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14/04/2023 Hi-tech cameras to be installed at three West Lothian train stations will 'analyse movements of passengers on platforms' [Daily Record] The cameras aim to keep people safe and cut down anti-social behaviour. (Permalink) Bathgate CCTV Fauldhouse Livingston North Daily Record
22/02/2023 Laying track to Levenmouth [Rail Engineer] The re-opening of the 9km Levenmouth branch in 2024 will be the fifth Scottish rail re-opening in the last 20 years. Previous re-openings were the Larkhall branch (5km) in 2005; Stirling to Alloa (21km) in 2008; Airdrie to Bathgate (22km) in 2010; and the Borders Railway (49km) in 2015. (Permalink) Airdrie Alloa Bathgate Larkhall Levenmouth Line Levenmouth: Looking south from the Bawbee Bridge, over the site for the new Levenmouth station, on 26 October 2022. Bill Roberton 26/10/2022 Caldercruix: With Main Street road bridge now reopened and the surrounding streets almost back to normal the 12.03 train to Helensburgh Central pulls into the westbound platform at Caldercruix on 7 March 2011, som ... John Furnevel 07/03/2011 Alloa: A train from Glasgow via Stirling arrives at Alloa station on 19 May 2008, the first day of public service on the recently reopened line. Ewan Crawford 19/05/2008 Rail Engineer
04/07/2021 Train services facing disruption as heavy rain causes flooding on tracks [Glasgow Live] ScotRail has reported significant flooding on several routes including Clydebank and Edinburgh. (Permalink) Bathgate Cancellations Dalmuir Flooding Flooding Glasgow Live
23/07/2014 Extending and developing Scotland's rail network [Scotsman] Over the past 30 years, Scotland has been the trailblazer for re-opening railways in response to growing gridlock on the British road network. Scores of new stations have been created on the existing network north of the Border, and new lines now link communities which lost their services in the 1950s and 1960s - Edinburgh to Bathgate, Hamilton to Larkhall, Stirling to Alloa, Bathgate to Airdrie and several suburban routes in Glasgow. (Permalink) Airdrie-Bathgate Alloa Bathgate Larkhall Levenmouth New station Re-opening Cameron Bridge [1st]: Looking west over Cameron Bridge towards Thornton Junction on 3 September 2010. No obvious change here - other than the usual impression that the Diageo complex seems to have grown larger since the la ... John Furnevel 03/09/2010 Earlseat Loading Pad: The first train out of Earlseat Loading Point on the Methil branch ran on 22 August 2012. There are now two trains a week, on Tuesday and Thursday, to Hunterston. 66140 leaves the site on 11 September ... Bill Roberton 11/09/2012 Methil: Methil station. NB 4.4.2T 67452 on branch train. G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 23/05/1949 Scotsman
27/10/2004 Longer trains for Bathgate and East Kilbride routes [Railscot] Six-car running on selected peak-hour services has commenced to East Kilbride and Bathgate. (Permalink) Bathgate East Kilbride RAILSCOT \| East Kilbride Line RAILSCOT \| Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway
22/10/2002 Flooding affects services [Railscot] This was a day of disrupted services. The North Berwick Line flooded, there was a track defect at Gartshore and flooding between Linlithgow and Edinburgh Haymarket (Edinburgh to Glasgow line), flooding at Inverkeithing, a landslide between Aberdeen and Stonehaven, and flooding of the Bathgate line. The East Coast Main Line was closed between Edinburgh and Berwick. (Permalink) Bathgate Flood Gartshore Loops Inverkeithing Landslide Linlithgow North Berwick Stonehaven RAILSCOT \| North Berwick Branch BBC Website (Includes picture of flooded North Berwick station).