Addiewell Oil Works Signal Box
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Addiewell Oil Works Signal Box (1869-1936)Opened on the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This signal box was located east of the present day Addiewell station. It was on the north side of the line at the point where the exchange sidings for Young's Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil Company's 1865 Addiewell Chemical Works, (a shale oil works) were located. These were on the north side of the line, approached from the east. Access into the works was by running to the west and then reversing. By continuing beyond this, the competing Addiewell Branch (North British Railway) would be reached.
The box burned down in 1936. As the refinery had closed in 1921 it was not replaced (the site remains served by the Addiewell Branch (North British Railway).
Tags
Signal box| Nearby stations Addiewell West Calder Foulshiels Bents Cobbinshaw [1st] Harburn Whitburn Breich Cobbinshaw [2nd] Longridge [2nd] Longridge [1st] Almondhaugh Newpark Livingston Mill Bathgate | Addiewell Chemical Works Addiewell Goods [NB] Pit Burngrange Viaduct Burngrange Shale Mine Pit No 39 Cuthill Colliery Harwood Colliery Baads Mine Cuthill Crossing Cuthill Siding Five Sisters Bing Westwood Oil works Loganlea Colliery Breich Oil Works Woodmuir Junction |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
