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Ratho Station
Community in Edinburgh, Scotland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ratho Station is a commuter village of Edinburgh,[1] 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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The name derives from the closed railway station of the same name (itself named after the nearby village of Ratho), which in 1917 was the site of a rail crash which killed 12 people.