This junction was formed in 1869 when the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) opened. It met the much older 1834 Wishaw and Coltness Railway Cleland branch here, built to serve collieries and the Omoa Iron Works (1789-1868).
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This siding was on the south side of the line, accessed from the west. By reversal a line south west to the site former Omoa Iron Works and on to Ravenshall Colliery Pits Nos 35 and 40 and Omoa Junction.
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This junction opened with the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) in 1869. It linked that line via a curve (the Drumbowie Branch) from west to north to meet the 1864 Salsburgh Branch (Caledonian Railway) at Langbyres Junction.
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This is two platform station with a car park, footbridge and permanent way siding on its north side, approached from the east.
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This is a ten arch double track masonry viaduct. It is east of Cleland station, formerly Omoa.
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This signal box, east of Cleland Viaduct and station, controll access to Bellside Brick Works and Bellside Quarry.Later it gave access to Bellside Colliery.
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This is a two platform station. It was opened in the countryside to the south east of Hartwood Hospital. A small village has grown around the station site.
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This was the signal box for Curryside Colliery, to the south of the line and with a trailing siding approached by reversal from the west. The box was on the south side of the line by the connection.
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This is a two platform station, the station for which the Cleland to Kirknewton line is known as the Shotts line. The station has a car park on its south side (westbound platform) and ramp access via a long bridge on its north side (eastbound platform). An original stone built station building survives on the westbound platform.
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This signal box controlled the Caledonian Railway's access to the Shotts Iron Co's works railway from the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway). The works opened in 1801.
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This junction was between Shotts and Fauldhouse. From the junction a mineral line ran north to the Benhar Colliery and, latterly, north east to Polkemmet Colliery. Approach to the branch was from the west.
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This is a two platform station. There is a very small car park on the north side.
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This goods yard was east of Fauldhouse station. The goods yard was on the north side of the line and approached from the east. The yard consisted of sidings and a loading bank.
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This is a double track viaduct east of Fauldhouse station.
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This junction was east of Fauldhouse station and Fauldhouse Viaduct. It was the junction for the Mouldron Branch (Caledonian Railway) (authorised as Cleland and Midcalder Railway No 4). The branch was on the south side of the main line and trains leaving the branch would head west.
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This was the junction for the lime workings south east of Fauldhouse. (Nearby, to the west, was Mouldron Junction for the iron ore mines to the south of Fauldhouse.)
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Breich is a two platform station on the former Caledonian Railway's Edinburgh and Glasgow line via Bellshill, Shotts and Kirknewton. The station formerly had a building, typical of the line, on the westbound platform. The station has relatively low platforms and an old footbridge. It is a very quiet station - often, in statistics, shown to have the fewest passengers in Scotland.
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This was a double junction. Two mineral lines began here:
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This is a two platform station. It has a small car park on the north side.
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This signal box was located east of the present day Addiewell station. It was on the north side of the line at the point where the exchange sidings for Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company's 1865 Addiewell Chemical Works, (a shale oil works) were located. These were on the north side of the line, approached from the east. Access into the works was by running to the west and ...

This is a two platform station. A stone station building still stands on the westbound platform. This is the best preserved station building on the line. Mei Hua Platform is based in the station building. There is a car park south of the station. The goods shed remains at the west end of the station, south of the line, in other uses. The lattice ...

This was the eastern end of the 1871 Addiewell Loop (Caledonian Railway) (or West Calder loop). The loop was on the north side of the 1869 Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway). Approach to the single track loop was from the east. There were several sidings in the 'V' of the junction. The signal box was on the north side of the junction. The loop was to serve several works and ...

This was a two platform station on the Shotts line. There was a goods yard on its north side, approached from the east and a siding on the south side, east of the station, approached from the west. The signal box was a the east end of the westbound platform.
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This is a modern minimal two platform station which opened in 1984 on an embankment. The station has a car park on the north side.
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This is a six arch double track viaduct.
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This signal box was west of Midcalder Junction and controlled the approach to the junction of both the Caledonian Railway main line from Carstairs and the Shotts line.
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This is the junction between the Caledonian Railway's Carlisle to Edinburgh Princes Street main line of 1848 and its Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, via Shotts, of 1869.
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