Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)

Introduction

This line is closed. The branch served Denny and various iron and coal mines in the area and the Carrongrove Paper Mills.





Dates

  /  /1846Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Branch authorised. Not built at this time.
  /  /1848Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Branch authorised. Not built at this time.
  /  /1856Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Branch authorised.
  /  /1857Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Extension to Stoneywood Goods and Ingliston Goods authorised.
01/04/1858Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Line opened.
  /  /1859Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Adjustments to the authorised extension lines.
01/01/1860Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Ingliston Goods and Stoneywood Goods branches opened, also known as the Denny Branch Extension.
  /09/1862Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Denny Shed opened to the east of Denny station near the Ingliston Goods after this date. There was no turntable at the shed, but there was one at the end of the Ingliston Goods. Locomotive turning was done on a triangle of colliery lines. A sub-shed of Stirling Shed [CR].
01/02/1888Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Denny West Junction to Carmuirs West Junction opened. (In advance of the opening of the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway on 02/07/1888.)
  /  /1889Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Doubling of branch and Ingliston Goods extension authorised along with a curve to the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway (latter not built).
  /  /1892Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Powers for a curve allowing running from Denny onto the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway expire. Curve not built.
  /  /1898Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Doubling of Denny branch and extension to Ingliston Goods - extension of time to complete.
  /  /1900Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Further extension of time allowed for doubling.
  /  /1902Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Further extension of time allowed for doubling.
28/07/1930Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Denny to Larbert (Bonnywater Junction) closed to passengers.
28/07/1930Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Denny Shed closed.
01/02/1935Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Larbert Junction to Kilsyth (New) to Kilsyth Junction closed to passengers.
20/07/1967Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Denny West Junction to Carmuirs West Junction closed to all traffic.
04/10/1971Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
Denny to SSEB Bonnywater Electricity Siding (excluded) closed to freight.
03/04/1972Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway)
SSEB Bonnywater Electricity Siding to Larbert Junction (excluded) closed.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Larbert to Denny

At this junction the lines from Greenhill Lower Junction (for Glasgow Queen Street High Level and the south) and Falkirk Grahamston (for Edinburgh Waverley and the south) meet to run north to Larbert, Stirling and Perth. All lines are double track.
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Scottish Central Railway
Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
A southbound DMU from Dunblane passing through Larbert Junction in the spring of 2015. The train is a Glasgow Queen Street service and is on the route ...
John Furnevel 20/05/2015
ScotRail 170393 about to pass south through Larbert Junction in May 2015.The DMU is operating a Dunblane - Glasgow Queen Street service seen shortly ...
John Furnevel 30/05/2015
ScotRail 158782 forming a mid-morning service from Dunblane takes thr Falkirk Grahamston route at Larbert Junction on 20 May 2015. ...
John Furnevel 20/05/2015
A late afternoon ScotRail service from Edinburgh Waverley photographed on 26 April 2006 having just completed the climb up from Carmuirs East ...
John Furnevel 26/04/2006
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This was the junction between the Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway) of 1858 and the 1888 curve from Carmuirs West Junction.
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Looking west at Denny West Junction by Carmuirs. ...
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This was a junction between the 1858 Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway) and the 1888 Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway. Both lines were single track. There was a loop on the later line running west from the junction.
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Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway
View facing west at the former Bonnywater Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This junction was east of Denny station, the start of a branch which ran north west to Vale Paper Works and Anchor Paper Mills at Dunipace, Ingliston Mine, Quarter Colliery Pit No 1 and Quarter Colliery Pit No 2. The main line continued west to Denny station and the lines west to Herbertshire Paper Mill and Carronrigg Colliery. To the east, on the south side of ...

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This was a single platform terminus, although the line skirted south of the platform and continued west as a goods and mineral line to Herbertshire Colliery Pit No 2, Stoneywood Goods and Carrongrove Paper Mills. The station had a single platform and the line approached from the east.
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A local resident watches with interest the unusual sight of a train at the closed station of Denny. The occasion was a tour by the Rail Society of ...
Colin Kirkwood 18/10/1969
NBR 256 at Denny with the 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour. View looks west. ...
WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 17/06/1960
NB256 with Scottish Rambler. ...
John Robin 30/03/1964
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Ingliston Branch

This junction was east of Denny station, the start of a branch which ran north west to Vale Paper Works and Anchor Paper Mills at Dunipace, Ingliston Mine, Quarter Colliery Pit No 1 and Quarter Colliery Pit No 2. The main line continued west to Denny station and the lines west to Herbertshire Paper Mill and Carronrigg Colliery. To the east, on the south side of ...

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Carrongrove Branch

This was a single platform terminus, although the line skirted south of the platform and continued west as a goods and mineral line to Herbertshire Colliery Pit No 2, Stoneywood Goods and Carrongrove Paper Mills. The station had a single platform and the line approached from the east.
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A local resident watches with interest the unusual sight of a train at the closed station of Denny. The occasion was a tour by the Rail Society of ...
Colin Kirkwood 18/10/1969
NBR 256 at Denny with the 1960 RCTS/SLS Joint Scottish Tour. View looks west. ...
WA Camwell (Copyright Stephenson Locomotive Society) 17/06/1960
NB256 with Scottish Rambler. ...
John Robin 30/03/1964
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This was the Woodyett Pit (the nearby No 3 was the Station Pit).
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This goods yard was at the west end of the Denny Branch Extension / Stoneywood Branch, a westwards extension of the Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway). The yard, with a goods shed and loading bank, served the immediate area and Carrongrove Paper Mills which was to the west. In early days there was an ironstone mine to the south, served by a curved siding approached from the east.
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This former large paper mill on the south bank of the River Carron expanded east (absorbing the Herbertshire Mill) and west on the north side of the B818. It was served by Stoneywood Goods to the east (from 1860), across the road. The railway approached the mill from Denny to the east. The branch was extended to sweep south of the goods yard over a level crossing to run through the works. ...

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Carmuirs Curve

In 1882 the Caledonian Railway built a curve to link together the 1848 former Scottish Central Railway and the 1850 former Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway such that a train from the Glasgow direction could run to Falkirk Grahamston (and on to Grangemouth or even Edinburgh Princes Street) without reversal at Larbert Junction. The signal box was on the east side of ...

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Scottish Central Railway
Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
Carmuirs West Junction box viewed from the east. ...
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A Glasgow - Aberdeen train about to pass under the Forth and Clyde Canal on the approach to Carmuirs West Junction in 1990. ...
Ewan Crawford //1990
EWS 66107 about to pass Carmuirs West box with a Hunterston - Longannet coal train in June 2004. The train is on the steep climb north after passing ...
John Furnevel 15/06/2004
66201 heads west past Carmuirs West box on 25 May with coal empties. ...
Bill Roberton 25/05/2007
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This was the junction between the Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway) of 1858 and the 1888 curve from Carmuirs West Junction.
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Looking west at Denny West Junction by Carmuirs. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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Carronrigg Colliery