Camelon

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Camelon (1993-)

Station code: CMO National Rail ScotRail
Where: Falkirk, Scotland
Opened on the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway.

Description

This is a minimal modern two platform station. It is on the west side of the Stirling Road. On the east side the two lines part, having formerly passed round either side of an island platform (the former Falkirk Camelon [1st] station).

The station has no parking.

Local

The station is the nearest (at around a mile and a half) to the Falkirk Wheel , an unusual shiplift linking the Forth and Clyde Canal and Union Canal.

Tags

Station
04/10/2019




Chronology Dates

  /09/1994Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
Camelon station opened.
03/07/2011Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
Twin bridges at Camelon replaced to improve linespeed.

News items

18/11/2021Falkirk train services disrupted due to track safety inspection [Daily Record]
24/01/2021Drugged up lorry driver crashed into Camelon railway bridge [Falkirk Herald]
04/10/2019ScotRail marks 25th anniversary of reopening of Camelon station [ScotRail]
26/09/200410th Anniversary of Camelon opening