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Category	Library Item
Item No	17364
Title	Morningside Station, looking east
Description	A red train has pulled in at Morningside Station, Edinburgh. A man is looking out of a train window whilst several people including a lady in a checked coat and cream hat are standing on the platform. A metal bridge reaches over the tracks and several children are playing on it.
Artist / Maker	Hill, Robin A.
Date	1962
Size	16.1 x 24 cm
Type	"Photograph"
Location	Edinburgh Room

More Information

Morningside Station, opened in 1884 as part of the South Suburban Railway. It was built opposite the toll-house at the southern end of Morningside. The South Suburban Railway closed in 1962.

Morningside is a residential district in the south of Edinburgh. It lies to the south of Bruntsfield and the west of the Grange and Blackford Hill.

Subjects

Transport > Infrastructure > Railway stations

People > Children > Children playing

Transport > Land > Trains

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Places > Edinburgh areas > Morningside