Kinneil
Location type
StationName and dates
Kinneil (1985-)Open on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway [Preserved].
Description
This single platform halt dates from 1985, built on a new alignment for the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway [Preserved] opened to the north of the original alignment of the Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway. The original Kinneil [1st] station was to the west.
The line east to Bo'ness [1st] had closed in 1965. The remaining line from Bo'ness Junction [1st] fell out of use in 1975 although track remained in place until around 1980 being lifted just as the preserved line from Bo'ness was being laid from the east. At the time the colliery was still in operation and a new alignment was laid to the north of the original skirting round the site. This land was reclaimed land, formerly the foreshore, the site of dumping of useless materials from the washery. The colliery was mothballed in 1982 and closed in 1983 and has since been demolished.
Kinneil station opened as the western terminus of the new line with a loop. The platform was on the north side of the line.
The former site of the mine is now green land and the former foreshore dump is a nature reserve.
The loop at the halt is now out of use, the line having been extended on to Birkhill (1989) and Bo'ness Junction. The station is now a request halt.
Local
Boness and Kinneil Railway
Kinneil Nature Reserve
Tags
Station preservation heritage terminusExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
04/08/2020
| Nearby stations Kinneil [1st] Bo^ness [1st] Bo^ness Birkhill Culross [2nd] Manuel Low Level Manuel High Level Culross [1st] Manuel Linlithgow Causewayend [MR] [2nd] Torryburn Causewayend [SR] Causewayend [MR] [1st] Grangemouth | Kinneil Iron Works Kinneil Colliery Fertiliser Works Snab Pits Kinneil Slag Hill The Museum of Scottish Railways Bo^ness TMD Victoria Saw Mills Bridgeness No 6 Colliery Grangemouth New Oil Terminal Awaiting Loading Carriden Shipbreaking Yard Grangemouth New Oil Terminal Tourist/other Snab Pier Watt^s Workshop Kinneil House Kinneil House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1987 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Kinneil station opened by Scottish Railway Preservation Society. |
| / /1989 | South of Scotland Electricity Board Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Using track recovered from Kincardine Power Station the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway was extended 3.5 miles from Kinneil to Birkhill (with support from Falkirk District Council, Central Regional Council and the Scottish Tourist Board). |
