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Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking west at Carmuirs East Junction and signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/835.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![Looking east at Falkirk Camelon station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/836.jpg "Camelon")
![Carmuirs East Junction box looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7289.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![A 26 hauls oil west through Falkirk Grahamston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7690.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Some wing-mirrors would be useful. Westbound at Falkirk Grahamston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7700.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![<i>Wizard of the Moor</i> rounding Carsmuir curve with NB 4.4.0 62489 Glen Dessary (pilot). S.L.S. Visit to Forth Bridge. [Railscot note: location is probably the Carmuirs curve.]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 25/06/1950]](/images/9000/9223.jpg "Carmuirs East")
![A Waverley bound Metro-Cammell DMU runs past the stations west box and into the eastbound platform at Falkirk Grahamston in 1970. <br><br>[John McIntyre //1970]](/images/17000/17820.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Eager anticipation. Looking east at Falkirk Grahamston in October 1983 awaiting the arrival of a steam special. <br><br>[David Panton /10/1983]](/images/21000/21382.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Eastbound DMU at Falkirk Grahamston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8085.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Falkirk Grahamston looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8086.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Looking west at Carmuirs East Junction. Line to left for Glasgow and the south, line to right for Stirling and the north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8354.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![Westbound DMU crossing the (then closed) Forth and Clyde Canal at Swing Bridge East, Falkirk in 1988. The signal box has now gone and the road and level crossing have been replaced with a new road bridge carrying the A9 which was under construction when the photograph was taken (view is from the approach embankment). [See image 20841]<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/17000/17992.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![View looking east away from Falkirk Grahamston in 1988. The ground frame for the old SRPS depot at Springfield Yard is at the bottom left. The also gave access to a long loop for the Grangemouth branch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/18000/18021.jpg "Springfield Yard Junction")
![This is a view of Grangemouth Junction as it was in 1989. The box is gone now and you don't see too many <i>'It's the blue you're looking for'</i> adverts around these days. View looks west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/28000/28916.jpg "Grangemouth Junction")
![Welcoming committee, Falkirk Grahamston, September 1989.<br><br>[John Furnevel 04/09/1989]](/images/5000/5871.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![The lever frame in Carmuirs East signal box in 1990. Makes an interesting comparison with the configuration today [see image 53931]. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/53000/53937.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![Looking east to Grangemouth Junction signalbox on 20 March 1992. The structure which replaced it was decommissioned in December 2017.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/03/1992]](/images/62000/62947.jpg "Grangemouth Junction")
![A DMU railtour passing Swing Bridge East signalbox, Falkirk, on 13 June 1992.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 13/06/1992]](/images/36000/36486.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![Swing Bridge box north of Falkirk Grahamston controlled the canal swing bridge (foreground)<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1994]](/images/11000/11070.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![A 158 crossing the Forth & Clyde Canal at Swing Bridge East (lock no 9) in 1995.<br><br>[James C Wilson Collection //1995]](/images/60000/60854.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![A 150 service approaching Carmuirs East Junction en route to Waverley in July 1996. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/17000/17099.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![Two bygones for the price of one: Grangemouth Junction signal box and cigarette advertising. Photographed in July 1996. [See image 28916]<br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/51000/51352.jpg "Grangemouth Junction")
![Swing Bridge East signal box stands on the east side of the Forth & Clyde canal at Falkirk in June 1997.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1997]](/images/20000/20344.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![View east towards Camelon station from Carmuirs East Junction in June 1997, with the two homes and the Larbert distant semaphores framing their recently installed cls replacement. <br><br>[David Panton /06/1997]](/images/22000/22284.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![Photograph taken at Camelon in June 1997 showing the unusual 'distants-only' junction signal for Carmuirs East.<br><br>[David Panton /06/1997]](/images/27000/27058.jpg "Camelon")
![66249, with loaded coal train, passing east at Carmuirs East Junction in 2000.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2000]](/images/54000/54010.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![A Transrail-liveried Class 60 slows a train of oil empties for Grangemouth through Falkirk Grahamston in early 2001.<br>
<br><br>[David Spaven //2001]](/images/26000/26828.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Coal empties from Longannet power station approaching Camelon, westbound, on 10 December 2004. The locomotive is crossing the bridge over the A9 alongside the overgrown island platform of the original Camelon station, with the old stairway between platform and road level still visible [see image 13253]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2004]](/images/6000/6131.jpg "Camelon")
![Westbound coal empties returning from Longannet to Hunterston rumble west through Camelon station, Falkirk, on 10 December 2004. The train is signalled for the route west at Carmuirs East Junction, just beyond the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2004]](/images/32000/32532.jpg "Camelon")
