Brunstane railway station
Brunstane is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 3 miles 72 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburbs of Brunstane and Portobello in Edinburgh, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Brunstane, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Brunstane Railway Station”, “Brunstane Station”, and “BSU”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Newcraighall railway station and Bellfield.
Newcraighall railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newcraighall is a railway station on the Borders Railway in Scotland, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated close to the A1 road 4 miles 54 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburb of Newcraighall and other parts of south-eastern Edinburgh such as Craigmillar and Niddrie. Newcraighall railway station is situated 3,900 feet southeast of Brunstane railway station.
Bellfield
Community center
Photo: Action Porty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bellfield is a community centre located in what was previously Portobello Old Parish Church, a Georgian church of classical design located in Bellfield Street, Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. Bellfield is situated 4,000 feet northwest of Brunstane railway station.
Portobello High School
School
Photo: Norrie Adamson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portobello High School is a large secondary school in Portobello in the east of Edinburgh. With over 1400 pupils it is one of the largest state schools in Edinburgh and Scotland. Portobello High School is situated 2,600 feet west of Brunstane railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Brunstane and East Edinburgh.
Brunstane
Suburb
Brunstane is a northeastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies on the A1 and is served by Brunstane railway station on the Borders Railway. Brunstane partly consists of new housing, such as the Gilberstoun estate, and also contains the 1950s council housing schemes known as Magdalene and the Christians, which are south and north of Milton Road respectively.
East Edinburgh
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The east of Edinburgh is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, Leith, the coast, and the separate town of Musselburgh. It's a sprawl of residential and industrial districts, and the only two parts of interest to visitors are Portobello beach resort and the hamlet of Duddingston.
Joppa
Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Joppa is an eastern suburb of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland. It is bounded on the north by the coast of the Firth of Forth, on the west by Portobello of which it was a suburb when Portobello was a burgh, to the south by the open area south of Milton Road and to the east by Musselburgh in East Lothian.
Brunstane railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.94202° or 55° 56′ 31″ northLongitude
-3.10072° or 3° 6′ 3″ westElevation
118 feet (36 metres)Operator
ScotRailNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“BSU”Open location code
9C7RWVRX+RPOpenStreetMap ID
node 5240090773OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Scots—“Brunstane railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Brunstane”
- Dutch: “Station Brunstane”
- French: “Brunstane”
- French: “gare de Brunstane”
- Italian: “stazione di Brunstane”
- Japanese: “ブランステイン駅”
- Japanese: “ブルンステイン駅”
- Scots: “Brunstane railwey station”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brunstane railway station”. Photo: Garry Cornes, CC BY-SA 2.0.