Uphall Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Uphall JunctionOpened on the Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway.
Description
This junction was east of Uphall and directly east of Camps Junction [NB] with which it shared the signal box (essentially it was the same junction but on the north side of the railway instead of the south). It provided access to the Hopetoun and Uphall Oilworks Railway.
The oil works line made a trailing connection to the eastbound Bathgate to Edinburgh line. There was a trailing crossover just to its west.
The oil works line had a headshunt alongside the main line and to the west an exchange yard (around six looped sidings) leading to a headshunt. From the headshunt the Uphall Oil Works was reached and, further north, a long countryside line reached Hopetoun Oil Works.
The M8 now cuts through the approach of the former branch to the main line. Uphall station's northern car park is on the site of the exchange yard.
Tags
Junction07/10/2020
| Nearby stations Uphall Dechmont [1st] Drumshoreland Dechmont [2nd] Bangour [Hospital] Livingston North Broxburn [1st] Livingston [1st] Livingston Mill Kirknewton Winchburgh Livingston South Almondhaugh Newpark Philpstoun | Uphall Oilworks Camps Junction [NB] Cawburn Junction Roman Camp Oil Works Roman Camp Shale Oil Mine No 6 Middleton Hall Sidings Cawburn Chemical Works Cawburn Shale Mine Pumpherston Oil Works Bangour Junction Holygate Goods Shale Mine Shale Mine Broxburn Oil Works Muirhead Canal Bridge |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
