Redding Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Redding Signal BoxOpened on the Shieldhill and Redding Collieries Railway.
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.
Description
This box controlled access to the Shieldhill and Redding Collieries Railway, a private mineral line.
The line ran south from Redding Signal Box, just west of Polmont Junction, to reach various collieries.
Redding Colliery Pit No 23 and its sidings were on the south side of the line and right next to junction. The signal box was on the north side of the line. Also served was the Westquarter Explosives Works.
Due to the steep ground to be climbed just south of the junction with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway the line used a series of zig-zags to gain height. Close to the junction a swing bridge brought the line over the Union Canal.
Tags
Junction signal box01/06/2019
| Nearby stations Polmont Thornbridge Halt Falkirk High Falkirk Grahamston Grangemouth Bowhouse Falkirk Camelon [1st] Camelon [1st] Causewayend [MR] [1st] Causewayend [SR] Birkhill Blackston Junction Manuel Causewayend [MR] [2nd] Camelon | Redding Colliery Pit No 23 Westquarter Explosives Works Westquarter Explosives Works [Expansion] Polmont Goods Polmont Grain Silo Polmont Shed Redding Coke Ovens Polmont Power Box Laurieston Mineral Depot Polmont Junction Shieldhill Colliery Pit No 1 Shieldhill Colliery Pit No 1 Tourist/other Westquarter Dovecot Polmont West Signal Box Callendar House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
