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Greenhill

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Lower Greenhill Junction (1848-1864)
Greenhill Lower (1864-1865)
Greenhill (1865-1966)

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Bonnybridge Canal Branch (Caledonian Railway).

Description

This was originally a two platform station. the platforms were on the Caledonian Railway's Greenhill Branch line from Garnqueen South Junction to Greenhill Lower Junction.

After the opening of the Bonnybridge Junction Yard and Bonnybridge Canal Branch (Caledonian Railway) (1886) it became a three platform station, a new platform face opening on the north side of the station making the northbound platform into an island.

The main station building was on the north platform, heavily canopied. A smaller building was on the southbound.

The connection to Upper Greenhill ran down the south side of the station, but was not served by a platform. There were no platforms on the Scottish Central Railway.

The Bonnybridge branch closed to passengers as long ago as 1933, but the station remained open until 1966.

Several variants of the name existed, including Lower Greenhill, in timetables of various companies.

Aliases

Lower Greenhill
06/09/2020

Nearby stations Upper Greenhill Bonnybridge Canal Goods Bonnybridge Bonnybridge Central Dennyloanhead Denny Castlecary Banknock Camelon [1st] Camelon Falkirk Camelon [1st] Larbert Falkirk High Falkirk Grahamston Alloa Junction	Greenhill Goods [CR] Greenhill Shed [CR] Greenhill Lower Junction Bonnybridge Junction Greenhill Creosote Works Bonnybridge Junction Yard Glenyards Brick Works Dykehead Firebrick Works Greenhill South Signal Box Milnquarter Brick Works Caledonia Stove and Iron Works Bonnyside Foundry Greenhill Upper Junction Bonnybridge Silica and Fire Clay Works Tourist/other Seabegs Wood
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

02/08/1886	Bonnybridge Canal Branch (Caledonian Railway) Opened from Bonnybridge Junction through Greenhill to passengers to Bonnybridge [CR].
/ /1897	Caledonian Railway Scottish Central Railway Widening of the railway at Greenhill authorised.

News items

23/02/2015	Investigation after railway worker shot with air rifle [BBC News]
10/11/2002	Line blocked by landslip near Larbert [Railscot]
10/01/2001	ScotRail's 15min interval Edinburgh to Glasgow service restored