Polmont
Location type
StationName and dates
Polmont (1842-)Station code: PMT National Rail ScotRail
Where: Falkirk, Scotland
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Description
This is a two platform station on the Edinburgh and Glasgow main line. There is a station building on the eastbound platform.
As originally built there was a siding on the eastbound side, west of the station, and accessed from the east. Further sidings and a goods shed were on the westbound side, accessed from the west, and east of the station. Polmont Goods was later moved west of Polmont Junction.
The station expanded to have a further two platforms to the west - two platforms for westbound services provided by adding two lines on either side of the mainline - and a further platform to the east - a bay platform for eastbound trains, on the north side of the line. These platforms no longer exist or are no longer in use.
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Thornbridge Halt Bowhouse Birkhill Manuel Causewayend [SR] Causewayend [MR] [1st] Causewayend [MR] [2nd] Grangemouth Manuel Low Level Manuel High Level Falkirk Grahamston Falkirk High Blackston Junction Avonbridge Westfield | Polmont Junction Polmont Power Box Polmont Shed Polmont Goods Polmont Grain Silo Manuelrig Siding Redding Colliery Pit No 23 Redding Coke Ovens Westquarter Explosives Works [Expansion] Westquarter Explosives Works Craigend Brickworks Tourist/other Polmont East Signal Box Polmont West Signal Box Redding Signal Box Westquarter Dovecot |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 07/05/1956 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Bo'ness [1st] to Polmont (Boness Junction) closed to passengers. |
| 10/07/1984 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 13 were killed and 61 injured, 17 seriously, when train hit a cow on the line near Polmont. The lightweight driving trailer of the push-pull lifted off the track pushed by the locomotive in the rear. |
| /12/2004 | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Polmont station car park enlarged by 150 spaces. |
