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Larbert Junction
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Larbert Junction looking south from the steps of the signalbox.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2970.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Looking south at Larbert Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7293.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Southbound 477 at Larbert Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7294.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A local from Edinburgh joins the Scottish Central Railway at Larbert Jn.<BR/>(usual permission granted)<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1984]](/images/10000/10971.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert Junction looking south. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8353.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Eastbound DMU heads south from Larbert to Larbert Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8355.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A relaxed signalman watches a Glasgow - Inverness train accelerating past Larbert Junction in 1989.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/02/1989]](/images/52000/52664.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A 47 on an Inverness-Glasgow train approaches Larbert Junction. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/9000/9138.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![26 041 passes Larbert Junction taking the Edinburgh road with Menstrie - York/Kings Lynn empties. Access by kind permission of British Rail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1990]](/images/9000/9139.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert Junction signal box from a northbound railtour coming from the Falkirk direction.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1992]](/images/58000/58080.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Edinburgh to Dunblane new sprinter rounds the northbound curve before joining the main line.<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1993]](/images/11000/11154.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Clear road to Carmuirs East signalled south from Larbert Junction in July 1996.<br><br>[David Panton //1996]](/images/18000/18369.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Southbound 150 284 approaching Larbert Junction in July 1996 with an Edinburgh service. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/18000/18350.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![158 745 approaching Larbert Junction in July 1996 with a service for Glasgow Queen Street. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/21000/21537.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![158 720 heads north at Larbert Junction in July 1996.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton /07/1996]](/images/22000/22468.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![With rain clouds beginning to form over the Ochil Hills, a morning Dunblane - Edinburgh service runs through Larbert Junction on 15 June 2004. The train is signalled for Carmuirs East and Falkirk Grahamston.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/06/2004]](/images/42000/42372.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Southbound train approaching Larbert Junction in April 2006 signalled for Carmuirs East and the Edinburgh line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/8000/8850.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Looking south over Larbert Junction in April 2006. The Edinburgh line turns off to the left towards Carmuirs East Junction, while the Glasgow line continues down the bank past Carmuirs West box (in the distance) before passing below the Forth and Clyde Canal. The Falkirk Wheel dominates the background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/8000/8851.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Having almost completed the climb up from the tunnel under the Forth and Clyde Canal, a train from Glasgow Queen Street for Dunblane is about to pass Larbert Junction signal box in April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/33000/33413.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Shortly after leaving Larbert station in April 2006 a southbound train is signalled for the Carmuirs West and Glasgow route as it approaches Larbert Junction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/49000/49859.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A northbound service from Glasgow Queen Street passing Larbert Junction on the approach to Larbert station in April 2006. The line south is signalled for Carmuirs West Junction and the Glasgow route.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/50000/50195.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![An SPT liveried DMU southbound from Larbert Junction with a train for Glasgow Queen Street on 26 April 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 26/04/2006]](/images/58000/58388.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Train from Edinburgh passes Larbert Junction box heading north.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9132.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![In the distance are Carmuirs West box, the Falkirk wheel, a train from Glasgow heading north and closer Larbert Jnct box. A train for Edinburgh passes the fine sempahore which will be swept away when the box closes.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9133.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A train for Edinburgh passes a train from Glasgow by Larbert Junction box.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9134.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Stump of signal for leaving the Denny Branch - bottom right. Looking north at Larbert Junction by the trackbed of the closed Denny Branch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 06/05/2006]](/images/9000/9140.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Long shot of Larbert Junction box from the footbridge at Camelon. The golf course is Falkirk Tryst. <br><br>[Brian Forbes 19/09/2006]](/images/11000/11027.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert Junction alterations going ahead. The new trackwork is laid out in the field to the east of the junction. View looks south east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/09/2006]](/images/11000/11041.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert Junction alterations going ahead. The new trackwork is laid out in the field to the east of the junction. View looks north east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 22/09/2006]](/images/11000/11042.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Aberdeen train gets a signal check.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /10/2006]](/images/12000/12694.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Larbert Junction looking south. Note two things; the box is still open with its semaphore signals and note the new track layout.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/10/2006]](/images/11000/11682.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A 125 from Edinburgh runs north through Larbert Junctions new layout.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 17/10/2006]](/images/11000/11683.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Preserved A4 Pacific no 60009 <I>Union of South Africa</I> on the southern approach to Larbert Junction with <I> The Great Britain</I> on 10 April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/04/2007]](/images/14000/14459.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Shorn. Larbert Junction without sempahores. The box is closed but survives as it is given over to the Training Centre. Coloured lights prevail.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 10/05/2008]](/images/19000/19027.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Freightliner <i>Powerhaul</i> locomotive no 70005 takes a loaded coal train bound for Longannet past Larbert Junction on 22 April 2010<br><br>[James Young 22/04/2010]](/images/28000/28853.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![DBS 66067 has just taken the right fork at Larbert Junction on 20 May 2015 with a return empty working from Longannet power station to Hunterston coal import terminal. From here the train will drop down to Carmuirs West Junction before passing below the Forth and Clyde Canal. In the background a canal boat is about to enter the upper gondola of the Falkirk Wheel on the Union Canal, prior to being lowered to the basin of the Forth and Clyde Canal 115 ft below. <br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2015]](/images/51000/51378.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![Approaching Larbert Junction from the north on 20 May 2015 is DBS 66067 with a return empty working from Longannet power station to Hunterston coal import terminal.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2015]](/images/51000/51646.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![ScotRail 158782 drops down from Larbert Junction towards Carmuirs East on 20 May 2015 with a Dunblane - Edinburgh service. Over on the right is the route to Carmuirs West, also on a falling gradient in order to pass below the Forth and Clyde Canal, above which stands the Falkirk Wheel in the right background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 20/05/2015]](/images/63000/63421.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![With the location almost unrecognisable, this is 158867 coming round the curve from Edinburgh to meet the Glasgow line at Larbert Junction. Electrification is in progress and the junction box, latterly part of the training school, has gone. All three sides of the triangle now have masts, although not all have yet been erected and wires are not in place. This, I think, is as far as they reach for now. Bases for masts continue further and even onto the Alloa line and a smattering of masts at Larbert station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61088.jpg "Larbert Junction")
![A Stirling-Glasgow service at Larbert Junction on the curve to Carmuirs West. In the foreground is a remaining parapet of the former Denny Branch line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61376.jpg "Larbert Junction")
