Disused railway lines and closed stations in Falkirk

91 miles of disused railway
15 closed stations
5 stations open today
24 named lost lines

Falkirk has 91 miles of disused railway and 15 closed stations, against 5 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 3.0 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Slamannan Branch, with 10 miles of its route inside Falkirk.

See Falkirk’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 91 miles of lost railway in Falkirk break down as 74 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 17 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in Falkirk

24 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside Falkirk; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Slamannan Branch	10
Blackbraes Branch	5.8
Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Branch	4.8
Denny Branch	3.0
Redding Colliery	2.3
Strathavon Branch	2.3
Ingliston Branch	1.9
Bowhouse Branch	1.4
Grangemouth Oil Terminal	1.4
Candie & Redford Colliery	1.2
Camelon Branch	1.1
North Monkland Branch	1.0
Shieldhill Colliery	1.0
Stoneywood Branch	1.0
Blackstone Branch	0.9
Manuel Fork	0.9
Bainsford Tramway	0.8
Bo'ness Branch	0.7
BP Chemical Sidings	0.6
Grangemouth Docks	0.4
Hillhead Coal Pit	0.4
Old Canal Tramway	0.4
Birkhill Mine	0.3
Denny South Fork	0.3

Closed railway stations in Falkirk

All 15 closed and former stations in Falkirk, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in Falkirk

5 stations in Falkirk still have a train service. The busiest are Larbert (812,100 a year), Falkirk High (773,200 a year), Polmont (696,294 a year), Falkirk Grahamston (611,856 a year) and Camelon (165,762 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

West Lothian, Clackmannanshire, North Lanarkshire, Stirling, Fife and Scottish Borders.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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