Castlecary

Location type

Station

Name and dates

Castlecary (1842-1967)

Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station at the west end of the Castlecary Viaduct. To the north of the station was the Castlecary Fireclay and Lime Works which was rail served from the east (and had a tramway to the Forth and Clyde Canal).

There was a goods yard at the east end of the station to the south of the line accessed by reversal from the west.

Nothing remains of the station which closed in 1967, the box (east end of the station, south side) closing in 1966.

The M80 passes under the viaduct to the east of the former station.

The area has much of interest from the Roman occupation. Castlecary Roman Fort is east of the viaduct and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway runs through the site.

An accident occurred here in 1937 and second accident in 1968.

Local

Antonine Wall - Castlecary Roman Fort

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
07/10/2019


Nearby stations
Banknock
Dennyloanhead
Upper Greenhill
Greenhill
Bonnybridge Canal Goods
Dullator
Bonnybridge Central
Bonnybridge
Cumbernauld
Colzium
Denny
Greenfaulds
Croy
Kilsyth (New)
Kilsyth (Old)
Fireclay and Limeworks
Castlecary Viaduct
Netherwood Siding
Castlecary Curve
Lock 19 [FCC]
Lock 20 [Wyndford Lock] [FCC]
Abronhill Tunnel
Lock 18 [FCC]
Castlecary Fireclay Works
Coneypark Colliery Pit No 4
Cannerton Brickworks
Banknock Colliery Livingstone Pit
Tourist/other
Castlecary Roman Fort
Bankier Quay
Bankier Distillery
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /  /1904John G Stein
Opens new brickworks at Castlecary to use higher alumina content, than Bonnybridge, found there. Built by the Caledonian Railway and the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
10/12/1937Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
35 are killed in a train crash at Castlecary when an Edinburgh to Glasgow express struck the rear of a Dundee to Glasgow. This was the worst crash in the London and North Eastern Railway's history.
09/09/1960Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
A signalling error leads to a collision at Castlecary.
29/09/1968Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Collision at Castlecary.

News items

10/12/2017Memorial marks 80 years since Castlecary train disaster [BBC News]
29/08/2008Village memorial to rail disaster [BBC News Article]
22/01/2003Airdrie to Bathgate to re-open?

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Edinburgh's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

An Illustrated History of Glasgow's Railways

Central Glasgow 1893: Lanarkshire Sheet 6.10a (Old Ordnance Survey Maps of Lanarkshire)

Edinburgh ( Western New Town) 1877: Edinburgh Large Scale Sheet 34 (Old Ordnance Survey Maps - Yard to the Mile)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)

Edinburgh (Rail Centres)
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Guidebook (Auld Kirk Museum Publications)
Edinburgh To Inverkeithing.: including The Port Edgar, North Queensferry And Rosyth Dockyard Branches. (Scottish Main Lines.)

Edinburgh Waverley

Edinburgh Waverley Station Through Time
Edinburgh's Transport: The Early Years v. 1
Glasgow Stations

Glasgow's Last Days of Steam

Haymarket Motive Power Depot Edinburgh: A History of the Depot, Its Work and Locomotives, 1842-2010

Landranger (66) Edinburgh, Penicuik & North Berwick (OS Landranger Map)

Last Trains: Edinburgh and South East Scotland v. 1

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

Memories of Steam from Glasgow to Aberdeen

On Either Side, 1939: The Train between London King's Cross & Edinburgh Waverley, Fort William, Inverness & Aberdeen (Old House)

Rails Around Glasgow

The Next Stop: Inverness to Edinburgh, station by station

This Magnificent Line (the story of the Edinburgh-Glasgow Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian