Ratho Station
Ratho Station is a commuter village of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located in Edinburgh council area.
Ratho Station is a commuter village of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, located in Edinburgh council area. It is located south of Edinburgh Airport; the community has a population of approximately 600. About 300 houses are within the village limit.
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Worth seeing in and around Ratho Station
9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Almond Valley Viaduct
The Almond Valley Viaduct is a large Victorian railway viaduct on the boundary between West Lothian and Edinburgh in Scotland. The viaduct is 622 metres long and has 36 masonry arches, making it one of the longest viaducts in Scotland.
2.2 km · railway viaduct near Edinburgh, Scotland · Wikipedia - 02Broxburn Viaduct
The Broxburn Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the boundary between West Lothian and Edinburgh in Scotland. The viaduct carries the Glasgow–Edinburgh via Falkirk line across the A89 road and Brox Burn.
2.8 km · railway viaduct near Edinburgh, Scotland · Wikipedia - 03Jupiter Artland
Jupiter Artland is a contemporary sculpture park and art gallery outside the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. Jupiter Artland Foundation is a registered charity that is supported by classes, workshops, events, ticket sales, and donations.
3.9 km · sculpture garden and art gallery in the west of City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 04Almond Aqueduct
The Almond Aqueduct, also known as the Lin's Mill Aqueduct, is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Union Canal over the River Almond in Scotland, west of Ratho, Edinburgh.
3.4 km · navigable aqueduct in West Lothian/City of Edinburgh, Scotland · Wikipedia - 05Hatton House
Haltoun House, usually known as Hatton House,, was a Scottish baronial mansion set in a park, with extensive estates in the vicinity of Ratho, in the west of Edinburgh City Council area, Scotland. It was formerly in Midlothian, and it was extensively photographed by Country Life in September 1911.
3.7 km · house in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 06Newliston
Newliston is an 18,146 sq ft country house near Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located 1 mile south-west of Kirkliston, and 8 miles west of the city centre.
2.6 km · building in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 07Bonnington Aqueduct
The Bonnington Aqueduct is an aqueduct on the Union Canal, to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland.
2.1 km · aqueduct on the Union Canal, to the west of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 08Carlowrie
Carlowrie Castle was built in the Scottish Baronial style between 1852 and 1855 on the outskirts of Kirkliston, a town approximately 10 miles from Edinburgh, Scotland. It has only ever belonged to two families: the Hutchison family, who built it, and the Marshall family, who acquired it 130 years later.
2.3 km · building in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia - 09Cat Stane
The Cat Stane, or Catstane, is an inscribed standing stone near Kirkliston, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, in Scotland. It bears a fragmentary inscription dating to the fifth or sixth centuries and was part of a funerary complex consisting of the stone itself, a cairn and a series of cist burials.
2.5 km · archaeological site in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ratho Station
- Airports
- Edinburgh (EDI), 2 km · Glasgow (GLA), 66 km · Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 89 km
- Stations
- Edinburgh Airport, 1.8 km · Edinburgh Airport tram stop, 2.1 km
- Glasgow → Ratho Station55 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £5–7
- Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Ratho Station91 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Ratho Station155 km · quickest by road, 3h 17m · £19–25
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Ratho Station
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Ratho Station. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Edinburgh, follow A90 west then branch off onto B924, the old road to the ferry.
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Next door to Ratho Station
Ratho Station is 12 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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