Disused railway lines and closed stations in West Lothian

81 miles of disused railway
19 closed stations
12 stations open today
15 named lost lines

West Lothian has 81 miles of disused railway and 19 closed stations, against 12 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 1.6 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Morningside Branch, with 5.3 miles of its route inside West Lothian.

See West Lothian’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 81 miles of lost railway in West Lothian break down as 67 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable and 14 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 West Lothian

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

Line	Miles in county
Morningside Branch	5.3
Camps Branch	3.9
Blackstone Branch	3.8
Addiewell Branch	2.1
West Calder Branch	2.0
Armadale Branch	1.8
Woodend Branch	1.8
Bangour to Uphall Branch	1.5
Roman Camp Oilworks Railway	1.4
Broxburn Branch	1.2
Holygate Branch	0.9
Philpstoun Oil Works	0.8
Blackhall Junction to West Craigs via Shotts Line	0.7
Raw Camps Mine	0.4
Glendevon Shale Mine	0.4

Closed railway stations in West Lothian

All 19 closed and former stations in West Lothian, 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 West Lothian

12 stations in West Lothian still have a train service. The busiest are Linlithgow (1.1 million a year), Livingston North (1.0 million a year), Bathgate (938,148 a year), Uphall (488,056 a year) and Livingston South (370,340 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

Falkirk, North Lanarkshire, Edinburgh, South Lanarkshire, Stirling 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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