![EWS 66229 has just crossed the bridge over the A9 on the west side of Falkirk on 10 December 2004. The locomotive is about to run west through Camelon station with returning coal empties from Longannet power station bound for Hunterston import terminal. <br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2004]](/images/34000/34176.jpg "Camelon")
![Longannet - Hunterston empties westbound through Camelon station, Falkirk, on 10 December 2004 behind EWS 66229.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/12/2004]](/images/51000/51772.jpg "Camelon")
![A westbound 158 arrives at Falkirk Grahamston on the last day of 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/12/2004]](/images/4000/4750.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Imported coal from Hunterston import terminal, heading for Longannet power station via the Forth Bridge, rumbles east through Falkirk Grahamston station on New Years Eve 2004. The locomotive is EWS 66157.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/12/2004]](/images/5000/5279.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![An SPT liveried DMU leaves Falkirk Grahamston westbound with a train for Glasgow Queen Street via Cumbernauld on New Year's Eve 2004.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/12/2004]](/images/56000/56707.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![West view from the extended platforms. In the distance a train for Cumbernauld and Queen Street approaches Carmuirs East Junction.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /08/2006]](/images/12000/12524.jpg "Camelon")
![New Strathclyde livery 170 Calls at Camelon eastbound.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12455.jpg "Camelon")
![Camelon, alight here for Falkirk Ice Rink?<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/12000/12498.jpg "Camelon")
![A Glasgow - Grahamston service arrives at Camelon.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /09/2006]](/images/13000/13504.jpg "Camelon")
![66203 quietly pulls the Longannet empties through Camelon, this service will be diverted via Stirling in the new year.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/09/2006]](/images/11000/11029.jpg "Camelon")
![The GNER 07.55 Inverness - London Kings Cross <I>Highland Chieftain</I> HST service pulls away from its Falkirk Grahamston stop on 21 September 2006. This train is scheduled to arrive at Kings Cross at 15.59.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/09/2006]](/images/11000/11047.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![Train from Glasgow Queen Street via Cumbernauld calls at Camelon, its last stop before Falkirk Grahamston.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 21/09/2006]](/images/11000/11131.jpg "Camelon")
![A train for Dunblane leaving Falkirk Grahamston on 21 September 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/09/2006]](/images/11000/11401.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![View of the modern station. The former Falkirk Camelon station, which was an island platform now overgrown, is passed by a 158 on the down line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 23/09/2006]](/images/11000/11436.jpg "Camelon")
![An eastbound service arrives at Camelon station in January 2007. After crossing the bridge over the A9 road, part of which can be seen in the foreground, the train will pass the remains of the former station.<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2007]](/images/13000/13254.jpg "Camelon")
![An eastbound service passing the remains of the 1903 NB Camelon station in January 2007. As can be seen, the station stairway up to the island platform is still in place, although now partially bricked up at street level. [See image 13253]<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/01/2007]](/images/13000/13252.jpg "Camelon")
![The bricked-up entrance to the abandoned NB Camelon station, seen from the west side of the A9 road in January 2007. Behind the brick wall is the stone stairway that led up to the island platform. [See image 6131]<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/01/2007]](/images/13000/13253.jpg "Camelon")
![An eastbound train departs Camelon for Edinburgh in January 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/01/2007]](/images/15000/15684.jpg "Camelon")
![Dunblane - Edinburgh train stops at Grahamston on 21 July.<br><br>[David Panton 21/07/2007]](/images/16000/16168.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![An Edinburgh - Dunblane 158 service, having just left the Edinburgh and Glasgow main line at Polmont Junction (at the bridge in the left background) on 7 August 2007, runs downhill towards its next stop at Falkirk Grahamston. [See image 16130] <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel 07/08/2007]](/images/27000/27290.jpg "Polmont Junction")
![The 13.22 Glasgow Queen Street - Falkirk Grahamston via Cumbernauld crosses the Forth & Clyde Canal in September 2008. The train is passing the site of Swing Bridge East signal box on the far side of the canal [see image 20344]. A boarded up lock-keepers cottage stands on the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 23/09/2008]](/images/20000/20786.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![A westbound train shortly after leaving Grahamston on 23 September 2008 crossing the Forth and Clyde Canal at Swing Bridge East, photographed from alongside the A9. [See image 17992] <br><br>[John Furnevel 23/09/2008]](/images/20000/20841.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![Refurbished set 158 718 (note the halogen headlights) arrives at Camelon on 27 September 2008 bound for Edinburgh Waverley.<br><br>[David Panton 27/09/2008]](/images/20000/20940.jpg "Camelon")
![A terminating service from Glasgow Queen Street arrives at Falkirk Grahamston on 4 March 2009, formed by 170 473. <br><br>[David Panton 04/03/2009]](/images/22000/22816.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![An Aberdeen - Edinburgh train passing Camelon on 16 May during diversions due to weekend engineering works.<br><br>[Brian Forbes 16/05/2010]](/images/29000/29115.jpg "Camelon")
