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Niddrie West Junction
All photographs of this location in date order.
![Looking west at Niddrie West Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/90.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![NB 256 <I>Glen Douglas</I> stopped alongside Niddrie West Junction signal box on 30 March 1964 with <I>Scottish Rambler no 3</I> during the leg from Bathgate to Dunfermline. <br><br>[John Robin 30/03/1964]](/images/49000/49981.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 47 no 1107 takes the direct route from Niddrie West to the ECML via Wanton Walls and Monktonhall Junctions on 4 February 1970. The train is the 1358 Bathgate Upper to Ripple Lane empty Cartic 4s.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/28000/28837.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 46 locomotive D186 accelerates away from Niddrie West on 4 February 1970 on the line to Millerhill.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/28000/28857.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 47 no 1764 with the 13.00 Granton to Prestwick oil tanks passes Clayton no 8608 on ballast hoppers at Niddrie West Junction on 4 February 1970.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/28000/28949.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Clayton no 8579 approaches Niddrie West Junction from Niddrie North in February 1970 with Edinburgh area trip working E18 carrying grain from Leith South to Gorgie. Despite the rather primitive <I>Leith General Warehousing</I> wooden bodied stock, this must surely qualify as a block working! The trackbed of part of the Lothian Lines can be seen on the left.<br>
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<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29055.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Clayton no D8608 shunts ballast hoppers at Niddrie West in February 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29089.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 20 no 8322 just west of Niddrie West Junction with a short train of track panels on 4 February 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29106.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 26 no D5311 takes the line towards Millerhill at Niddrie West Junction in February 1970 with the 11.40 cement empties from Irvine to Oxwellmains.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29218.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 37 no D6903 eastbound on the 'sub' approaching Niddrie West Junction with a fully fitted freight on 4 February 1970. The train is crossing the bridge over Duddingston Park South road, with the outline of Arthur's Seat dominating the skyline behind the locomotive.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29241.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![EE Type 4 no 266 approaches Niddrie West Junction with an unidentified fitted freight from Millerhill Yard in February 1970. The direct route to Monktonhall Junction and the ECML via Wanton Walls Jct is on the left and Newcraighall (Klondyke) Colliery stands in the background. <br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29325.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 40 no 284 passes the Niddrie West eastbound distant as it heads along the Sub towards Duddingston Junction with the 12.33 Millerhill to Craiginches (Aberdeen) in February 1970. This was booked as a class 7 express freight working but appears to be running as a class 6 fully fitted freight on this occasion.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29500.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 20 no D8120 approaches Niddrie West Junction in February 1970 with an unfitted freight from Millerhill, possibly the 14.56 to Mossend running early. This was booked as a class 8 freight but the headcode discs have unhelpfully not been deployed on this occasion. On the right are NCB internal lines and exchange sidings with the headgear of Newcraighall's <I>Klondyke</I> Colliery (production ceased in 1968) standing in the right background.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29596.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 26 no D5325 approaches Niddrie West Junction from Millerhill Yard in February 1970 with only a brake van in tow on what is probably an afternoon trip working within the Edinburgh area.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29687.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![D8120 approaches Niddrie West Junction with an unfitted freight from Millerhill, (possibly the 14.56 to Mossend) on 4 February 1970. Beyond and to the right of the signal box is the embankment that carried a section of the original 1835 Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway route towards Leith (closed in 1859).<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 04/02/1970]](/images/29000/29795.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![On 15 April 1970 No. 1992 is in charge of the 14.48 Glasgow FLT to Edinburgh FLT Freightliner service, seen here at Niddrie West Junction as it takes the spur to Niddrie North.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 12/04/1970]](/images/42000/42927.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A block working of cyclohexane tanks (with the obligatory barrier wagon marshalled between loco and train) passes Niddrie West Junction in April 1970 heading for Millerhill Yard. The headcode box on Brush Type 4 D1755 should have shown this as a class 6 rather than a class 8 freight - in all probability the crew hadn't changed it from a previous working.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/37000/37189.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Brush Type 4 No. 1797 takes the Niddrie South line at Niddrie West Junction in April 1970 with an unidentified southbound block oil train of Murco tanks. The direct connection to the ECMl is on the immediate right of the loco but a crew change was probably scheduled to take place in Millerhill Yard. The crew has obviously not yet come to terms with the then recently modified train classifications and should have been displaying 6 rather than 5E40, the latter now <br>
