Carmuirs East Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Carmuirs East Junction (1882-)

Station code: CEJ National Rail
Opened on the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway.

Description

This is a double track junction. It is the eastern apex of a triangular of lines formed with Larbert Junction to the north and Carmuirs West Junction to the west.

The junction was formed in 1882 with the opening of a Caledonian Railway curve from Carmuirs West Junction which met the 1850 Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway built to connect the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to the Scottish Central Railway via Falkirk and its industries.

The signal box opened with the junction. It was on the south side of the junction.

The box took over control of Carmuirs West Junction in 2011.

The box closed in 2017, replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.

Tags

Junction
10/10/2019


Chronology Dates

  /  /1876Caledonian Railway
The Carmuirs Fork is authorised for the Caledonian Railway, Carmuirs West Junction to Carmuirs East Junction.
03/06/1882Caledonian Railway
The Carmuirs Fork between Carmuirs West Junction to Carmuirs East Junction opened to goods.
01/08/1883Caledonian Railway
The Carmuirs Fork between Carmuirs West Junction to Carmuirs East Junction is opened to passengers. Running powers are granted to the North British Railway.
  /  /1905Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
Doubling of the Caledonian Railway's Carmuirs West Junction to Carmuirs East Junction curve authorised.