Fauldhouse
Location type
StationNames and dates
Fauldhouse (1869-1952)Fauldhouse North (1952-1973)
Fauldhouse (1973-)
Station code: FLD National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway).
Opened on the Fauldhouse Moor Branch (William Dixon Ltd).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts.
Description
This is a two platform station. There is a very small car park on the north side.
The main station building was on the eastbound platform.
The goods yard was not by the station, but further east at Fauldhouse Goods. Further east again the line passed over the Longridge to Bathgate (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway) and, beyond that, the Fauldhouse Viaduct.
To the west of the station was a branch to the Fauldhouse Colliery (opened around 1896). Access was controlled by Fauldhouse Station signal box, closed in 1904.
A Civil Defence Store was located just to the north of the station.
Further west was Benhar Junction at Benhar Summit.
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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| Nearby stations Fauldhouse and Crofthead Headlesscross Longridge [1st] Longridge [2nd] Breich Bents Blackhall Shotts Wilsontown Foulshiels Whitburn Haywood Armadale [1st] Westcraigs Blackridge | Fauldhouse No 1 Colliery Fauldhouse Goods Braehead Quarry Iron Mine Wellhill Cistern Fauldhousehills Sandstone Quarry East Badallan Colliery Iron Mine Fallahill Quarry Fauldhouse Viaduct Pit Iron Mine Benhar Branch Junction Braehead Colliery Pit No 1 Thornton Pit No 2 |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
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