Shawfair railway station
Shawfair is a railway station on the Borders Railway, which runs between Edinburgh Waverley and Tweedbank. The station, situated 5 miles 64 chains southeast of Edinburgh Waverley, serves the villages of Danderhall and Shawfair in Midlothian, Scotland.Photo: Nigel Thompson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, opened 2015
- Also known as: “SFI” and “Shawfair Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre and Newcraighall railway station.
Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre
Power station
Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre is a recycling and waste incineration facility at Millerhill in Midlothian, near Edinburgh in Scotland. Millerhill Recycling and Energy Recovery Centre is situated 2,500 feet northeast of Shawfair railway station.
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 1 mile north of Shawfair railway station.
Millerhill Marshalling Yard
Millerhill Marshalling Yard is a traction maintenance depot located in Millerhill, Scotland. The depot is situated on the Edinburgh and Hawick Railway and was near Millerhill station until it closed. The depot code is MH. Millerhill Marshalling Yard is situated 2,700 feet northeast of Shawfair railway station.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Danderhall and Newcraighall.
Danderhall
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Danderhall is a village in Midlothian, Scotland, just outside Edinburgh but inside the Edinburgh City Bypass.
Newcraighall
Village
Photo: The Voice of Hassocks, Public domain.
Newcraighall is a South-Eastern suburb of Edinburgh, Scotland. A former mining village, its prosperity was based on the Midlothian coalfields. The Newcraighall 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.
Niddrie
Suburb
Photo: Renata, Public domain.
Niddrie is a residential suburb in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated in the south-east of the city, south-west of the seaside area of Portobello, and west of Musselburgh in East Lothian near Fort Kinnaird retail park. Niddrie is situated 1½ miles northwest of Shawfair railway station.
Shawfair railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.9177° or 55° 55′ 4″ northLongitude
-3.09022° or 3° 5′ 25″ westInception
September 6th, 2015Operator
ScotRailNetwork
National RailOpen location code
9C7RWW95+3WOpenStreetMap ID
node 1974988736OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationWikidata ID
Q7491242
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Shawfair railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Shawfair”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة شاوفاير”
- French: “gare de Shawfair”
- French: “Shawfair”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd Shawfair”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Newton Cemetery and Millerhill Park.
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