indicating an ECS working, which it clearly was not.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/37000/37807.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![EE Type 4 No. 256 takes the centre road at Niddrie West Junction on 15 April 1970 and heads for the ECML at Monktonhall Junction with a train of empty Carflats, which no doubt had originated at Bathgate. The train is thought to be a supplementary service run because of high demand for Ford vehicles which could not be satisfied by the booked return working (4S42 and 4E35) between Dagenham and Bathgate.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/41000/41492.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Brush Type 4 No 1765 eases the 13.58 Bathgate Upper to Ripple Lane empty Cartic 4s onto the Monktonall Junction line at Niddrie West in April 1970. Standing on the left is BR Sulzer Type 2 No 5067, the section ahead no doubt being occupied by another train - by 1970, the next open signalbox on the Sub was Morningside Road.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 15/04/1970]](/images/42000/42299.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Scene at Niddrie West Junction in 1970 as 5068 passes Niddrie yard with a freight heading for Millerhill. In the centre is the direct freight link through to the ECML at Monktonhall Junction, while on the right is the sub. Beyond the sub are the remains of the trackbed that once climbed to meet the former Lothian Lines route that ran north from Wanton Walls Junction heading for Leith. Niddrie West signal box can be seen in the centre background. Niddrie West junction has seen many further changes over the years since this photograph was taken [see image 50652]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/04/1970]](/images/4000/4546.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![In my experience class 50s were quite rare in Edinburgh but I did note the 12.15 cement empties from Viewpark Sidings (Uddingston) to Holborough (Kent) so hauled as far as Millerhill Yard on a couple of occasions in the autumn of 1970. This is no 414 passing Niddrie West Junction with the train on Tuesday 13th October 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/32000/32389.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![5303+5304 approaching Niddrie West Junction on 13 October 1970 with MGR coal empties from Cockenzie power station returning to Fife. The train is using the direct route from Monktonhall Junction on the ECML via Wanton Walls. In the right background class 50 no 414 is approaching from Niddrie South Junction on its way back to Polmadie, having deposited its Holborough bound cement empties in Millerhill yard [see image 32389].<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/32000/32724.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Scene at Niddrie West Junction on 13 October 1970 with Clayton no 8510 on trip pilot duty E19, coming off the line from Monktonhall Junction with an engineers train.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/33000/33169.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 37 No. 6839 passes Niddrie West signal box and takes the line to Niddrie South with a rake of empty 16t mineral wagons in October 1970. The train is thought to be the 10.15 Mossend - Millerhill Yard. It is definitely not the 11.38 Ravenscraig No. 2 to Carlisle Yard which reported as 8M16. In all probability the loco had been to Carlisle and back the previous day and nobody had changed the reporting number for this trip.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/33000/33263.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Class 50 no 414 returning light engine from Millerhill to Polmadie [see image 32389] is stopped on the approach to Niddrie West Junction on 13 October 1970. The hold-up is caused by class 26s 5303 + 5304 snaking across the formation with MGR empties from Cockenzie PS destined for Fife. Niddrie West signal box stands in the middle distance with the outline of Arthur's Seat just visible through the haze.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 13/10/1970]](/images/33000/33821.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Niddrie West signal box on 22 November 1970.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/32000/32045.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Niddrie West signal box, photographed on Sunday 22nd November 1970 [see image 34323].<br>
