Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal)

Introduction

This railway is open to freight and formerly carried a passenger service. Grangemouth was initially associated with the Forth and Clyde Canal, which built the railway. The Caledonian Railway took over and greatly expanded the docks particularly with the addition of the Carron and Grange docks for seagoing vessels. The port handled timber import and coal export. It now now mostly associated with the Grangemouth Refinery (Grangemouth New Oil Terminal) and container port in the Grange Dock. The railway is now centred on Fouldubs Junction from which freight only lines run to various depots. A signal box remains open at the junction making this an unusual location in Scotland where a box survives in an area of freight traffic. The line is now electrified. See also Grangemouth Harbour Railways (Caledonian Railway).






Dates

01/03/1909Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal)
Caledonian Railway hands over the trimming over coal at the Grangemouth Docks to a contractor.
  /08/1999Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal)
Malcolm Group purchases former depot at Fouldubs Junction.
  /09/2001Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal)
Malcolm Group depot on the site of Grangemouth MPD reaches completion.
  /05/2011Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal)
Siding at Fouldubs Junction looped at its northern end to connect with the dock line.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

Also known as Grangemouth Branch Junction. Here the former Grangemouth Railway (Forth and Clyde Canal) meets the 1850 former Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway. Approach is from the west.
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Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
66433 powers uphill to Grangemouth Junction, looking west, in August 2018. This was a grabshot I almost missed as the train came on far more quickly ...
Mark Poustie 04/08/2018
Hold up. Scene at Grangemouth Junction, looking east on 25 July 2011, with 66147 brought to a halt at signals awaiting entry to the Grangemouth ...
John Furnevel 25/07/2011
Looking east to Grangemouth Junction signalbox on 20 March 1992. The structure which replaced it was decommissioned in December 2017.
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Bill Roberton 20/03/1992
The 14.04 Edinburgh Waverley - Dunblane DMU approaches Falkirk Grahamston on 25 July 2011. The train is about to pass DBS 66147, held at signals as it ...
John Furnevel 25/07/2011
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This was a halt serving the Grangemouth Shed at Fouldubs Junction and the nearby sidings. The halt was on the east side of Laurieston Road with steps down to the platforms from the road. The halt had minimal facilities.
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Here we go, here we go, here we go.... A container train, having just left WHM, Grangemouth, passes Falkirk football stadium heading west ...
John Furnevel 21/09/2006
Containers bound for Aberdeen seen shortly after leaving WHM Grangemouth in September 2006 near the site of Thornbridge Halt (1899 - 1938). The train ...
John Furnevel 21/09/2006
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This single ended shed was located in the 'V' of the junction at Fouldubs Junction. The shed was approached from the junction to the east.
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Bainsford Branch (Caledonian Railway)
26001 stands on the fueling point at Grangemouth in late 1993. This was after its stint on the Inverness Kyle Summer specials with 26007 and shortly ...
Douglas McPherson //1993
Looking north from Laurieston Road towards Fouldubs Junction in November 1987. On the left is Grangemouth MPD. On the right is a formerly ...
Bill Roberton //1987
Probably the first view I ever had of Grangemouth Shed. The back wall and outbuildings as seen on Sunday 15th February 1970.
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Bill Jamieson 15/02/1970
The north side of Grangemouth shed on Sunday 15th February 1970, with only the shed foreman's Austin A40 Farina betraying that there's any life on the ...
Bill Jamieson 15/02/1970
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This junction is located on the western edge of Grangemouth. Today it is the junction between various freight lines and the double track railway to Grangemouth Junction. It is controlled by a large signal box on the north side of the line. This box is unusual in Scotland now, for being the only box located on a goods network. From here sidings serve the TDG depot, WH Malcolm depot, ...

