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Wilsontown Junction [2nd]

Location type

Junction

Names and dates

Wilsontown South Junction (1866-1946)
Wilsontown Junction [2nd] (1946-1964)

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

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway).

Description

This was the southern junction of a triangular junction. The other junctions were Wilsontown West Junction and Wilsontown North Junction.

The junction opened in 1866 to connect the 1860 Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway) from Wilsontown West Junction to the 1848 Caledonian Railway's Carstairs to Edinburgh line.

This new curve was approached from the south.

It was a double track junction. The signal box was on the west side of the junction.

A passenger service to Wilsontown from Auchengray began in 1867.

The Wilsontown north to west curve closed in 1945 and the north box closed.

In 1946 the Wilsontown branch was singled. Wilsontown South Junction was renamed Wilsontown Junction. The junction became a single lead junction. The westbound line was lifted.

The Wilsontown branch and the west to south curve closed in 1964.

The main line remains open. The formation of the curve to the west is partly landscaped.

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map

Nearby stations Auchengray Haywood Cobbinshaw [2nd] Wilsontown Cobbinshaw [1st] Breich Carnwath Longridge [1st] Addiewell Longridge [2nd] Bents Fauldhouse and Crofthead Fauldhouse Harburn Headlesscross	Wilsontown West Junction Wilsontown North Junction Haywood Colliery Pit No 14 Pool Colliery Pool Colliery Pit No 3 Pool Junction Haywood Colliery Pit No 10 Lawhead Junction Haywood Colliery Pit No 8 Coal Pit Lawhead Siding Haywood Colliery Pit No 4 Woolfords Mine Cleuch Colliery Tourist/other Lower Haywood Signal Box
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1866	Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway) Wilsontown South Junction to Wilsontown West Junction curve opened. Wilsontown Junction [1st] renamed Wilsontown North Junction.
/ /1946	Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway) Wilsontown South Junction was renamed Wilsontown Junction [2nd]. The Wilsontown branch was singled between Haywood and Wilsontown Junction [2nd].