Carron Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Carron Junction (1908-1968)Opened on the Bainsford Branch (North British Railway).
Opened on the Carron Company.
Description
This was the junction between the railway to the Carron Iron Works and the later (1908) Bainsford Branch (North British Railway). The signal box was in the 'V' of the junction.
From here the line ran north to the iron works, east to Fouldubs Junction and a goods siding ran on the south side of the Fouldubs line serving several works.
To the south was a siding to the Forth and Clyde Canal and to the south west was the curve to Swing Bridge Junction and the Sunnyside Iron Works was to the west.
The siding to the canal and line to the north were the originally the tramway of the Carron Iron Company.
The box and line closed in 1968
Tags
Junction01/05/2019
| Nearby stations Falkirk Grahamston Falkirk Camelon [1st] Camelon Falkirk High Camelon [1st] Larbert Thornbridge Halt Grangemouth Bonnybridge Polmont Bonnybridge Central Bonnybridge Canal Goods Alloa Junction Greenhill Airth | Lock 7 [FCC] Lock 8 [FCC] Carron Company Basin Parkhouse Iron Works Camelon Iron Works Grahamston Swing Bridge Lock 9 [FCC] Swing Bridge Junction Sunnyside Iron Works Lock 6 [FCC] Lock 10 [FCC] Grahamston Iron Works Lock 11 [FCC] Tourist/other Swing Bridge West Signal Box Swing Bridge East Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
