Castlecary
Location type
StationName and dates
Castlecary (1842-1967)Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Description
This was a two platform station at the west end of the Castlecary Viaduct. To the north of the station was the Castlecary Fireclay and Lime Works which was rail served from the east (and had a tramway to the Forth and Clyde Canal).
There was a goods yard at the east end of the station to the south of the line accessed by reversal from the west.
Nothing remains of the station which closed in 1967, the box (east end of the station, south side) closing in 1966.
The M80 passes under the viaduct to the east of the former station.
The area has much of interest from the Roman occupation. Castlecary Roman Fort is east of the viaduct and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway runs through the site.
An accident occurred here in 1937 and second accident in 1968.
Local
Antonine Wall - Castlecary Roman Fort
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
07/10/2019
| Nearby stations Banknock Dennyloanhead Upper Greenhill Greenhill Bonnybridge Canal Goods Dullator Bonnybridge Central Bonnybridge Cumbernauld Colzium Denny Greenfaulds Croy Kilsyth (New) Kilsyth (Old) | Fireclay and Limeworks Castlecary Viaduct Netherwood Siding Castlecary Curve Lock 19 [FCC] Lock 20 [Wyndford Lock] [FCC] Abronhill Tunnel Lock 18 [FCC] Castlecary Fireclay Works Coneypark Colliery Pit No 4 Cannerton Brickworks Banknock Colliery Livingstone Pit Tourist/other Castlecary Roman Fort Bankier Quay Bankier Distillery |
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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. |
| 10/12/1937 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 35 are killed in a train crash at Castlecary when an Edinburgh to Glasgow express struck the rear of a Dundee to Glasgow. This was the worst crash in the London and North Eastern Railway's history. |
| 09/09/1960 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway A signalling error leads to a collision at Castlecary. |
| 29/09/1968 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Collision at Castlecary. |
News items
| 10/12/2017 | Memorial marks 80 years since Castlecary train disaster [BBC News] |
| 29/08/2008 | Village memorial to rail disaster [BBC News Article] |
| 22/01/2003 | Airdrie to Bathgate to re-open? |
