v t e Macmerry and Gifford Lines
Legend
Garvald ( authorised extension ) Gifford Humbie Saltoun Pencaitland Macmerry Winton Ormiston Crossgatehall Halt East Coast Main Line toDunbar Inveresk Smeaton East Coast Main Line toEdinburgh   Edinburgh & Dalkeith Rly (part ofWaverley Route)

TheGifford and Garvald Railway was a 9.25-mile-long (14.89 km) single-track branch railway line inEast Lothian,Scotland, that ran from a junction west ofOrmiston on theMacmerry Branch toGifford via three intermediate stations,Pencaitland,Saltoun, andHumbie.

Gifford and Garvald Railway Act 1891
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to incorporate the Gifford and Garvald Railway Company and to empower them to construct a Railway in the County of Haddington and for other purposes.
Citation	54 & 55 Vict. c. lxxxv
Dates
Royal assent	3 July 1891
Text of statute as originally enacted

Gifford and Garvald Railway Act 1893
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to enable the Gifford and Garvald Railway Company to construct a Deviation Railway and for other purposes.
Citation	56 & 57 Vict. c. cc
Dates
Royal assent	24 August 1893
Text of statute as originally enacted

The line was proposed in November 1890 and the company was authorised by theGifford and Garvald Railway Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. lxxxv) on 3 July 1891 to construct a line of 12 miles and 200 yards. Only 9.25 miles of line was completed and opened on 14 October 1901.^[1] Run by theNorth British Railway from opening the line remained independent until 1923 when it became part of theLondon and North Eastern Railway. AtPencaitland, the line served theGlenkinchie distillery, and continued onward to Gifford where it terminated next to what is now the Gifford Community Woodland. The extension of the line toGarvald was never completed.

The line closed to passengers on 3 April 1933 when theMacmerry Branch withdrew its services. After a bridge collapse in August 1948 the section from Gifford to Humbie closed but the remaining line stayed open. On 2 May 1960 the line past Humbie closed to freight and the remaining line on 25 April 1965.

The Smeaton railway branches of the Lothians

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• "Line on Gifford On-Line".
• "Map of route".
• "RAILSCOT on Gifford and Garvald Railway". Retrieved28 January 2012.
• "RAILSCOT on MacMerry Branch (NBR)". Retrieved28 January 2012.
• "Gifford and Garvald Railway on a 1945 OS Map". Retrieved28 January 2012.

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