Midcalder Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Midcalder Junction (1869-)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway).

Description

This is the junction between the Caledonian Railway's Carlisle to Edinburgh Princes Street main line of 1848 and its Edinburgh and Glasgow railway, via Shotts, of 1869.

The signal box was on the north side of the junction, opened with the Shotts line.

In addition to the junction the box also controlled access to the Oakbank Oil Works branch. This was on the north side of the Shotts line west of the junction. It ran parallel to the junction where there were several looped siding on the north side making their connection to the main lines just east of the junction. (The box was to the north of these loops).

The junction was crossed by a footbridge, just to the west, and now removed.

The box closed in 1981 replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.

Both lines are now electrified.

Tags

Junction
01/08/2019



Chronology Dates

22/11/1981Caledonian Railway
Midcalder Junction box closed.

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

Vanished Railways of West Lothian