Disused railway lines and closed stations in East Lothian

41 miles of disused railway
22 closed stations
8 stations open today
16 named lost lines

East Lothian has 41 miles of disused railway and 22 closed stations, against 8 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 2.8 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Smeaton to Macmerry Branch, with 6.5 miles of its route inside East Lothian.

See East Lothian’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 41 miles of lost railway in East Lothian break down as 32 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 5.5 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 2.7 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in East Lothian

16 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside East Lothian; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Smeaton to Macmerry Branch	6.5
Ormiston to Gifford Line	4.7
Aberlady Junction to Gullane Branch	2.9
Prestonlinks Colliery Siding	2.5
Longniddry Junction to Haddington Branch	2.1
Smeaton to Monktonhall Junction Line	1.7
Elphinston Colliery Siding	1.5
Prestonpans to Tranent Branch	1.3
Musselburgh Branch	1.1
Ormiston Colliery Siding	1.1
Millerhill Branch	1.0
Bellyford Colliery	0.7
Carberry Colliery Siding	0.7
Wallyford Colliery	0.6
Blindwells Opencast	0.4
Fisherrow Branch	0.3

Closed railway stations in East Lothian

All 22 closed and former stations in East Lothian, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in East Lothian

8 stations in East Lothian still have a train service. The busiest are North Berwick (566,242 a year), Musselburgh (461,092 a year), Dunbar (416,356 a year), Wallyford (349,262 a year) and Prestonpans (257,514 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Midlothian, Edinburgh, Fife and Scottish Borders.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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