Newcraighall railway station

Newcraighall is a railway station on the Borders Railway in Scotland, which runs between and . The station, situated close to the A1 road 4 miles 54 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburb of and other parts of south-eastern such as and .
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  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: railway station in Newcraighall, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “NEW”, “Newcraighall Railway Station”, and “Newcraighall Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Musselburgh railway station and Brunstane railway station.

Railway station
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serves the town of , in , Scotland. It was opened by British Rail in 1988; it lies on the East Coast Main Line, 5+1⁄4 miles east of , and the North Berwick Line. is situated 3,700 feet east of Newcraighall railway station.

Railway station
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Brunstane is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between and . The station, situated 3 miles 72 chains south-east of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the suburbs of and in , Scotland. is situated 3,900 feet northwest of Newcraighall railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shawfair is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between and . The station, situated 5 miles 64 chains southeast of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the villages of and Shawfair in , Scotland. is situated 1 mile south of Newcraighall railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newcraighall and East Edinburgh.

Village
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is a South-Eastern suburb of , Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the coalfields. The pit was known as 'Klondyke' and closed in the 1960s, work transferring to nearby Bilston Glen and in particular the last-to-close Monktonhall pit.

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The east of is a collection of neighbourhoods bounded by Holyrood Park, , the coast, and the separate town of . 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.

Suburb
is a northeastern suburb of , . It lies on the A1 and is served by on the Borders Railway. 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.

Newcraighall railway station

Latitude
55.93298° or 55° 55′ 59″ north
Longitude
-3.09067° or 3° 5′ 26″ west
Elevation
115 feet (35 metres)
Operator
ScotRail
Network
National Rail
Abbreviation
“NEW”
Open location code
9C7RWWM5+5P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21568010
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Geo­Names ID
6953224
Wiki­data ID
Q2669021
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Urdu—“Newcraighall railway station” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “station Newcraighall”
  • Dutch: “Station Newcraighall”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محطة نيوكرايجال”
  • French: “gare de Newcraighall”
  • French: “Newcraighall”
  • Italian: “stazione di Newcraighall”
  • Japanese: “ニュークレイグホール駅”
  • Scots: “Newcraighauch railwey station”
  • Urdu: “نیو کریگ ہال ریلوے اسٹیشن”

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