Cawburn Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Cawburn Junction (1986-2010)Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway.
Description
This was not a true junction. The double track line from Newbridge Junction, to the east, singled here as it continued west. A temporary panel box opened in 1986, closing when taken over by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.
For the re-opening of the line between Airdrie and Bathgate, in 2010, the line west was re-doubled, work beginning in 2007.
Just to the east of this location the Roman Camp Oilworks Railway passed overhead the line, connecting together the Roman Camp Oil Works and Broxburn Branch (North British Railway). The bridge abutments partly survive.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Uphall Drumshoreland Dechmont [1st] Dechmont [2nd] Broxburn [1st] Bangour [Hospital] Livingston North Kirknewton Winchburgh Livingston [1st] Livingston South Livingston Mill Almondhaugh Ratho (Low Level) Ratho | Roman Camp Shale Oil Mine No 6 Roman Camp Oil Works Cawburn Chemical Works Cawburn Shale Mine Uphall Junction Uphall Oilworks Camps Junction [NB] Pumpherston Oil Works Middleton Hall Sidings Holygate Goods Bangour Junction Muirhead Canal Bridge Broxburn Oil Works Shale Mine Shale Mine |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