<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 22/11/1970]](/images/32000/32503.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Rolls Royce engined <I>Clayton</I> class 17 D8587 photographed just beyond Niddrie West Junction on the Millerhill line with a PW train c 1971. Running in parallel is the former direct route to Wanton Walls and the ECML, closed a short time later.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1971]](/images/19000/19442.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![D5302 passes Niddrie West Yard, Edinburgh, watched by the crew of NCB Lothians Area no 25 (Barclay 2358 of 1954) in the exchange sidings for Niddrie Landsale Yard in 1971. Beyond are vehicles belonging to the civil engineer who had taken over the sidings by this time.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1971]](/images/32000/32485.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![<I>'So... according to this ancient map, we should now be standing on the 'X' marking the precise spot where the treasure was buried..... </I> <br> Gaffers meeting at Niddrie West NCB exchange sidings in 1974. Shortly afterwards the sidings were rationalised and a hired BR class 08 shunter took over from the steam pugs. [See image 1071 for a pug in action at the same spot].<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1974]](/images/36000/36868.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Interior of Niddrie West Signalbox in 1976 [With thanks to Keith Bathgate, Donald Hillier and David Greig].<br><br>[Bill Roberton //1976]](/images/37000/37762.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![The diverted Birmingham train [see image 58378] has joined the main section of the South Sub at Niddrie West Junction. Another train hauled by a Class 37 loco is held at the signal possibly heading for Millerhill Yard. Arthur's Seat is wreathed in a summer haze in the background.<br><br>[Charlie Niven /07/1989]](/images/58000/58737.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Ah yes, I remember now, I got rather wet. A class 66 takes a freight past Niddrie West Junction during a freak rainstorm in December 2002 which lasted 8 minutes - exactly how long I stood on the bridge.<br><br>[John Furnevel 21/12/2002]](/images/2000/2950.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![EWS 66111 running light engine takes the line towards Millerhill Yard at Niddrie West Junction in January 2003. Arthur's Seat dominates the background. <br><br>[John Furnevel 12/01/2003]](/images/43000/43264.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Westbound coal empties coming off the line from Millerhill yard at Niddrie West Junction on 21 February 2003 behind an unidentified EWS class 66 locomotive. <br><br>[John Furnevel 21/02/2003]](/images/3000/3784.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A PW train takes the line to Millerhill at Niddrie West Junction on 2 April 2006 behind EWS 66122.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/7000/7590.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Second of the Hibs football specials destined for Kings Park approaching Niddrie West on the curve round from Brunstane on 2 April 2006. Given that Hibs Hampden opponents on this occasion were Hearts perhaps a little more thought could have been given to the livery of the train used on this particular service.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/7000/7592.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Looking west at the Edinburgh skyline as trains diverted over the sub meet on the bridge across Duddingston Park South road on Sunday 2 April 2006. Niddrie West Junction is in the foreground.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/7000/7597.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![An Edinburgh - Kings Park football special comes off the single line from Portobello at Niddrie West Junction on the <I>sub</I> on 2 April 2006, while a diverted Glasgow - Edinburgh train waits at signals for the section to clear in order to complete its roundabout journey to Waverley.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/7000/7600.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Eastbound track panels between Niddrie West and Niddrie South Junctions bound for Millerhill yard in April 2006. The one time route to the ECML via Wanton Walls Junction ran parallel on the nearside. [See image 29325]<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/31000/31981.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A Sunday morning Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh Waverley service diverted around the 'sub' due to engineering works at Haymarket tunnel on 2 April 2006. The train is at Niddrie West Junction running onto the single line section to Brunstane and Portobello to eventually enter Waverley station from the east.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/04/2006]](/images/50000/50652.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Rail grinding machine approaching Niddrie West Junction in April 2006 from the Niddrie South direction.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/04/2006]](/images/7000/7623.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![EWS 66048 brings a coal train through Niddrie West Junction in June 2006 heading for Millerhill.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/06/2006]](/images/9000/9703.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A coal train seen shortly after passing Niddrie West Junction heading for Niddrie South on 16 June 2006. On the left is the trackbed of the former direct route to the ECML via Wanton Walls Junction [see image 29573].<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/06/2006]](/images/56000/56925.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![PW train on the line from Niddrie South Jct on 31 March suffers a signal check on the approach to Niddrie West due to the volume of traffic using the <I>sub</I>. <br><br>[John Furnevel /03/2007]](/images/14000/14280.