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Bainsford Branch (Caledonian Railway)
View south at Fouldubs Junction in October 2014, looking back towards the W H Malcolm depot, part of which can be seen on the other side of the M9 ...
John Furnevel 05/10/2014
DRS 66401 with a train of WHM containers at Fouldubs Junction on 30 May 2008. ...
John Furnevel 30/05/2008
A trainload of oil tanks from the INEOS Grangemouth refinery destined for Dalston Oil Terminal in Cumbria, photographed on the approach to Fouldubs ...
John Furnevel 07/03/2009
A DRS class 66 locomotive accelerates a container train away from the W H Malcolm Grangemouth Depot and under the M9 Motorway on 30 May 2008. ...
John Furnevel 30/05/2008
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This yard still exists, but today it consists of two looped sidings to the north east of Fouldubs Junction whereas historically it was a marshalling yard. It was also known as Grangemouth West Yard and Fouldubs Marshalling Yard. The yard not only dealt with traffic for Grangemouth and the immediate area but also was a principal marshalling yard for longer distance traffic with long distance ...

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Manoeuvring a trainload of containers from the nearby W H Malcolm depot in the sidings at Fouldubs Junction in the summer of 2008. ...
John Furnevel 02/07/2008
DRS 66432 leaves Fouldubs sidings with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal service. 1 August. ...
Bill Roberton 01/08/2017
Leaving Fouldubs Junction in the fog. ...
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DRS 66401 is about to move a container train through Fouldubs Junction and past the W H Malcolm Grangemouth depot on 30 July 2008 before heading for ...
John Furnevel 30/07/2009
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This signal box was between Grangemouth station and Fouldubs Junction. The box controlled the point south of the station where the passenger lines (west side) and goods and mineral lines (east side) met. The goods lines approached from Grangemouth No 2 Signal Box which was on the east side of the station. To the south was a large yard (Fouldubs Junction Yard) which ran south west ...

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Colas 60095 nears its destination with the Dalston - Ineos empty tanks. Note the electrification masts. 1 August. ...
Bill Roberton 01/08/2017
Last day of passenger services at Grangemouth on Saturday 27 January 1968. View is south towards Fouldubs Junction, with Grangemouth station behind ...
Bruce McCartney 27/01/1968
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This was a single platform terminus with a trainshed. The trainshed was cut back at an unknown date before closure. The station was to the west of Grangemouth No 2 Signal Box where the lines to the older and newer Grangemouth docks divided.
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A pair of DRS class 66s on the way south from the Ineos refinery sidings towards Fouldubs Junction on 20 December 2011. The locomotives are about to ...
John Furnevel 20/12/2011
Extract from the Scottish Region timetable winter 1960-61 showing the Kirkie and Grangemouth lines. For years I have felt that the Grangemouth branch ...
David Panton 12/09/1960
37419, looking resplendent in Inter-City livery, heads the Network Rail test train at Grangemouth on 17th June 2020. 37423 was on the rear. ...
Douglas McPherson 17/06/2020
Colas 60095 nears its destination with the Dalston - Ineos empty tanks. Note the electrification masts. 1 August. ...
Bill Roberton 01/08/2017
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This signal box was alongside Grangemouth station and controlled access to and from the dock lines, with three dock railway converging here.
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Grangemouth Harbour Railways (Caledonian Railway)
Looking to the site of Grangemouth station in 1987. The lines in the foreground run to the oil terminal (left) and Grange Dock (right). This was the ...
Bill Roberton //1987
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Looking north from the Station Road bridge in 1987 along the course of a recently lifted part of the dock railway system. This was the original dock ...
Bill Roberton //1987
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Grangemouth Junction Dock (or Upper Dock) linked to the Forth and Clyde Canal at its west end, via a timber basin, and Grangemouth Old Dock at its ...
Ewan Crawford //2000
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Carron Dock (originally New Dock) was opened in 1883 by the Caledonian Railway to the south of Grangemouth Old Dock, with which there was a connection, and continued east to join the River Carron. This was a ship dock with a large entry lock, rather than a dock for canal sized vessels. The Caledonian were the new owners of the Grangemouth Railway and its former owner the [[Forth and ...

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Disused and partly lifted lines serving the south side of Carron Dock, Grangemouth in 1987. The dock was called New Dock, no longer appropriate when ...
Bill Roberton //1987
Long lens view along the overgrown trackbed of the line that once served Grangemouth docks, looking north from the A904 road bridge in 2008 see image ...
John Furnevel 23/09/2008
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