St Leonards railway station (Scotland) St Leonards railway station (Scotland) St. Leonards railway station is a closed railway station on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway. It was Edinburgh's first railway station. The railway was built in 1831 to transport coal from the mining towns south of the city; and the following year opened passenger services. St. Leonards was the terminus for the south of the city and was named after the nearby region. Passenger services ceased in 1846, when the North British Railway opened a station at North Bridge which later developed into Waverley station. Services from Dalkeith were re-routed via Portobello. The station reopened
Harker railway station Harker railway station Harker railway station is a railway station that served the settlement of Harker, Cumbria, England, between 1861 and 1969 on the Waverley Line. The first station was opened on 29 October 1861 by the North British Railway to the north of on an unnamed minor road . It closed on 1 November 1929 but was used as an unadvertised halt for military personnel to the nearby airfield from 1936 until circa 1941. A new unadvertised station for RAF staff was opened on 1 March 1943 by the LNER on the other side of the bridge from the