Craiglockhart Station
Site of Craiglockhart Station (disused)
General information
Location	Craiglockhart,Edinburgh,City of Edinburgh Scotland
Coordinates	55°55′41″N3°13′42″W / 55.9280°N 3.2284°W /55.9280; -3.2284
Platforms	2
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Edinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1 June 1887[1]	Opened
1 January 1917[2]	Closed due to the wartime economy
1 February 1919[3]	Re-opened
10 September 1962	Station closed to passengers
Location

Craiglockhart Railway Station was arailway station inScotland on theEdinburgh Suburban and Southside Junction Railway (SSJR). It was opened on 1 June 1887. Located on Colinton Road next to the Myreside Aqueduct of theUnion Canal, it served theCraiglockhart area of Edinburgh, in the south-west of the city.

Craiglockhart station closed in 1962, when passenger rail services were withdrawn from the Edinburgh Suburban line although the line itself was retained forrail freight use. The route continues to be used for freight services to this day, so freight trains avoid Edinburgh's main stations ofEdinburgh Waverley andHaymarket, and occasionally diverted passenger trains also pass along this line.

A localcampaigning group, the Capital Rail Action Group (CRAG), is running a campaign for the SSJR line to be re-opened to passenger services, and proposes that it should be operated either as acommuter rail service or as alight rail system to form an extension of the forthcomingEdinburgh Tram Network.^[4] Following a petition submitted to theScottish Parliament in 2007, the proposal was rejected in 2009 by transport planners due to anticipated cost.^[5]

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