This line is open. ScotRail operates a service between Edinburgh and Bathgate and on to Airdrie and Glasgow.
Until recently occasional freight trains carrying cars made use of the line to run to a car distribution terminal in Bathgate.
/ /1846 | [Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway] Act receives Royal assent |
/ /1849 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Extended from Longridge to Bathgate. This line may have reached Bathgate before the [Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway], which formed a connection with it. |
12/11/1849 | [Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway] Line opened from Newbridge Junction to Bathgate. |
01/01/1923 | North British Railway
Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway
Great North of Scotland Railway
Forth and Clyde Junction Railway
Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway
Gifford and Garvald Railway
Newburgh and North Fife Railway
Lauder Light Railway
Great Central Railway Grouped into London and North Eastern Railway. |
12/06/1934 | [Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway] A road tanker crashes into a overbridge by Uphall station killing a man and injuring a youth |
08/01/1956 | Glasgow City and District RailwayCoatbridge Branch (North British Railway)Monkland and Kirkintilloch RailwayBathgate and Coatbridge Railway (Monkland Railways)Edinburgh and Bathgate RailwayEdinburgh and Glasgow Railway Last regular Glasgow Queen Street Low Level to Edinburgh Waverley via Shettleston, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Bathgate Upper service runs. |
24/03/1986 | [Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway] Re-opening to passengers with stations at Uphall, Livingston North, and Bathgate |
These locations are along the line.
Bathgate Junction was created with the opening of the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway line west to Bathgate [1st] in 1849. It met the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway of 1842.
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This double track eight arch viaduct is west of Newbridge Junction on the Bathgate line. It is 121 yds long overall and 50 ft high.
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This was the junction for the Newliston Shale Mines. These mines were on either side of the Brox Burn. The junction was east of Drumshoreland station and west of Bathgate Junction (now Newbridge Junction).
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This bridge is east of the former Drumshoreland station. The former Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway crosses over the Union Canal by a skewed double track bridge.
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This is a two platform station with a car park alongside each platform. Uphall itself is to the north and the station is in the village of Uphall Station, which developed after the station opened.
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This was the junction for the short Bangour [Hospital] branch. A box opened here in 1903 in preparation for the branch opening. The branch was from the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway, on the north side and approached from the east.
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This is a modern two platform station. The original Livingston [1st] station was further west.
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This was the original station in Livingston closed in 1948 along with other stations between Airdrie and Newbridge Junction. It was a two platform station. There was a dock at the east end of the westbound platform, the line serving this coming from a long siding on the south side of the line, approached from the west. The signal box was to the west of the station and on the south side of ...
More detailsThis junction opened in 1875 to serve the Seafield Oil Works near West Calder. The branch, North British Railway owned, was single track. The junction made a trailing connection with a trailing crossover to the west. The signal box was to the north of the junction.
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Bathgate shed was east of Bathgate Upper and on the north side of the line. This six road shed was replaced in 1954 with a new four road shed on the same site. Approach was from the east.
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This is a new two platform station which occupies a site east of the Bathgate [4th] terminus. The large carpark to the north of the station is built on the site of Bathgate Shed. ...
More detailsThis junction was created in 1850 when the 1849 Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway was met by the Longridge to Bathgate (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) line just east of Bathgate [1st] station. The connection faced Edinburgh, allowing goods and minerals to run through whereas passenger trains would need to reverse to reach Bathgate station.
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This was the fourth station to be opened in Bathgate and, when opened, the first in the town for twenty years following the closure of Bathgate Upper in 1956.
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This was the first station in Bathgate. It appeared in working timetables as Bathgate E&G as that company operated the independent Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway.
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