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Diverted westbound train heading for Bathgate crosses Niddrie West Junction in the shadow of Arthurs Seat on 31 March.<br><br>[John Furnevel /03/2007]](/images/14000/14296.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![158508 rounds the curve from Brunstane to Niddrie West Junction on 31 March 2007 on a diverted Waverley - Glasgow Central via Shotts service. <br><br>[John Furnevel 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14276.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A Bathgate bound train slows for the crossover at Niddrie West on 31 March while taking the diversionary route round the 'sub' from Waverley.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14279.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A ballast train joins the sub at Niddrie West off the Millerhill line on 31 March with 66085 at the front and 66191 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[John Furnevel 31/03/2007]](/images/14000/14297.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Track maintenance unit takes the sub at Niddrie West Junction on 25 May and heads along the single line section to Portobello.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15136.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![A track machine heads along the single line section of the <I>sub</I> between Niddrie West Junction and Brunstane on 25 May 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 25/05/2007]](/images/15000/15488.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![66154 running between Niddrie West Junction and Portobello on 29 July 2011. The locomotive had arrived at Niddrie West from Millerhill and is thought to be in the process of being turned on the Niddrie/Portobello triangle. <br>
<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2011]](/images/35000/35304.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![66154 crosses from down to up lines at Niddrie West on 29 July 2011 before heading for Portobello as part of a turning manoeuvre on the Millerhill / Niddrie West / Portobello / Millerhill triangle.<br><br>[John Furnevel /07/2011]](/images/36000/36424.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![66154 takes the 'sub' at Niddrie West Junction on 29 July 2011 heading for Portobello. The locomotive had just arrived at the junction via the line on the left from Millerhill / Niddrie South and then reversed! I'm obviously missing something. [2 emails received suggest that the locomotive was being turned on the triangle as a temporary expedient due to a technical problem affecting one of the cabs.]<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2011]](/images/35000/35042.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![An unidentified EWS class 66 is about to take coal empties from the Millerhill direction onto the 'sub' at Niddrie West Junction in July 2011.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/07/2011]](/images/45000/45222.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![D9009 at Niddrie West Junction on 6 April heading for Millerhill with empty stock from the Pathfinder Tours excursion from Crewe to Edinburgh. [See image 42627]<br><br>[Bill Roberton 06/04/2013]](/images/42000/42648.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![DRS 68002 takes the Niddrie North chord at Niddrie West Junction on 14 July with the empty stock for the Fife Circle service.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2015]](/images/51000/51971.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![GBRf 66732 passes Niddrie West Junction with a Carlisle - Millerhill empty ballast on 14 July.<br><br>[Bill Roberton 14/07/2015]](/images/51000/51990.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Survivor... standing alongside the footbridge at Niddrie West Junction - September 2017.<br><br>[John Furnevel 03/09/2017]](/images/60000/60803.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![GBRf 66709 takes the Millerhill route at Niddrie West Junction on 10 September 2017 with a trainload of spent ballast. The locomotive is in 'MSC Sorrento' promotional livery. Note the new housing development now occupying the site of Niddrie Yard [see image 4546].<br><br>[John Furnevel 10/09/2017]](/images/60000/60840.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![The 1031 Millerhill SS - Keith Loop, photographed running between Niddrie South and Niddrie West Junctions on 8 October 2017. Freightliner 66597 is at the head of the train of concrete sleepers, with 66952 bringing up the rear.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61094.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![Freightliner 66952 brings up the rear of a freight from Millerhill south sidings about to run through Niddrie West Junction on the morning of Sunday 8 October 2017. The concrete sleepers are destined for Keith.<br><br>[John Furnevel 08/10/2017]](/images/61000/61964.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![GBRf 66717 takes the right fork at Niddrie West Junction with a freight on 15 October 2017. The train is the 6K25 0730 Cambuslang - Millerhill SS ballast.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/10/2017]](/images/61000/61403.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
![66078 passes Niddrie West Junction with Dalzell - Tees Dock empty steel carriers on 20th February 2018.<br>
<br><br>[Bill Roberton 20/02/2018]](/images/63000/63000.jpg "Niddrie West Junction")
