Railways in East Lothian

Andrew M. Hajducki

In 1945 there were almost 80 miles of railway line in use in East Lothian, with twelve passenger stations and a multiplicity of public and private sidings and goods depots; by 2000, the route mileage had been halved, the number of passenger stations reduced to seven and a mere handful of private sidings remained. On the face of it these figures would tend to suggest that the county has mirrored the almost universal decline and disintegration of Scotland's once flourishing railway network but mere statistics can, of course, be misleading.