![View east from Grahams Road bridge, Falkirk, during a warm and pleasant afternoon on 25 July 2011, with the east end of the platforms of Grahamston station directly below the camera position. DBS 66147 has just arrived light engine bound for the Grangemouth branch and is currently held at the signal protecting Grangemouth Junction. The cause of the hold up has just appeared off the branch after a short layover and is about to cross over to run back into Grahamston's platform 2 where it will form the 14.42 service to Glasgow Queen Street via Cumbernauld.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35008.jpg "Grangemouth Junction")
![Scene amongst the summer greenery 50 yards west of Grahamston station on 25 July as the departing 13.31 Edinburgh - Dunblane service meets the incoming 13.21 Glasgow Queen Street - Falkirk Grahamston. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35018.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![A Dunblane service arrives at Falkirk Grahamston platform 2 on 25 July 2011. The train is the 13.31 ex-Waverley, due into Dunblane at 14.35. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35031.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![The 14.28 Dunblane - Edinburgh Waverley leaves Falkirk Grahamston on 25 July 2011.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35071.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![The 15.28 Dunblane - Edinburgh Waverley arrives at Falkirk Grahamston on 25 July.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35136.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![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 waits to run light engine to the W H Malcolm depot on the Grangemouth branch to pick up a freight. The hold-up is due to a train on the branch waiting to reverse back into Grahamston station with a return Queen Street via Cumbernauld service. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35189.jpg "Grangemouth Junction")
![<i>'ALL CHANGE HERE PLEASE...'</i> The 14.21 service ex-Glasgow Queen Street via Cumbernauld has just arrived at its final destination at Falkirk Grahamston on 25 July. The train will now head for the Grangemouth branch for a short layover after which it will run back into the westbound platform to form the return working [see image 35008]. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35229.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![The 14.33 Edinburgh - Dunblane service stands at Falkirk Grahamston on 25 July 2011. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35286.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![The west end of Falkirk Grahamston station on 25 July 2011, with the 14.28 Dunblane - Edinburgh Waverley service slowing on its approach to platform 1.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/07/2011]](/images/35000/35992.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![The 14.33 from Edinburgh Waverley arrives at Falkirk Grahamston on 15 August on its way to Dunblane.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/2011]](/images/35000/35487.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![A Dunblane - Edinburgh 158 arrives at Falkirk Grahamston on 2 January 2013, a day of reduced train services. The station car park also bears testament to the fact that today is a holiday in Scotland.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2013]](/images/41000/41575.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![An Edinburgh - Dunblane DMU crosses the Forth and Clyde Canal at Swing Bridge East, Falkirk, shortly after leaving Grahamston on 2 January 2013. Apart from the fact the bridge no longer swings, the surrounding area has changed beyond all recognition in the last 25 years. For the view from the other side of the lock [see image 41594].<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2013]](/images/41000/41582.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![Tesco containers shortly after leaving WHM Grangemouth on a grey 2 January 2013. The train is crossing the Forth and Clyde Canal westbound at Swing Bridge East behind DRS 66423. Photographed looking north east towards the Forth from the south gates of Camelon Railway Lock (no 9). For the view from the other side of the lock [see image 41582].<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2013]](/images/41000/41594.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![A train for Edinburgh Waverley pulls up at Falkirk Grahamston on 2 January 2013. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/01/2013]](/images/41000/41618.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![DRS 66432 crosses the Forth and Clyde Canal between Falkirk Grahamston and Camelon with the 4A13 Grangemouth - Aberdeen intermodal on 30 May. Swing Bridge East signalbox was located next to the house on the far left of the picture. The house on the right is the former lock keeper's cottage [see image 20786]. <br><br>[Bill Roberton 30/05/2014]](/images/47000/47500.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![170478 was the last Turbostar in SPT livery. It has been transformed into Saltire colours and is here working the 11.58 from Dunblane to Edinburgh on 30 May approaching Swing Bridge East. [See image 46569] <br><br>[Bill Roberton 30/05/2014]](/images/47000/47566.jpg "Swing Bridge East")
![Composite image showing the interior of Carmuirs East signal box in January 2016.<br><br>[Ross Wilson 13/01/2016]](/images/53000/53931.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![The refurbished signal box at Carmuirs East Junction in January 2016.<br><br>[Ross Wilson 13/01/2016]](/images/53000/53932.jpg "Carmuirs East Junction")
![Next part of the journey from Motherwell to Edinburgh the long way round.<br><br>[Gordon Steel 06/03/2017]](/images/60000/60735.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![A Dunblane to Edinburgh service calls at Camelon on 16 November 2017. The OHLE<br>
masts are up either side, but the trickier task of masting up the station has not yet started.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/11/2017]](/images/61000/61893.jpg "Camelon")
![A 156 from Glasgow Queen Street has arrived at its final stop and is<br>
signalled to enter the Grangemouth branch to change ends. The branch is<br>
already wired up and it would be nice to think this is in anticipation of<br>
the reopening of Grangemouth station. Unfortunately there's no sign of this<br>
happening soon. 16th November 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/11/2017]](/images/61000/61928.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
![An Edinburgh to Dunblane service pulls out of Falkirk Grahamston on 16 November 2017. Note that we have masts, but no wires yet.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/11/2017]](/images/61000/61960.jpg "Falkirk Grahamston")
