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Bathgate Upper
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Looking east at Bathgate (Upper) station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/213.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Class 101 DMU tour train in Bathgate Upper station. View looks east.<br><br>[Michael Gibb //]](/images/0/338.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![A BLS special stands at Bathgate Upper on 6 May 1961 behind N15 0-6-2T no 69163, having recently arrived from Maryhill Central. The locomotive was about to run round before embarking on the next leg of the journey to Avonbridge.<br><br>[David Stewart 06/05/1961]](/images/48000/48701.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![NBR 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> at Bathgate Upper on 30 March 1964. The locomotive was on its way from St Enoch to Dunfermline on what was the final day of the SLS <I>Scottish Rambler no 3</I> railtour.<br><br>[K A Gray 30/03/1964]](/images/45000/45820.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![NB 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> photographed at Bathgate on 30 March 1964 with the SLS <I>Scottish Rambler no 3</I> during a water stop on its way to Edinburgh.<br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1964]](/images/49000/49042.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Ex-Great North of Scotland Railway 4-4-0 No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> pauses for refreshment at Bathgate with The Branch Line Society Railtour of 16 October 1965 prior to undertaking the final leg to St Enoch. [Ed note: It would appear that, somewhere between Auchengray and Bathgate on this tour, the third digit of the train reporting number 1Z49 has vanished!]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/10/1965]](/images/22000/22092.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![View east at Bathgate Upper on 16 October 1965 as No 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> prepares to depart with a Branch Line Society Railtour bound for St Enoch.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 16/10/1965]](/images/22000/22113.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![J36 no 65345 with <I>Scottish Rambler no 5</I> at Bathgate Upper on 11 April 1966, having recently brought the special back from a visit to Westfield. [See image 23043]<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/04/1966]](/images/32000/32949.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![<i>'Scottish Rambler No 5'</i> arriving back at Bathgate on 11 April 1966 following a trip to Westfield. From here, after another run-round by the J36, the special would head for Polkemmet Junction and a visit to Fauldhouse.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 11/04/1966]](/images/40000/40944.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![A car train photographed at the west end of Bathgate station, thought to have been taken in 1969. The train is probably the 4S42 ex-Dagenham, on this occasion conveying Mk 2 Ford Cortinas, the favoured choice of many a notable railway photographer of the period [see image 29963]. <br><br>[Jim Peebles //1969]](/images/30000/30429.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Bathgate (Upper) station, closed to passengers in January 1956, seen from the west in February 1970, showing the junction of the Avonbridge and Airdrie lines.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson /02/1970]](/images/28000/28879.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![The remains of Bathgate (Upper) station from the west in February 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson /02/1970]](/images/29000/29916.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![A diverted Glasgow Queen Street (Low Level) to Edinburgh Waverley train approaches Bathgate Upper station on Sunday 7th March 1971. The most likely train is the 16.30 departure from Glasgow (which would seem to be borne out by the rather dark original slides).<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 07/03/1971]](/images/36000/36926.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Looking back along the train as it passes through the partly demolished Bathgate Upper Station on 7 March 1971 [see image 36926]. The junction for Bathgate Lower can be seen immediately beyond the trailing driving car.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 07/03/1971]](/images/36000/36936.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Looking along the closed Riddochhill Colliery/British Leyland branch in 1984 with Bathgate Upper station in the background.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1984]](/images/45000/45086.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Looking west towards Airdrie at Bathgate Upper in 1988. The westbound platform to the left had been removed but the eastbound was still intact. Regrettably the station building had been burned down. Ahead was the junction between the lines to Airdrie via Westcraigs (left) and Airdrie via Slamannan (right and very overgrown). The platform had been dug up and then carefully resurfaced. [Thanks to the few who have pointed out that the chequer pattern clay tiles from here, Partick Central, Plains, Motherwell and Whiteinch Riverside were carefully removed for re-use at Boness. The station platform had to be reinstated as it still saw occaisional use.] The site of the station is now a carpark although with the line reopening this is now out of use and a large embankment covered in trees which in recent years had obscured this view is now being removed. This location will soon be used as a station again.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/23000/23334.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Looking east at Bathgate Upper. Bathgate Goods Yard was off to the left - a Landrover on a car train can be seen in the yard on the left. A new road had been built on the level which severed the old station from the still open line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/23000/23335.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Felled lattice signal post in the weeds at Bathgate Upper in 1988. This was behind the westbound platform.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/53000/53635.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![The once rail - connected former North British Steel Foundry site at Bathgate on 6 June 2009. The new railway to Airdrie will follow the boundary fence in the foreground (on the inside of the former alignment) in order to bypass retail developments in the old goods yard.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/06/2009]](/images/24000/24018.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Quick! Phone Tony Robinson - we've discovered <i>a series of small walls</i> at Bathgate Upper. View towards Airdrie in July 2009.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 12/07/2009]](/images/24000/24545.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Sleepers are being laid in preparation for the first phase of tracklaying on the Airdrie-Bathgate route. This view looks west to Airdrie over the site of the former Bathgate Upper station. The first length will run as far as the distant left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/02/2010]](/images/27000/27737.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Looking east from the site of Bathgate Upper station towards Edinburgh. The prepared trackbed stretches from the foreground to behind the camera at the far end of the former station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/02/2010]](/images/27000/27755.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Progress at Bathgate looking west towards Airdrie - sleepers laid out on the morning of 20 February 2010.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/02/2010]](/images/27000/27789.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![Track laid west from Bathgate looking towards Armadale on 14 March 2010. The current single line Bathgate terminus is off to the right.<br><br>[John Furnevel 14/03/2010]](/images/28000/28113.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![View east from the temporary level crossing at Bathgate towards the new station on Sunday 14 March 2010. The line into the current Bathgate terminus runs along this side of the large silver shed on the left. <br><br>[John Furnevel 14/03/2010]](/images/28000/28119.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![View west at Bathgate on 3 April with signalling equipment now installed.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 03/04/2010]](/images/28000/28350.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![The new line running west from Bathgate towards Armadale on 2 May 2010. <br><br>[John Furnevel 02/05/2010]](/images/28000/28816.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![66162 slowly passes over the level crossing located to the east of the former Bathgate Upper station. The new station can be seen in the background. This ballast train halted after crossing to await instructions.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/06/2010]](/images/29000/29566.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![A service for Bathgate takes the route to the terminus. This followed hot on the heels of a ballast train which, having entered the line under construction, paused out of shot behind the camera. After passage of the ballast train the level crossing fencing is secured across the line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/06/2010]](/images/29000/29589.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
![334 010 departs from Bathgate (New) on 14 May with the 16.48 Edinburgh Waverley - Helensburgh Central.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/05/2011]](/images/34000/34080.jpg "Bathgate Upper")
