Pumpherston Oil Works
Location type
WorksName and dates
Pumpherston Oil Works (1882-1981)Served by the Camps Branch (North British Railway).
Served by the Pumpherston Oilworks Railways.
Description
This was a shale crude oil works and refinery opened by the Pumpherston Oil Company. It was provided with shale, by rail, from a number of mines. The railway was the Camps Branch (North British Railway) of 1869.
The crude oil works closed in the 1920s but the refinery remained, supplied with crude from various sources, including Nottinghamshire. The branch was cut back to the refinery in 1959. The refinery closed in 1964. The branch closed in 1981. The last part, the detergent plant, closed in 1993 along with the brickworks just to the north.
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WorksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
| Nearby stations Uphall Drumshoreland Dechmont [1st] Dechmont [2nd] Livingston North Kirknewton Bangour [Hospital] Livingston South Broxburn [1st] Livingston Mill Livingston [1st] Almondhaugh Newpark Winchburgh Ratho (Low Level) | Roman Camp Oil Works Roman Camp Shale Oil Mine No 6 Cawburn Shale Mine Cawburn Junction Cawburn Chemical Works Uphall Junction Camps Junction [NB] Uphall Oilworks Camps Viaduct Oakbank Mine East Calder Goods Bangour Junction Middleton Hall Sidings Muirhead Canal Bridge Holygate Goods |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1905 | Baads Mine (West Calder) Opened by Youngs Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company for Pumpherston Oil Works, for coal. Also known as West Mains. |
| / /1905 | Leadhills Mining Company Archibald & William Fraser (founders of the Pumpherston Oil Works (Pumpherston Oil Company Limited)) take over the Wanlockhead mines from the Duke of Queensberry. |
| / /1962 | Baads Mine (West Calder) Closed when Pumpherston Oil Works closed. |
