Bangour Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Bangour Junction (1905-1945)Opened on the Uphall and Bangour Asylum Railway.
Opened on the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway.
Description
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.
The junction was generously laid out with exchange sidings on either side of the branch line immediately north of the point of junction. The signal box was between the branch and main line. The box closed in 1921 with the branch.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Dechmont [1st] Uphall Dechmont [2nd] Bangour [Hospital] Livingston North Drumshoreland Livingston [1st] Livingston Mill Almondhaugh Livingston South Newpark Broxburn [1st] Kirknewton Winchburgh Philpstoun | Camps Junction [NB] Uphall Oilworks Uphall Junction Middleton Hall Sidings Cawburn Junction Roman Camp Oil Works Shale Mine Pumpherston Oil Works Shale Mine Carmondean Junction Holygate Goods Oakbank Mine Broxburn Oil Works Camps Viaduct Deans Oil Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
