Longridge Eastern Station | |
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General information | |
Location | Longridge, West Lothian Scotland |
Coordinates | 55°50′05″N 3°40′23″W / 55.834861°N 3.673048°W |
Grid reference | NS 953 661 |
Platforms | 1 |
Other information | |
Status | Disused |
History | |
Original company | Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway |
Pre-grouping | Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway |
Key dates | |
2 June 1845[1] | Opened |
April 1848[1] | Closed to passengers and freight |
May 1850[1] | Re-opened in a slightly different location |
December 1852[1] | Closed to passengers |
Longridge railway station[1] was the original terminus of the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway (WM&CR) that served the nearby village of Longridge in West Lothian and it was also referred to as Eastern station and was 8 miles 50 chains (13.9 km) from Morningside station.[2]
The first station opened as the then terminus of the line at Longridge in 1845 and was then closed in 1848.[1] The railway was extended to Bathgate on a different alignment that diverted the route to the north where a new station (55.833977, -3.673023), a simple platform, was opened in May 1850 but closed in December 1852.[1]
The W,M&CR at first adopted the standard track gauge for mineral lines of 4 ft 6 in (1,372 mm), often referred to as Scotch gauge. The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway took over the W,M&CR in 1849, the track gauge already having been changed in August 1847, from the now almost obsolete Scotch gauge to the generally accepted standard gauge of 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm).[3]
This made Longridge one of the few purely Scotch gauge stations to have existed as it closed before the gauge was converted.
The later Longridge station of 1850 had a single short platform that was accessed off the A706 Longridge to Breich road and stood just to the west of the railway overbridge.[4]
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