special Interest

The through platforms were opened in 1890 on the Forth Bridge Line when the train ferry to Granton ceased to operate due to the opening of the Forth Rail Bridge. The original station immediately to the South which acted as a terminus and included Station House (see separate listing) was then closed. A good example of railway architecture and an integral part of the historically important East Coast line.

From the late 1840s rail travel from Edinburgh to Fife and beyond became possible with passengers being carried across the Firth of Forth by a ferry service operating from Granton to Burntisland. At the start of the 1870s it was decided that a rail bridge spanning the Firth of Forth should be built to provide a direct rail service from Edinburgh to the east of Scotland. It therefore became necessary to build a stretch of line from the bridge to Burntisland which would link the existing East Coast line to Edinburgh. Parliamentary authorisation for the construction of a line between Inverkeithing and Burntisland was passed in 1873 and 1882 and the seven mile stretch joining Inverkeithing and Burntisland was begun in 1887. The Forth Rail Bridge was opened on the 4 March 1890 and the new station opened later that year.

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