RAILSCOT | Rough Castle Sidings

Rough Castle Sidings

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Rough Castle Sidings

Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

Served a small opencast opened in 1986. Coal sent to Cockenzie Power Station, as Blindwells Opencast tailed off.

Tags

Opencast

Nearby stations Camelon [1st] Bonnybridge Camelon Falkirk Camelon [1st] Bonnybridge Canal Goods Bonnybridge Central Greenhill Larbert Upper Greenhill Falkirk High Falkirk Grahamston Denny Dennyloanhead Alloa Junction Castlecary	Rough Castle Guano Works Roughcastle Junction Rough Castle Brick Works Camelon Junction Carmuirs Tunnel Rough Castle Tar Works Lime Road Goods St Andrews Works [High Bonnybridge] Lochview Foundry Siding Carmuirs West Junction Denny West Junction SSEB Bonnywater Electricity Siding Bonnyside Brick Works Tourist/other Rough Castle Roman Fort Falkirk Wheel
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

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