Tarbrax Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Tarbrax Junction (1869-1950)Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the South Cobbinshaw Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This was the junction for the Tarbrax Oil works (opened 1864). The line had a facing connection from the southbound line of the Caledonian Railway south of Cobbinshaw Reservoir.
There was a signal box on the west side of the line. The branch was single track and main line double track. There was a loop on the branch close to the junction.
Woolfords Mine was just to the south, on the west side of the line with sidings approached from the north. Further on was Viewfield Coal Pit on the south side, alongside a short loop.
Beyond this the line divided into two portions, the original route continuing south east to Tarbrax Oil Works and newer going north east to South Cobbinshaw Siding (serving a brick works) and South Cobbinshaw Colliery.
The signal box closed in 1937. The oil works had closed about 1920.
| Nearby stations Cobbinshaw [2nd] Cobbinshaw [1st] Auchengray Haywood Addiewell Harburn West Calder Breich Bents Wilsontown Longridge [1st] Longridge [2nd] Foulshiels Fauldhouse and Crofthead Newpark | North Cobbinshaw Lime Works Woolfords Mine Viewfield Mine South Cobbinshaw Colliery Mine Tarbrax Oil Works Coal Pit Wilsontown North Junction Wilsontown West Junction Wilsontown Junction [2nd] Harburn Limeworks Haywood Colliery Pit No 8 Baads Mine Tourist/other Cobbinshaw Reservoir Harburn Limeworks Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
