Ratho Station is a commuter village of

Edinburgh Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. The city is located in southeast Scotland and is bounded to the north by the Firth of Forth and to the south by the Pentland Hills. Edinburgh ...

, the capital of

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, located in Edinburgh council area. It is located south of

Edinburgh Airport Edinburgh Airport is an international airport located in the Ingliston area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located west of the city centre, just off the M8 motorway (Scotland), M8 and M9 motorway (Scotland), M9 motorways. It is owned and oper ...

; the community has a population of approximately 600. About 300 houses are within the village limit. The name derives from the closed railway station of the same name (itself named after the nearby village of

Ratho Ratho () is a village in the rural west part of the City of Edinburgh council area, Scotland. Its population at the 2011 census was 1,634 based on the 2010 definition of the locality. It was formerly in the old county of Midlothian (historic), ...

), which in 1917 was the site of a rail crash which killed 12 people.

Amenities

The local primary school is Hillwood Primary School, which replaced the now closed Newbridge Primary School in 1975. Catchment areas include Ratho Station, Newbridge,

Gogar Gogar is a predominantly rural area of Edinburgh, Scotland, located to the west of the city. It is not far from Gogarloch, Edinburgh Park and Maybury. The Fife Circle Line is to the north. Etymology The name of Gogar first appears in a cle ...

and

Ingliston Ingliston (; ) is an area in the west of Edinburgh, near Maybury, South Gyle and Newbridge. It is home to Edinburgh Airport and The Royal Highland Showground. History The name Ingliston either means the "settlement of the Inglis Family" ...

. The village is served by one primary shop, Scotmid or Co-op Foodhall as it was called when first opened. When first created Ratho Station also had its own post office and police station. Both have now closed, with Ratho being the location for the nearest post office.

Employment

A large amount of warehousing and light industry is located along the Queen Anne Drive, with notable businesses such as the BenRiach Distillery Company's Newbridge Bond. The village lies under the flight path of planes very close to

and there is a strict height restriction on building. Two modern office buildings on the main road to the south-west do, however, stretch this height restriction to its limit.

References

Villages in Edinburgh council area {{Edinburgh-geo-stub