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Portobello railway station was located at Station Brae, off Southfield Place, in the Portobello area of Edinburgh (Scotland), with footpath access also from other directions. The station opened in 1846〔 by the North British Railway. There was an earlier Portobello station opened by the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.〔 ==History== The station was rebuilt in 1887.〔AJ Mullay, “Rail Centres: Edinburgh,” 1991 (page 126)〕〔Margeorie Mekie in “Old Portobello,” 1999 (page 4)〕 During its lifetime, as rail services evolved, Portobello was served by most passenger trains running out of the east end of Waverley including stopping trains on the Berwick and Carlisle main lines and through trains to the various branches, e.g. Musselburgh, North Berwick, Gifford, Glencorse, Penicuik, Polton, Dalkeith, but excepting express and semi-fast long distance trains and a few limited stop residential trains (as they were then known), for example some North Berwick and Dunbar trains. There was a service to South Leith from a separate platform. Following the opening of in 1903, to which Edinburgh south suburban circle trains via Portobello ran, the South Leith service was rapidly run down and then withdrawn in 1905. Although the station was accessible from residential areas in several directions, and not much more than 300 metres away from more densely populated High Street area, tram and bus services from the High Street to a range of destinations across the city centre abstracted traffic from the rail service. Until the end of operation some of those commuters for whom the service was convenient continued to travel home for lunch, a benefit from their season ticket purchase but of no financial benefit to the railway. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Portobello (NBR) railway station」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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