THE
PENICUIK RAILWAY
N.B.R. LNER BR
ABBEYHILL
PIERSHILL
-both replacing the earlier MEADOWBANK
“The Queen’s Station”
PORTOBELLO
The main Waverley route leaves the
main East Coast route
at Portobello East junction
MILLERHILL
ESKBANK
Peebles Railway -designer Thomas Bouch- leaves main
BONNYRIGG
ROSEWELL & HAWTHORNDEN
Penicuik Railway -designer Thomas Bouch-
leaves Peebles Railway at Hawthornden junction
AUCHENDINNY
ESKBRIDGE
PENICUIK
Penicuik train at Portobello
Rosewell and Hawthornden
station staff around 1950
link to www.penicuikwhatson.co.uk/old_photographs/
Bouch’s skewed
bowstring river bridge at Auchendinny station 1967
& 2006
Bridge under Harpers Brae, approaching Eskbridge
from the north Jim Neil
passing the back
of Burnside Cottages at Eskbridge –looking from the north
Brickwork Cottages and Eskbridge
station –seen from the north
Eskbridge
Station viewed from the south Jim Neil
Climbing up from Eskbridge
towards Penicuik beside the river gorge 2006
Esk Mills from the south, with
railway crossing the Esk and paper mill siding at
left foreground. At far right a locomotive toils up the bank
from Eskbridge.
Three images of the railway
at the Penicuik end 150, 100 and 50 years ago
link to www.penicuikwhatson.co.uk/old_photographs/
Approaching Penicuik station over Bouch’s
final Esk bridge at
journey’s end
Cowans’ Tipper Spring & Milkhall water supply? crosses
overhead to
One of Alex Cowan & Sons
Ltd’s two mill locos restored in North British
colours
Engine shed on approach to Penicuik station
awaiting demolition in 1973
Penicuik station awaits
demolition 1973 – mill lade crosses station approach
the
Penicuik Railway’s designer Thomas Bouch
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