Greenhill

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Lower Greenhill Junction (1848-1864)
Greenhill Lower (1864-1865)
Greenhill (1865-1966)

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Bonnybridge Canal Branch (Caledonian Railway).

Description

This was originally a two platform station. the platforms were on the Caledonian Railway's Greenhill Branch line from Garnqueen South Junction to Greenhill Lower Junction.

After the opening of the Bonnybridge Junction Yard and Bonnybridge Canal Branch (Caledonian Railway) (1886) it became a three platform station, a new platform face opening on the north side of the station making the northbound platform into an island.

The main station building was on the north platform, heavily canopied. A smaller building was on the southbound.

The connection to Upper Greenhill ran down the south side of the station, but was not served by a platform. There were no platforms on the Scottish Central Railway.

The Bonnybridge branch closed to passengers as long ago as 1933, but the station remained open until 1966.

Several variants of the name existed, including Lower Greenhill, in timetables of various companies.

Tags

Station

Aliases

Lower Greenhill
06/09/2020


Chronology Dates

02/08/1886Bonnybridge Canal Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Opened from Bonnybridge Junction through Greenhill to passengers to Bonnybridge [CR].
  /  /1897Caledonian Railway Scottish Central Railway
Widening of the railway at Greenhill authorised.

News items

23/02/2015Investigation after railway worker shot with air rifle [BBC News]
10/11/2002Line blocked by landslip near Larbert [Railscot]
10/01/2001ScotRail's 15min interval Edinburgh to Glasgow service restored

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Caledonian Dunalastairs and Associated Classes (Locomotive Monograph)

Caledonian in LMS Days (Railways in Retrospect)

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Carriages

Caledonian Railway Livery: The True Line Elegance and Style

Caledonian Railway Wagons & Non-Passenger Coaching Stock

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

Carlisle to Hawick: The Waverley Route (Scml)

Signalling the Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway 'jumbos' the 18in. X 26in. 0-6-0s

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian