Disused railway lines and closed stations in Midlothian

41 miles of disused railway
27 closed stations
4 stations open today
15 named lost lines

Midlothian has 41 miles of disused railway and 27 closed stations, against 4 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 6.8 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Peebles Branch, with 9.3 miles of its route inside Midlothian.

See Midlothian’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 Midlothian break down as 31 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 8.0 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 1.5 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 Midlothian

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

Line	Miles in county
Peebles Branch	9.3
Hawthornden Junction to Penicuik Branch	4.0
Smeaton to Monktonhall Junction Line	2.6
Edinburgh, Loanhead, & Roslin Branch	2.5
Limeworks Railway	2.5
Niddrie North Junction to Bilston Glen Branch	1.7
Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway	1.5
Millerhill East Curve	1.5
Edinburgh to Carlisle Line	0.9
Whitehill Collieries	0.7
Loanhead to Glencorse Branch	0.7
Straiton Siding	0.7
Glenesk Junction to Dalkeith Branch	0.5
Bilston Glen Colliery Line	0.4
Esk Valley Junction to Polton Junction Branch	0.4

Closed railway stations in Midlothian

All 27 closed and former stations in Midlothian, 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 Midlothian

4 stations in Midlothian still have a train service. The busiest are Eskbank (286,350 a year), Newtongrange (149,962 a year), Gorebridge (121,090 a year) and Shawfair (72,472 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

Edinburgh, East Lothian 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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