Today we are talking about Powderhall station. Yes, the Binliner station used to be a passenger station. w3w: w3w.co/humble.... LatLong: 55.967106, -3.1881030
There was still a fair amount of the railway infrastructure still around when I grew up around that area in the 1970s. The station steps led down to the platform on the Redraes Park side of the tracks. Many of the viaducts and sidings were still in place in what is now Bonnyhaugh. We used to play in the old mills when we were kids. My brother still remembers Chancelot Mill before they blew it up. Beautiful building.
Fascinating!! Way back in 1989-90 I worked in an office near here and used to wonder down to the cemetery and check out the railway in case any binliners were passing, can still clearly visualise the big incinerator
All stations to North Leith (aka Leith Citadel) were closed to passengers from 1 January 1917, to release men to fight in World War I. This in fact happened on many lines across the UK. When services were restarted in 1921, Powderhall was not reopened.
@@abbiearcher4716 There was some improvement after the sixties, but there has been a definite degeneration since 2000 in terms of materials used. Some of the buildings put up today start deteriorating within a year or two of construction. One of the worst examples I've seen of that locally would be some of the new flats built just beyond Asda in Newhaven. I noticed some of them were deteriorating even before others in the same development were finished.
@@anonb4632 Ok so the issue here wouldn't be architectural style but the cheap materials and low build quality to keep cost low for flats that would be sold at incredibly high prices and therefore Capitalism?
@@abbiearcher4716 The architectural style just now is bland rather than ugly, which is a related but slightly different problem. As a capitalistic trick, it is not a good one as the reputation of some of these firms will tend to follow them around. Wimpey and Barratt have a mediocre rep, and I think Persimmon is far worse than either of them.
@@abbiearcher4716 That's somewhat simplistic, given that the late Victorian period saw rampant capitalism with Britain ruthlessly ensuring it maintained it's position as the biggest economy by the employment of various tools including credit, a large empire, and the exploitation of other lands and their peoples. The difference in building terms is that the Victorians took greater pride and built for the long-term, be it for residential or commercial purposes. Since the 1940s/50s we have continued on a downward spiral of quality of materials, construction and design.
There was still a fair amount of the railway infrastructure still around when I grew up around that area in the 1970s. The station steps led down to the platform on the Redraes Park side of the tracks. Many of the viaducts and sidings were still in place in what is now Bonnyhaugh. We used to play in the old mills when we were kids. My brother still remembers Chancelot Mill before they blew it up. Beautiful building.
Fascinating!! Way back in 1989-90 I worked in an office near here and used to wonder down to the cemetery and check out the railway in case any binliners were passing, can still clearly visualise the big incinerator
All stations to North Leith (aka Leith Citadel) were closed to passengers from 1 January 1917, to release men to fight in World War I. This in fact happened on many lines across the UK. When services were restarted in 1921, Powderhall was not reopened.
Lost stations gone but very interesting.
Interesting
The industrial buildings of the nineteenth century look better than the residential buildings which are put up today.
Yeah but they both beat the buildings of the 60s.
@@abbiearcher4716 There was some improvement after the sixties, but there has been a definite degeneration since 2000 in terms of materials used. Some of the buildings put up today start deteriorating within a year or two of construction.
One of the worst examples I've seen of that locally would be some of the new flats built just beyond Asda in Newhaven. I noticed some of them were deteriorating even before others in the same development were finished.
@@anonb4632 Ok so the issue here wouldn't be architectural style but the cheap materials and low build quality to keep cost low for flats that would be sold at incredibly high prices and therefore Capitalism?
@@abbiearcher4716 The architectural style just now is bland rather than ugly, which is a related but slightly different problem. As a capitalistic trick, it is not a good one as the reputation of some of these firms will tend to follow them around. Wimpey and Barratt have a mediocre rep, and I think Persimmon is far worse than either of them.
@@abbiearcher4716 That's somewhat simplistic, given that the late Victorian period saw rampant capitalism with Britain ruthlessly ensuring it maintained it's position as the biggest economy by the employment of various tools including credit, a large empire, and the exploitation of other lands and their peoples. The difference in building terms is that the Victorians took greater pride and built for the long-term, be it for residential or commercial purposes. Since the 1940s/50s we have continued on a downward spiral of quality of materials, construction and design.