Blackford Hill 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

Blackford Hill
Blackford Hill
	Blackford Hill Station in 1962
Location
Place	Newington, 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
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Blackford Hill railway station was a railway station in the Blackford area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It was located at the foot of Blackford Hill on the Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway (ESSJR). It was opened on 1 December 1884.

Blackford Hill station closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line although the line itself was retained for rail freight use.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