“The Station Nobody Wanted”: the thread about Leith Central

On this day, 123 years ago at 5:55AM, a little steam train puffed out of Leith Central Station. It was an unremarkable opening for a station about which everything was remarkable: its size, its cost, its short operational life, and the fact it was built by a company that never wanted it in the first place. These days if you stand in the car park of what is now the Tesco superstore at the foot of…