Gullane railway station served the village of

Gullane Gullane ( or ) is a town on the southern shore of the Firth of Forth in East Lothian on the east coast of Scotland. There has been a church in the village since the ninth century. The ruins of the Old Church of St. Andrew built in the twelft ...

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. It was served by the Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick railway. This line diverged from the

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at Aberlady Junction, east of the current Longniddry station.

History

The station opened on 1 April 1898 as the terminus of the

Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick Railway The Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick Railway was promoted independently to develop settlements between Longniddry and North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland. It opened its line from a junction near Longniddry as far as Gullane in 1898, but n ...

when it began operating the line between here and Aberlady junction (on the

North British Railway The North British Railway was a British railway company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was established in 1844, with the intention of linking with English railways at Berwick. The line opened in 1846, and from the outset the company followe ...

between and ).Butt (1995), page 111Grant (2017), page 5 The line was intended to reach and thereby provide a route to North Berwick, but this section was never constructed and Gullane remained as the terminus. The station had one platform on the north side of a loop that allowed the engine to run around. There were three sidings behind the platform forming a goods yard able to accommodate most types of goods including livestock; it was equipped with a two ton crane. There was an engine shed and a signal box. The line and station were absorbed by the

on 6 August 1900. The station then passed on to the

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(LNER) during the

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of 1923. That company withdrew passenger services nine years later, although the line was still open to freight until 1964. The station building was used by LNER as a camping apartment from 1935. The

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continued this use of the buildings, sometimes marketed as ''Camping Cottages'' in the 1950s and up to the line closing in 1964. The station was also the location of a

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from 1956 to 1964.

The site today

The houses of Muirfeld Drive and Muirfield Station are built on the old site of Gullane railway station. A railway hotel, the ''Marine'', was built in 1900 and was the main building of the Scottish Fire Service training school. This was closed in March 2015 and converted to housing.

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