Lower Haywood Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Lower Haywood Signal Box (1872-1928)Opened on the Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This signal box (1872) was on the double track section east of Haywood station on the 1860 Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway). It was on the south side of the line opposite Haywood Colliery Pit No 10 (which was served by a loop).
There was a branch to the south west serving Haywood Colliery Pit No 4 and Cleuch Colliery.
Another branch ran first south east and then south to serve Pool Colliery.
Haywood Colliery Pit No 14 was to the east on a loop on the north side of the main line.
The box closed in 1928. The railway was singled in 1946. The branch south west closed in the 1950s and that to the south in the 1920s. The line closed to passengers in 1951 and completely in 1964.
The trackbed is now a dirt road.
Tags
Signal box sidings junction| Nearby stations Haywood Auchengray Wilsontown Cobbinshaw [2nd] Cobbinshaw [1st] Breich Longridge [1st] Fauldhouse and Crofthead Longridge [2nd] Bents Fauldhouse Carnwath Addiewell Headlesscross Foulshiels | Haywood Colliery Pit No 10 Lawhead Junction Pool Junction Lawhead Siding Haywood Colliery Pit No 8 Haywood Colliery Pit No 14 Pool Colliery Pool Colliery Pit No 3 Haywood Colliery Pit No 4 Wilsontown West Junction Coal Pit Wilsontown Junction [2nd] Wilsontown North Junction Cleuch Colliery Ormiston Siding |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
