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Innocent Railway, Edinburgh

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Were there ever any stations or halts, even short-lived temporary ones, on this particular line?

The line was actually called the Edinburgh& Dalkeith Railway and was built to 4' 6" gauge. There were passenger services so presumably there were stations. Part of the route still exists as the Innocent Cycle Path.

EDIT - The Wikipedia article on the E&D suggests that they got by without intermediate stations.

Passengers had hardly been considered when the railway was being planned, but a businessman, Michael Fox (who had been dynamic in managing coal deliveries in the city) put "an old stagecoach on the line and on 2 June 1832 began a service of three return trips a day between St Leonards and the North Esk depot". In the first full month of operation, 14,392 passenger journeys were recorded, and in the second, 20,615, making 150,000 in the first year of operation for a revenue of £4,000.

There were no intermediate stations, and passengers joined and alighted from the coaches when they wished.

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_and_Dalkeith_Railway
 
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