Uphall and Bangour Asylum Railway




Dates

  /  /1902Edinburgh District Lunacy Board
Purchased the Bangour Estate and will build the Uphall and Bangour Asylum Railway.
  /  /1905Uphall and Bangour Asylum Railway
Line opened with stations at Dechmont [2nd] and Bangour [Hospital].
  /  /1921Uphall and Bangour Asylum Railway
Closed to passengers and goods.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was the junction for the short Bangour [Hospital] branch. A box opened here in 1903 in preparation for the branch opening. The branch was from the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway, on the north side and approached from the east.
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Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway
Shortly after leaving Uphall station (visible in the background) on 18 August, a Waverley - Bathgate 158 service is about to run past the site of ...
James Young 18/08/2008
View west towards Livingston as an Edinburgh - Bathgate service passes the site of the former Bangour Junction on 18 August 2008. ...
James Young 18/08/2008
Bathgate - Edinburgh train approaches the site of Bangour Junction on the single line branch in June 2007. ...
James Young 26/06/2007
With redoubling and bridge alterations complete, a Bathgate - Waverley service approaches the site of Bangour Jct on 18 March 2009. Electrification is ...
James Young 18/03/2009
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Surviving parapets of an infilled skew bridge in the centre of Dechmont where the Bangour branch once passed under the road. Dechmont station itself ...
Douglas Blades 02/08/2021
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