Craiglockhart railway station

[ v; t; e; ] Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
	North British Railway
	to Leith
	Duddingston
	& Craigmillar
	Haymarket
	East Junction
	Myreside Aqueduct
	(Union Canal)
	Edinburgh and
	Glasgow Railway

Craiglockhart Station
Craiglockhart Station
	250px Site of Craiglockhart Station (disused)
Location
Place	Craiglockhart, 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

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Craiglockhart Railway Station was a railway station in Scotland on the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway (SSJR). It was opened on 1 December 1884. Located on Colinton Road next to the Myreside Aqueduct of the Union Canal, it served the Craiglockhart area of Edinburgh, in the Southside of the city.

Craiglockhart station closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line although the line itself was retained for rail freight use.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]