Grangemouth Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Grangemouth Junction (1860-)Station code: XGM National Rail
Opened on the Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal).
Opened on the Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway.
Description
Also known as Grangemouth Branch Junction. Here the former Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal) meets the 1850 former Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway. Approach is from the west.
Until 1997 this was a double track junction, it is now a single lead junction. The box was closed, replaced by a portacabin (on the north side of the line), in a resignalling which also closed Swing Bridge East Signal Box. The portacabin box closed in December 2017. Local trains from the west which terminate at Falkirk Grahamston can use the first part of the branch as a refuge before reversing.
When first built the branch was single track, doubling before the junction.
Tags
Junction reversing single lead junctionAliases
Grangemouth Branch JunctionExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Falkirk Grahamston Falkirk High Thornbridge Halt Falkirk Camelon [1st] Camelon Camelon [1st] Grangemouth Larbert Polmont Bonnybridge Glenellrig Alloa Junction Bonnybridge Canal Goods Bonnybridge Central Birkhill | Callendar Iron Works Salton Iron Works Springfield Goods Springfield Saw Mills Springfield Iron Works Springfield Yard Dalderse Goods and Mineral Depot Brewery Falkirk Iron Works Grahamston Iron Works Falkirk Gas Works Lock 6 [FCC] Lock 5 [FCC] Tourist/other Thornhill Road Level Crossing Callendar House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1874 | Caledonian Railway Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway Wester Dalry Branch and Dalry Road Lines (Caledonian Railway) Restrictions lifted. Caledonian Railway granted running power over the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. For westbound passenger traffic for the north, the Caledonian Railway must pause at Damhead Junction to pick up any North British Railway coaches. For goods and minerals the company may run from north of Larbert Junction and from Grangemouth Junction over the proposed Wester Dalry branch via Damhead Junction (later Haymarket West Junction) for Edinburgh, Leith and Granton traffic. |
| 29/01/1968 | Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal Company) Grangemouth to Falkirk Grahamston (Grangemouth Junction) closed to passengers. |
| /09/1997 | Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway Grangemouth Junction and Swing Bridge East Junction signal boxes closed. |
