Bonnybridge
Location type
StationNames and dates
Bonnybridge (1870-1953)Bonnybridge High (1953-1965)
Bonnybridge (1965-1967)
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station almost surrounded by brick works. The station was partly built on a bridge over a road, the station buildings being to the east of this and platforms extending over to the west. There was a goods yard to the south of the line, west of the station and a goods line bypassed the station to the south.
Reinstate Bonnybridge Station
The Bonnyside Fire Brick Works was served from the goods line, it was to the east. To the west was the Milnquarter Fire Clay Works. Both were to the south.
To the north was the Woodlea Brick Works.
Further to the west was a branch to the Bonnybridge Silca and Fire Clay Works which was south of the station and other brick works.
The signal box closed in 1965 and station in 1967.
Bonnybridge itself was to the north, some distance away and across the Forth and Clyde Canal.
Tags
Station brick worksExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
12/12/2019
Chronology Dates
| / /1904 | John G Stein Opens new brickworks at Castlecary to use higher alumina content, than Bonnybridge, found there. Built by the Caledonian Railway and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. |
| 10/10/2005 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway A proposal to open Bonnybridge station is rejected by councillors despite a 5000 signature petition. The council had received a £450,000 grant from the Scottish Executive to investigate public transport improvements in the M80 corridor. |
