Winchburgh Tunnel

Location type

Tunnel

Name and dates

Winchburgh Tunnel (1842-)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

This is a double track tunnel with the former Winchburgh station at the north end and the former Broxburn West Signal Box for the Niddry Castle Oilworks to the south. At both ends it approaches in long cuttings.

The tunnel has undergone works on several occasions, most recently during electrification. Back in 1890 during repairs the line was singled and a temporary signal box used for the duration of works.

Tags

Tunnel
12/06/2019



Chronology Dates

  /05/1997Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Railtrack plans to spend £670,000 on new pumps and drains and removing silt from the Niddry Burn to prevent flooding of the Winchburgh Tunnel.
26/10/2001Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Winchburgh Tunnel pump destroyed by arson.

News items

04/10/2019New Edinburgh Waverley rail link to cut disruption [Scotsman]
15/08/2019Building a short stretch of track would give Edinburgh a third main rail hub [Evening News]
12/08/2019Edinburgh-Glasgow ScotRail trains disrupted as Winchburgh tunnel hit by flooding for second time in days [Scotsman]
08/08/2019Engineers working to clear Winchburgh Tunnel flooding [Network Rail]
13/06/2015Delays kick in on Edinburgh and Glasgow rail line [Scotsman]
11/06/2015How will Winchburgh tunnel rail works affect passengers? [BBC News]
27/05/2015Commuters face worst rail disruption in decades [Scotsman]
29/03/2015Tunnel works are set to cause delays on main Edinburgh line [Linlithgow Gazette]
06/01/2015Edinburgh-Glasgow trains face summer of disruption [Scotsman]
11/10/2013Edinburgh-to-Glasgow rail line to close for tunnel work [BBC News]

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)
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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