Camps Branch (North British Railway)

Introduction

This branch served Camps and the Pumpherston Oil Works. It crossed the River Almond on a substantial viaduct, Camps Viaduct, near East Calder. The line was included in the North British Railway (Camps &c) Act (Act number c.ccxci). The portion to Camps was railway no 1 - 3 miles 42 chains from the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway in the parish of Uphall to East Camps Lime Works in the parish of Kirknewton in the County of Edinburgh.






Dates

  /11/1913Raw Pit (East Calder)
Closed by Coltness Iron Works for limestone (Raw Camps Quarry and East Camps Quarry). The Camps Branch (North British Railway) was directly associated with the quarry and carrying limestone from Camps Lime Works to the iron works.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

East of Uphall station was the junction for the Camps Branch (North British Railway). It was on the south side of the main line opposite Uphall Junction (slightly to the east). The junctions shared a signal box. The branch ran south to Camps Quarry and the Pumpherston Oil Works.
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Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway


This was a shale crude oil works and refinery opened by the Pumpherston Oil Company. It was provided with shale, by rail, from a number of mines. The railway was the Camps Branch (North British Railway) of 1869.
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This view shows the Camps Branch running south towards Camps Viaduct. The land to the right of the railway trackbed, now a footpath, had been the ...
Ewan Crawford 06/12/2003
Site of Pumpherston oilworks. View north back towards the junction with the main line in January 1978 see image 36408. ...
Bill Roberton /01/1978
A rather poor quality slide, taken with a Kodak box camera in 1970, of the Scottish Oils sidings at Pumpherston on the truncated NB Camps branch from ...
Douglas Blades 03/06/1970
The branch line from Drumshoreland Junction at the former Pumpherston Oilworks in January 1978. Looking south east towards Camps Viaduct see image ...
Bill Roberton /01/1978
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This is an impressive disused nine arch stone single track viaduct over the gorge of the River Almond. It is 118 yards long overall and 90 ft high. In addition to crossing the river it also passes over a canal feeder for the Union Canal.
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Now forming one of the highlights of a walk through Almondell and Calderwood Country Park in West Lothian, Camps Viaduct once carried a mineral line ...
John Furnevel 12/09/2010
A fast flowing section of the River Almond, seen here passing through the 220 acre Almondell and Calderwood Country Park in West Lothian on its way to ...
John Furnevel 12/09/2010
Looking along the country trail across the Camps Viaduct in July 2022. This once carried the mineral line that ran from Drumshoreland to Broxburn and ...
John Yellowlees 22/07/2022
Spanning the River Almond in West Lothian, the viaduct once carried a mineral line serving various industrial locations in the area. Closed to all ...
John Furnevel 12/09/2010
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This goods depot consisted of a goods shed, two sidings, a crane and a weighing machine on the west side of the line, south of Camps Viaduct. Approach to the shed was from the south east, Camps quarries, direction.
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