Cobbinshaw [1st]
Location type
StationName and dates
Cobbinshaw [1st] (1874-1875)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.Description
This station was opened on the west bank of the Cobbinshaw Reservoir (a feeder for the Union Canal).
The station was by Cobbinshaw Siding, or Cobbinshaw Mineral Depot, several sidings alongside an pumphouse with an engine. The engine was on the east side of the line alongside the reservoir. The sidings probably provided the engine with coal.
The Edinburgh and Leith Water Company were granted permission to lay their water pipe alongside the railway from the reservoir to the city.
The signal box here, Cobbinshaw Mineral Depot, was replaced in 1914 and closed in 1966.
A permanent station was opened at Cobbinshaw [2nd].
Tags
Station sidingsAliases
Cobbinshaw Siding Cobbinshaw Mineral DepotExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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04/07/2020
| Nearby stations Cobbinshaw [2nd] Harburn Addiewell West Calder Auchengray Haywood Bents Breich Foulshiels Newpark Longridge [1st] Longridge [2nd] Wilsontown Livingston South Almondhaugh | North Cobbinshaw Lime Works Tarbrax Junction South Cobbinshaw Colliery Woolfords Mine Viewfield Mine Mine Harburn Limeworks Baads Mine Tarbrax Oil Works Pit Harwood Colliery Shale Mine Burngrange Shale Mine Pit No 39 Tourist/other Cobbinshaw Reservoir Harburn Limeworks Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
