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The Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway opened Portobello railway station in July 1832. It remained in use until 1846 when a replacement station was opened nearby on the NBR Main Line.
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Portobello railway station (NBR)
Portobello railway station was located at Station Brae, off Southfield Place, in the Portobello area of Edinburgh, Scotland, with footpath access from other locations. The station was opened in 1846 by the North British Railway. It replaced an earlier Portobello station nearby on the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway.
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Portobello Town Hall
Portobello Town Hall is a municipal structure in Portobello High Street, Portobello, Scotland. The building, which is expected to open under community management, is a Category B listed building.
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Portobello Library, Edinburgh
Portobello Library is a public library in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The current building in Rosefield Place cost £37,500 and was opened on 11 October 1963 by Lord Provost Duncan M. Weatherstone with a stock of 26,000 books and eight staff. The previous accommodation in the Old Town Hall, now Portobello Police Station, was considered unfit for purpose and was criticized for being dirty, dark and overcrowded.
Opened in 1897, the year after Portobello was formally incorporated into the City of Edinburgh, the library service is the joint-second oldest in Edinburgh (after Central Library (1890) and joint with Western (Dundee Street) Library (1897).
In 1997, Portobello Library celebrated its centenary through a programme of talks.
In June 2017, the Edinburgh Tool Library opened a lending service out of Portobello Library.
Portobello Library is one of the main venues for events at Portobello's annual book festival in October.
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Portobello, Edinburgh
Portobello is a coastal suburb of Edinburgh in eastern central Scotland. It lies 3 miles (5 km) east of the city centre, facing the Firth of Forth, between the suburbs of Joppa and Craigentinny. Although historically it was a town in its own right, it is officially a residential suburb of Edinburgh. The promenade fronts onto a wide sandy beach.