West Calder

Location type

Station

Name and dates

West Calder (1869-)

Station code: WCL National Rail ScotRail
Where: West Lothian, Scotland
Opened on the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts.

Description

This is a two platform station. A stone station building still stands on the westbound platform. This is the best preserved station building on the line. Mei Hua Platform is based in the station building. There is a car park south of the station. The goods shed remains at the west end of the station, south of the line, in other uses. The lattice footbridge has been replaced with a modern large structure.

The goods yard was on the south side of the line, accessed from the west. Of the goods yard a single siding remains, used for railway maintenance. The signal box, opened with the station, was at the west end of the eastbound platform, replaced in 1889 and closed in 1981 replaced by the Edinburgh Signalling Centre.

To the east was Limefield Junction for the Addiewell Loop (Caledonian Railway).

To the west were sidings for the Addiewell Chemical Works, running out from Addiewell Oil Works Signal Box.

Tags

Station

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map




Nearby stations
Addiewell
Harburn
Newpark
Almondhaugh
Livingston Mill
Livingston South
Livingston [1st]
Foulshiels
Cobbinshaw [1st]
Bents
Livingston North
Cobbinshaw [2nd]
Whitburn
Bathgate
Bathgate Upper
Polbeth Mine Pit No 21
Polbeth Mine Pit No 26
Polbeth Mine Pit No 11
Hermand Siding
Hermand Quarry
Limefield Junction
Westwood Oil works
Gavieside Oil Works
Burngrange Shale Mine Pit No 39
Limefield Viaduct
Five Sisters Bing
Burngrange Viaduct
Hermand Oil Works
Harwood Colliery
Breich Oil Works
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.


Chronology Dates

  /  /1867Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Wilsontown and West Calder Railway authorised. (Not built.)
  /  /1873Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Wilsontown and West Calder Junction Railway authorised. (Not built.)
  /  /1876Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Wilsontown and West Calder Junction Railway further time to complete. (Not built.)
  /  /1879Wilsontown Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Wilsontown and West Calder Junction Railway abandoned.
01/02/2000Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway)
Derailment at West Calder.

News items

11/06/2018Investment in West Calder gives station accessibility a lift [Network Rail]
07/04/2018Network Rail opens new station footbridge at West Calder [Network Rail]
10/10/2016Scottish electrification suffers delays as NR withdraws planning application [RTM]
08/10/2003Trial of new timetable posters
03/06/2002Edinburgh to Newcraighall re-opened to passengers.
02/06/2002New ScotRail Summer Timetable [Railscot]

Books


Vanished Railways of West Lothian