Eskbank railway station

Eskbank railway station (Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Easg,[1] code EKB) is a station serving the Eskbank area of the town of Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland. It reopened on the Borders Railway between Edinburgh and Tweedbank, just beyond Galashiels. There is a half-hourly service to Tweedbank. It is approximately a mile from Dalkeith town centre. Car parking space is available for 248 cars and also cycle storage space.[3]

This article is about the station in Scotland. For the preserved station in New South Wales, see Eskbank railway station, New South Wales.

Eskbank
Scottish Gaelic: Bruach Easg[1]
Location
Place	Eskbank, Dalkeith
Local authority	Midlothian
Coordinates	55.883°N 3.083°W / 55.883; -3.083
Grid reference	NT323660
Operations
Station code	EKB
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	1
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2015/16	0.128 million[note 1]
2016/17	0.275 million
2017/18	0.339 million
2018/19	0.367 million
History
July 1849	Opened as Gallowshall
October 1850	Renamed Eskbank & Dalkeith[2]
6 January 1969	Closed
6 September 2015	Reopened as Eskbank on New Site
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Eskbank from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station sits approximately 12.5 km from Waverley and 43.5 km from Tweedbank,[4] and lies close to the towns of Bonnyrigg and Dalkeith.

The original Eskbank and Dalkeith railway station was previously closed (along with the Waverley Route) in 1969. The new construction work was undertaken by BAM Nuttall. The new station, further south than the original, opened on 6 September 2015.[5]

Notes

1. The statistics only reflect six months of operation

References

1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. Disused Stations: Site Record, Eskbank and Dalkeith, updated 18 May 1997, accessed 22 October 2018
3. ScotRail, Eskbank, accessed 22 October 2018
4. "Eskbank". Transport Scotland. Archived from the original on 22 March 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
5. "Borders to Edinburgh railway opens as longest line in UK in a century". BBC News. 6 September 2015.

External links

• Borders Railway
• Eskbank Station (Transport Scotland)
• Video footage of Eskbank railway station

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Shawfair		Abellio ScotRail Borders Railway		Newtongrange
	Historical railways
Glenesk Line open, station closed		North British Railway Waverley Route		Dalhousie Line open, station closed
	Disused railways
Terminus		North British Railway Macmerry Branch		Smeaton Line and station closed
				Crossgatehall Halt Line and station closed
Bonnyrigg Line and station closed		North British Railway Peebles Railway		Terminus
Broomieknowe Line and station closed		North British Railway Esk Valley Railway		Terminus