RAILSCOT | Bo'ness Junction

Bo'ness Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Bo'ness Junction (2009-)

Opened on the Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway.
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

This is the junction for the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway [Preserved] located at the west end of the former Manuel High Level station. Access to the line is by reversal from the eastbound line of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to a headshunt on the north side of the line.

04/08/2020

Nearby stations Manuel High Level Manuel Low Level Manuel Causewayend [MR] [2nd] Causewayend [SR] Causewayend [MR] [1st] Birkhill Bowhouse Linlithgow Polmont Kinneil [1st] Kinneil Bo^ness [1st] Bo^ness Westfield	Bo^ness Low Junction Manuel Bo^ness Junction Shed Bo^ness Junction [1st] Manuel Brick Works Avon Viaduct Almond Junction Almond Iron Works Canal Lye Avonbank Viaduct Causewayend Junction Birkhill Fireclay Mine Causewayend Engine House Causewayend Incline Top Tourist/other Avon Aqueduct Muiravonside Country Park
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

19/07/1975	Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Kinneil Colliery to Bo'ness Junction closed.

Books

A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

Edinburgh ( Western New Town) 1877: Edinburgh Large Scale Sheet 34 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook (Auld Kirk Museum Publications)

Edinburgh To Inverkeithing.: including The Port Edgar, North Queensferry And Rosyth Dockyard Branches. (Scottish Main Lines.)

Edinburgh Waverley

Edinburgh Waverley Station Through Time

Edinburgh's Transport: The Early Years v. 1

Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Haymarket Motive Power Depot Edinburgh: A History of the Depot, Its Work and Locomotives, 1842-2010

Landranger (66) Edinburgh, Penicuik & North Berwick (OS Landranger Map)

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

On Either Side, 1939: The Train between London King's Cross & Edinburgh Waverley, Fort William, Inverness & Aberdeen (Old House)

Rails Around Glasgow

The Next Stop: Inverness to Edinburgh, station by station

This Magnificent Line (the story of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian