Newcraighall railway station

Newcraighall railway station is a railway station serving the Newcraighall area of Edinburgh in Scotland. It lies on the Borders Railway. The station is a popular as a Park & Ride or Parkway Station for the Scottish Borders and Midlothian. The station was originally a terminus for Edinburgh Crossrail services when it opened in June 2002, but in 2015 the route was extended beyond Newcraighall towards Tweedbank, as part of the revival of the Waverley Route. Though the Waverley Route never had a station at this location during its lifetime, one did exist briefly at nearby Niddrie - this was opened in 1847 by the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, closed in October 1860 and then reopened again four years later prior to its final demise in January 1869.[2]

Newcraighall Scottish Gaelic: Talla na Creige Nuadh[1]
Newcraighall railway station (22 March 2014) when the station was a terminus before the Borders Line was built
Location	Newcraighall, Edinburgh Scotland
Coordinates	55.9330°N 3.0908°W
Grid reference	NT319716
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	NEW
Key dates
3 June 2002	Opened
Passengers
2015/16	0.224 million
2016/17	0.235 million
2017/18	0.279 million
2018/19	0.286 million
2019/20	0.266 million
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Service

Monday to Saturday daytimes there is a half-hourly service to Edinburgh and to Tweedbank, and an hourly evening and Sunday service.[3] Four weekday morning peak services run beyond Edinburgh to Glenrothes with Thornton via Kirkcaldy and a similar number run in the opposite direction in the evening. When the station was a terminus, many services ran through to/from the Fife Circle Line but this practice ended prior to the reopening of the full route to Tweedbank (as can be seen from the May 2013 and 2015 editions of the Great Britain National Rail timetable).

References

1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
2. "Disused Stations - Niddrie"Disused Stations Site Record; Retrieved 17 May 2016
3. GB eNRT May 2016 Edition, Table 243 (Network Rail)

External links

• Train times and station information for Newcraighall railway station from National Rail
• Newcraighall Railway Station