Midcalder Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Midcalder Junction (1869-)Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This is the junction between the Caledonian Railway's Carlisle to Edinburgh Princes Street main line of 1848 and its Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, via Shotts, of 1869.
The signal box was on the north side of the junction, opened with the Shotts line.
In addition to the junction the box also controlled access to the Oakbank Oil Works branch. This was on the north side of the Shotts line west of the junction. It ran parallel to the junction where there were several looped siding on the north side making their connection to the main lines just east of the junction. (The box was to the north of these loops).
The junction was crossed by a footbridge, just to the west, and now removed.
The box closed in 1981 replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.
Both lines are now electrified.
Tags
Junction01/08/2019
| Nearby stations Kirknewton Livingston South Newpark Drumshoreland Uphall Dechmont [1st] Livingston Mill Livingston North Ravelrig Platform Almondhaugh Dechmont [2nd] Harburn Livingston [1st] Bangour [Hospital] West Calder | Oakbank Oilworks Oakbank Viaduct Oakbank Mine East Calder Goods Linhouse Water Viaduct Camps Lime Works Raw Camps Mine Camps Viaduct Camps Goods East Camps Quarry Camps Brick Works Newfarm 3 and 4 Raw Camps Quarry Tourist/other Oakbank Signal Box Linhousewater Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 22/11/1981 | Caledonian Railway Midcalder Junction box closed. |
