Balgreen Halt railway station

Balgreen Halt
Balgreen Halt in 1962
Location
Place	Scotland
Area	Edinburgh
Coordinates	55°56′18″N 3°15′07″W / 55.9383°N 3.2520°WCoordinates: 55°56′18″N 3°15′07″W / 55.9383°N 3.2520°W
Operations
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Platforms	2
History
29 January 1934	Station opened[1]
1 January 1968	Station closed[1]
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Edinburgh Waverley - Corstorphine branch train in 1948

Balgreen Halt railway station served Balgreen in the Scottish city of Edinburgh. Services were provided by trains on the Corstorphine Branch.

The halt was close to Murrayfield Stadium.

History

The station was opened by the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping in 1934. The line passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948, to be then closed by the British Railways Board.

The site today

The stationmaster's house remains standing, in the site which has been landscaped as part of a garden.

References

Notes

1. Butt (1995)

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 0-9068-9999-0. OCLC 228266687.
• *RAILSCOT on Corstorphine Branch
• Balgreen Halt on navigable O. S. map Station marked at Saughton Hall
• Picture of the station