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Gifford and Garvald Railway Act 1893
Gifford and Garvald Railway Act 1893
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Citation	56 & 57 Vict. c. cc
Dates
Royal assent	24 August 1893
Text of statute as originally enacted

Gifford and Garvald Railway Act 1891
Gifford and Garvald Railway Act 1891
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to incorporate the Gifford and Garvald Railway Company and to empower them to construct a Railway in the County of Haddington and for other purposes.
Citation	54 & 55 Vict. c. lxxxv
Dates
Royal assent	3 July 1891
Text of statute as originally enacted

Gifford and Garvald Railway
Overview
Locale	Scotland
Successor	North British Railway
Technical
Track gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Length	9+1⁄4 mi (14.9 km)

Macmerry and
Gifford Lines

Legend

Garvald

(

authorised

extension

)

Winton

to Dunbar

Smeaton

East Coast Main Line

to Edinburgh

Edinburgh & Dalkeith Rly

(part of Waverley Route)

The Gifford and Garvald Railway was a 9.25-mile-long (14.89 km) single-track branch railway line in East Lothian, Scotland, that ran from a junction west of Ormiston on the Macmerry Branch to Gifford via three intermediate stations, Pencaitland, Saltoun, and Humbie.

History

The line was proposed in November 1890 and the company was authorised by the Gifford and Garvald Railway Act 1891 (54 & 55 Vict. c. lxxxv) on 3 July 1891 to construct a line of 12 miles and 200 yards. Only 9.25 miles of line was completed and opened on 14 October 1901.^[1] Run by the North British Railway from opening the line remained independent until 1923 when it became part of London and North Eastern Railway. At Pencaitland, the line served the Glenkinchie distillery, and continued onward to Gifford where it terminated next to what is now the Gifford Community Woodland. The extension of the line to Garvald was never completed.

The line closed to passengers on 3 April 1933 when the Macmerry Branch withdrew its services. After a bridge collapse in August 1948 the section from Gifford to Humbie closed but the remaining line stayed open. On 2 May 1960 the line past Humbie closed to freight and the remaining line on 25 April 1965.