Linlithgow

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Linlithgow (1842-)

Station code: LIN National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

This is a two platform station. An original station building stands on the eastbound platform, a remarkable survivor. The building is two storeys, one seen from the platform. At its east end is a covered area. The west end of the eastbound platform is slightly cantilevered out over St Michael's Wynd.

There is a car park by the station, formerly the goods yard on the south side which was on a loop south of the westbound platform. The station is towards the east end of Linlithgow, south of Linlithgow Palace.

The signal box was on the south side of the line at the east end of the station. It was rebuilt in 1941.

The signal box was closed in 1979, absorbed by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.

To the east of the station is a loop on the north side and siding to the south.

West of the station the original cast iron footbridge at Well Wynd is C listed, along with the retaining walls on either side of the line. During electrification the walls were built up sympathetically with new stonework rather than be replaced.

To the west was Lochmill Siding, a goods yard at the west end of Linlithgow. Beyond is Avon Viaduct.

Local

Historic Environment - Linlithgow Palace is not far north west of the station.

Tags

Station

External links

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

Facilities

Listing: C


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Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Oldest Railway Photograph


The oldest railway photograph is considered to be the colotype taken by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson in 1845 of Linlithgow station.

National Galleries - Linlithgow from station

The view is from the south of the station looking north west to Linlithgow Palace.


A second view also exists, taken further west.

National Galleries - Linlithgow from the railway station, with the Town Hall, St Michael's Church and the Palace in the centre background

The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was engineered by John Miller, friend of D.O. Hill.


The John Miller connection continues. Another early photograph taken by Hill and Adamson is of John Miller's 1848 Ballochmyle Viaduct.

National Galleries - Ballochmyle Viaduct


Chronology Dates

17/09/2004Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
A cow from a road vehicle escapes onto the railway line damaging fencing near Linlithgow and leading to train cancellations.

News items

05/05/2023Linlithgow railway boundary wall work completed [Network Rail]
18/11/2022Heavy rain and flooding brings travel disruption [BBC News]
18/11/202212 pictures as amber weather warning extended as flooding causes chaos across Scotland [Scotsman]
29/04/2022Fiona Hyslop secures meeting with Transport Minister on Winchburgh Station [Edinburgh News]
26/01/2022Linlithgow MSP highlights train ticket office consultation [Falkirk Herald]
11/10/2021Glasgow Central and Queen Street shortlisted for Britains best railway station [Glasgow World]
12/07/2021Falkirk areas appalling railway trespass figures revealed in new survey [Falkirk Herald]
16/03/2021Union Canal refilled after devastating breach sparked huge disruption [Falkirk Herald]
24/01/2021'We were used, and they've abandoned us' - Farmer impacted by Union Canal breach speaks out against Scottish Canals [The Scotsman]
16/09/2020ScotRail posts video showing progress to repair Edinburgh to Glasgow railway line [Edinburgh 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