Falkirk High

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Falkirk (1842-1903)
Falkirk High (1903-)

Station code: FKK National Rail ScotRail
Where: Falkirk, Scotland
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Opened on the Callendar Colliery Railway.
Opened on the Rough Castle Branch (North British Railway).

Description

This is a two platform station in the south of Falkirk. There is a car park to the north, the former goods yard, and a new station building on the eastbound platform, replacing two typical North British Railway buildings which faced each other on each platform.

The signal box was located in the goods yard, on the north side of the line. The goods yard was reached by a reversing spur west of the station.

A further yard was added to the south of the station after opening, accessed from the west. This was associated with the Callendar Colliery Railway which ran south east.

To the west a long siding ran on the south side of the line which passed underneath the railway to reach Camelon Goods [NB].

The signal box closed in 1968.

When built this station was some way from Falkirk, but the town has expanded since.

To the east of the station is Falkirk Tunnel. To the south of the station the Union Canal also passes through a tunnel.

North of the station is Falkirk Grahamston, closer to the town centre, on a parallel railway largely catering for northbound and local rather than Edinburgh-Glasgow services.

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Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map




Chronology Dates

13/10/1853Edinburgh Station and Branches (Caledonian Railway)
From Slateford Junction [1st] to a bay platform by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway's Haymarket station opened. Trains could run from the bay to Carstairs or Falkirk. The line is opened with a running of the Royal Train to Haymarket. The connection at Haymarket was taken out later.
  /  /1892Rough Castle Branch (North British Railway)
Opened from Falkirk High to Camelon Goods [NB].
  /  /1958Rough Castle Branch (North British Railway)
Closed from Falkirk High to Camelon Goods [NB]. To Rough Castle Tar Works (excluded) closed 1960.
04/03/1964Dalry Road Lines (Caledonian Railway)
Stirling and Falkirk trains diverted from Edinburgh Princes Street to Edinburgh Waverley.

News items

19/10/2023MSP says there should be no cuts to staffing hours at Falkirk railway stations to maintain safety [Falkirk Herald]
11/10/2022Rail passengers call for accessible footbridge at Falkirk High Station [Falkirk Herald]
02/11/2021Falkirk High to become Scotland's first net zero carbon station [Falkirk Herald]
21/09/2020ScotRail: Flood damaged Glasgow to Edinburgh express route reopens [Evening Times]
24/07/2019ScotRail celebrates Class 385 one-year anniversary [ScotRail]
13/10/2018First new ScotRail train back on track after fault fixed [BBC News]
26/08/2018ScotRail introduces latest new electric train [ScotRail]
18/06/2018Local stations upgraded ahead of roll-out of brand new trains [ScotRail]
23/08/2017Edinburgh Glasgow line goes live for testing [EGIP News]
12/03/2015New ScotRail train designs unveiled [BBC News]

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

Edinburgh ( Western New Town) 1877: Edinburgh Large Scale Sheet 34 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook (Auld Kirk Museum Publications)
Edinburgh To Inverkeithing.: including The Port Edgar, North Queensferry And Rosyth Dockyard Branches. (Scottish Main Lines.)

Edinburgh Waverley

Edinburgh Waverley Station Through Time
Edinburgh's Transport: The Early Years v. 1
Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Haymarket Motive Power Depot Edinburgh: A History of the Depot, Its Work and Locomotives, 1842-2010

Landranger (66) Edinburgh, Penicuik & North Berwick (OS Landranger Map)

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

On Either Side, 1939: The Train between London King's Cross & Edinburgh Waverley, Fort William, Inverness & Aberdeen (Old House)

Rails Around Glasgow

The Next Stop: Inverness to Edinburgh, station by station

This Magnificent Line (the story of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian