Union Canal
Dates
| / / | Albyn Oil Works Opened by Broxburn Oil Co next to Union Canal. |
| 03/03/1818 | Union Canal First Sod cut at Hopetoun Basin, Edinburgh. |
| / /1822 | Union Canal Canal built to break the Edinburgh coal cartel. |
| /01/1822 | Union Canal First Passenger Vessel sails on Union Canal, Flora MacIver. |
| 31/08/1840 | Slamannan Railway
Ballochney Railway
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Passenger service from Edinburgh to Glasgow introduced by the Slamannan Railway. A trackboat along the Union Canal from Edinburgh to Causewayend Basin was followed by a train from Causewayend [SR] to Arbuckle along the Slamannan Railway. Running powers were then used from Arbuckle to Kipps via the Ballochney Railway, from Kipps to Gartsherrie [GGR] via the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and Gartsherrie to Glasgow Townhead over the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway. (Alternative date 05 August.) |
| / /1845 | Forth and Cart Canal Authorised to make connection to Union Canal. |
| / /1860 | Standrigg Colliery Absorbed into Redding Colliery, new railways approach the colliery replacing the Union Canal. |
| / /1896 | Redding Colliery James Nimmo and Company sink new Redding Colliery No 23 shaft, on the north bank of the Union Canal and by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. |
| / /1910 | Union Canal Union Canal falls into dis-use and dis-repair. |
| / /1965 | Union Canal Officially closed. |
| / /1990 | Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Scottish Railway Preservation Society completes Bo'ness line to Manuel Junction (A station was opened here and the line may be extended to join the Union Canal). |
