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This was a single platform station with the platform on the north side of a single track line and goods yard to the north, approached from the west. There was a stone building, extended in timber to have a canopy and waiting room, on the brick built platform and a water tank at the west end.

To the west was a junction (Benhar Branch Junction) for a mineral line, Benhar Branch (North British Railway), (opened around 1895 replacing an earlier alignment further west). This served the Fallahill Colliery and Benhar Colliery.

To the east was the junction (Levenseat Branch Junction) for the Levenseat Works, to the south, and Crofthead Colliery, to the north.

A signal box opened by the east junction in 1893.

The station closed to passengers in 1930 and the line west to Blackhall Junction fell out of use in 1950. The box closed in 1959.

From 1952 to 1966 this was the west end of the remaining line from Bathgate, used to access the Levenseat Works branch by reversal. There was a connection to Greenrigg Colliery and Polkemmet Colliery which may have closed in the 1920s.

The station site is partly landscaped and the trackbed is now a footpath. The foundations of the platform remain, currently buried.

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