Wallyford [1st]

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Wallyford [1st] (1866-1867)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Opened on the North British Railway.
Opened on the Wallyford Colliery Railway.

Description

This was a short lived station. It was west of today's Wallyford station and north west of today's village.

A signal box, Wallyford, controlled junction and exchange sidings for the line which ran south and east to Wallyford Colliery and Wallford Brick Works. The box closed in 1961, with the closure of the line to the brick works.

Tags

Station short lived
04/02/2019

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

Drem to Edinburgh: Including Gullane, Haddington, Tranent, Musselburgh and Fisherrow Branches (Scottish Main Lines)

Edinburgh St. Margaret's: The Story of the 'Other' Edinburgh Depot of the North British Railway 1845-1967

Exploring Disused Railways in East Scotland

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1
LNER Wagons: Volume 3: Scottish Area: Ex North British and Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway Wagons
North British Railway in Northumberland, The

North British Railway, Vol. 1 (Standard Railway History)

North British Railway, Vol. 2 (Standard Railway History)

Signalling and Signal Boxes along the North British Railway, Great North of Scotland Railway and the CLC Routes

South East Scotland (British Railways Past & Present)

The Castle and the Bear: A Brief History of the North British Railway

The North British Railway a History
The North British Railway, Volume 1, One,
The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Vanished Railways of West Lothian