Blackridge
Location type
StationName and dates
Blackridge (2010-)Station code: BKR National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Bathgate and Airdrie.
Description
This is a modern two platform station to the east of the village of Blackridge. It has a car park on its north side.
The station was opened in 2010 with the re-opened Airdrie - Bathgate line. It was built to the immediate west of the former Woodend Junction yard, a set of exchange sidings on either side of the line serving collieries to north and south the last of which was the Woodend Colliery.
To the west was Westcraigs station, which this new station effectively replaces.
Tags
Station06/06/2020
| Nearby stations Westcraigs Armadale [1st] Armadale Forrestfield Avonbridge Whitburn Blackston Junction Westfield Glenellrig Bathgate Lower Bathgate Upper Bathgate [1st] Bathgate [4th] Slamannan Fauldhouse | Westrigg Colliery Pits Nos 2 and 3 Blackrigg No 2 Colliery Woodend Junction Westcraigs Junction Blackrigg No 1 Colliery Coal Pit Craigmill Siding Southrigg Colliery Pits Nos 7 and 8 Barbauchlaw Quarry Coal and Ironstone Pit Coal and Ironstonw Pit Woodend Colliery Pit No 4 Coal Pit Armadale Colliery Woodend Colliery Pit No 2 |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 12/12/2010 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
Boghead to Cowdenhead Branch (Monkland Railways)
Torbanehill and Bathgate Branch (Monkland Railways) Opened between Airdrie and Bathgate. Stations at Drumgelloch, Caldercruix (delayed opening until 13 February), Blackridge, Armadale. |
News items
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
