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
Newstead railway station (Scotland) Newstead railway station (Scotland) Newstead railway station or Bradshaw railway station, as it was referred to in early editions of the timetable, was a railway station that served the village of Newstead, Melrose, Scotland, from 1849 to 1859 on the Waverley Line. The station opened in November 1849 by the North British Railway. The exact location of the station is not confirmed, but the station was believed to have been at either side of Haseldean Lane. The nearby goods yard may have been adjacent to the site of the station, but there is little information. The station disappeared from the