The closed station of Duddingston on the Edinburgh Suburban line is the location for 56104 passing through the platforms. All is not what it seems as the loco is dead and being towed by a class 60.
60082 comes round the corner in the early morning at Duddingston with an empty MGR rake bound for Ravenstruther. It is running as 6C12 0805 off Millerhill.
At Millerhill itself and 66033 gets away with 6S31 0639 Tyne Yard to Mossend empty MGR working consisting of hooded HAA hoppers. A crew change probably took place here.
An arrival at Millerhill passes below the A1 with 66044 in charge of 7B64 0630 from Falkland Yard to Cockenzie power station loaded MGR.
This caught me out as I wasn't expecting it and couldn't identify it. 56073 leaves Millerhill with four Parcel Force piggyback road trailers in tow.
56053 running light passes 60053 which is leaving Millerhill Yard with 6O73 0055 off Tyne Yard to Ravenstruther. The train would have recessed at Millerhill for the night.
After an hour or so watching the coal trains come and go I was about to leave when I was rewarded with this sight. Royal Scotsman liveried 37428 brings the empty Royal Scotsman stock towards Millerhill for servicing. It is running as 5H98 ECS from the Waverley.
Out on the ECML just by the village of Inveresk and EWS liveried 56059 heads back to Powderhall with the empty binliner, 6B44 1053 from Oxwellmains to Powderhall.
The North Berwick branch was worked at the time by elderly class 305 EMU's seeing out their days shuttling back and forth. 305508 heads for Edinburgh with a class 2 local 2Y09 1020 from North Berwick.
An unknown class 91 electric loco and its train has just a short distance to run before Edinburgh is reached. The working is 1S12 0615 off London Kings Cross to Edinburgh.
An up GNER working speeds by led by an unidentified DVT, its train is 1E09 1000 from Glasgow Central to Kings Cross.
60042 comes round the sharp curve by Old Craighall with 6O72 0742 off Tyne Yard for Ravenstruther coal loading facility just north of Carstairs.
Another empty MGR working leaves the ECML at Monktonhall Junction to run round the large "S" bend into the south end of Millerhill Yard passing by Old Craighall. This is 56037 working 6B66 1232 from nearby Cockenzie power station back to Millerhill Yard.
Back on the Edinburgh Suburban line proper at Niddrie, LoadHaul liveried 56107 passes by on the embankment with 6D38 1227 Oxwellmains to Viewpark loaded cement tanks.
This is the railway equivilent of two ships passing in the daylight! Tugs 60063 and 60042 pass at Niddrie, 063 is working the early running 6E30 1329 Dalzell to Lackenby empty steel flats. While 042 powers 6C16 1245 Millerhill to Ravenstruther empty MGR hoppers.
This is another "I was just about to leave when...." shot, 37688 in EWS house colours runs towards Millerhill light engine. I took the shot and then left for Newington.
This was the location for Newington station on the Sub. It had an island platform, now long removed. 60053 comes by with 7B56 1329 Ravenstruther to Millerhill loaded coal train. The shot was taken at the gate which led down to the platform.
Another long closed station on the Sub, in fact they are ALL closed, is Morningside in the POSH side of town! 37709 rumbles through the former platforms with a rake of loaded alumina tanks on the drawbar. The train ID is 6S54 0850 from North Blyth to Fort William.
An unusual view of 60042 taken from the platform of the long abandoned Craiglockart station looking through the 60 yard long Craiglocklart Tunnel below the road and Union Canal to the junction. The working is 7B58 1530 from Ravenstruther to Millerhill loaded MGR.
EMU 305508 is seen again this time at Slateford as it carries out its turnback manouevre running as 5Y32 1652 off Haymarket to Slateford and back.
At this point in time all cross country workings were either loco hauled or HST's. Virgin painted 86242 gathers speed approaching Slateford with a rake of InterCity liveried mkII stock bound for Birmingham New Street. It left Edinburgh Waverley at 1710 and will go south on the WCML at Carstairs.
156456 makes its Slateford stop with 2Y50 1616 class 2 stopper from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh.
Strathclyde PTE orange 156506 makes its Slateford stop working 2Y44 1714 Edinburgh to Motherwell. Beyond is 37707 waiting for the road as once the sprinter is clear, it will take the crossover and run wrong road through the station to access the sub.
After having to wait for a short while to allow a passenger working to go by, 37707 runs light and enters Craighart Loop at Slateford heading for Millerhill.
The heavy daily 6L80 1401 Deanside to Wisbech petfood train runs through Slateford wrong road to gain the Sub which is only via the trailing turnout on the westbound road at the station with 56057 in charge.
A loaded rake of HAA coal hoppers behind 66033 shakes the platforms of Slateford as it heads for the Sub and onto Millerhill and the south. The train ID is 6E42 1653 off Mossend for the Eastern Region at Tyne Yard, Newcastle.
56107 is seen again with its cement tanks. They have been emptied and it is returning them to Oxwellmains for refilling. The train ID is 6B86 1945 from Viewpark near Glasgow to Oxwellmains to the south of Dunbar.
