Bo'ness railway station

• Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway

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The Bo'ness Railway Station is a railway station in the north of the Scottish town of Bo'ness in Falkirk unitary authority. In 1987 the plant was included in the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A.

History

The station was opened in the 1850s as the terminus of the Slam Annan and Borrowstounness Railway. It was designed as a freight station and served mainly the handling of coal from the Slam Annan around 15 km away on ships in the Firth of Forth. He was later also used for passenger transport. Towards the end of the 1970s the club Scottish Railway Preservation Society took over in the meantime abandoned train station and set up a headquarters. In the following years the plant to numerous building was extended, probably added from other historic railway stations in Scotland. A museum has been established. The Museum Railway Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway Bo'ness between Manuel and running outside in the winter months at scheduled times. Between Birkhill and Manuel they crossed on the listed Avon Avon Viaduct.

Description

The engine shed is from the 1840s and was previously installed in Edinburgh Haymarket railway station. In 1984 he was shipped to Bo'ness. The building was, however, reduced and of the formerly twelve vertical window bays are only eight available. Ornamented, cast-iron pillars with capitals carry the slate covered roof. The station building dates from 1887, from the village of Wormit in Fife. In addition to the ticket offices and shops and toilets are housed in the wooden building. The shoot distant urinal in the men's room is from Bathgate.

The mechanical signal system is controlled from a signal box of the Caledonian Railway. The elongated, wooden building rests on a foundation of red brick and concludes with a hipped roof. Composed of a cast-iron latticework pedestrian crossing was once on the Highland Main Line in use. He comes from the train Murthly, north of Perth. The office of the small, elongated warehouse is lit by gas lamps. The wooden building with a hipped roof comes from the Upper Station in Dunfermline. In the outer courtyard there is a gas lamppost from Falkirk, a crane from Musselburgh and a hub of Leith. From the cast-iron water tank, the water flows through underground Rohe for take-off point. It dates from the port of Grangemouth.