Addiewell
Location type
StationName and dates
Addiewell (1882-)Station code: ADW National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts.
Description
This is a two platform station. It has a small car park on the north side.
It was built to serve Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company's 1865 Addiewell Chemical Works, (a shale oil works) and Addiewell, a model (ie ideal) village built for the oil works, which was to the north (modern day Addiewell is to the north west).
The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
About a mile to the west was Woodmuir Junction.
Just to the east of the station, on the north side of the line and accessed from the east, was the exchange sidings for the oil works, controlled by Addiewell Oil Works Signal Box which was burned down in 1936.
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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Facilities
Gaelic name: Tobar Adaidh
| Nearby stations West Calder Foulshiels Bents Breich Longridge [2nd] Whitburn Longridge [1st] Cobbinshaw [1st] Cobbinshaw [2nd] Harburn Almondhaugh Newpark Livingston Mill Bathgate Fauldhouse and Crofthead | Addiewell Goods [NB] Addiewell Oil Works Signal Box Addiewell Chemical Works Pit Cuthill Colliery Cuthill Crossing Burngrange Viaduct Cuthill Siding Baads Mine Burngrange Shale Mine Pit No 39 Loganlea Colliery Harwood Colliery Woodmuir Junction Five Sisters Bing Foulshiels Colliery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1867 | Caledonian Railway A new Haywood (opened 1860) to Addiewell line authorised. (Not built.) |
| / /1869 | Caledonian Railway Proposed Haywood to Addiewell line abandoned. (Addiewell reached by the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) in 1869). |
| 01/07/1882 | Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway). Addiewell station opened. |
News items
| 04/09/2023 | Glasgow and Edinburgh trains disrupted after vehicle hits bridge [STV] |
| 12/06/2021 | Five-year-old children found playing on West Lothian railway tracks as warning issued [Scotsman] |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
