Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway & Museum of Scottish Railways

EH51 9AQ Bo'ness West Lothian, Great Britain (UK) (Scotland)

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Facilities

The station has a Booking Office, Station Buffet, a shop and a Visitor Information Point. There is also a large free car park, a bay platform, a footbridge and a trainshed which covers the platforms. This is the eastmost station of the Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway, which is operated by the members and volunteers of the Scottish Railway Preservation Society.

The buildings in the station area were brought to Bo'ness in the 1980s, saving each of them from permanent demolition elsewhere.
Of these, the trainshed is the most important historically. It was originally built at Edinburgh Haymarket station, and was the original Edinburgh terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which opened in February 1842.
 

he station office building at Bo'ness was originally built by the North British Railway at Wormit, on the south shore of the Tay facing Dundee. This station was located on the Tayport branch, close to the end of the Tay Bridge, and opened at the same time as the second bridge, in 1887.

Bo'ness signal box is a standard Caledonian Railway structure. It was originally Garnqueen South Junction box, the location where the route of the Caledonian Railway Main Line, heading north, diverged from the route of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.

The footbridge adjacent originally stood at Murthly station, on the Highland Railway main line north of Perth.

The stone built goods shed and the Buffet/Shop building housing the Visitor Information Point are modern construction.

Being base of the SRPS's many operational fields such as railtours, steam and diesel locomotive restoration and maintenance and facilities for maintenance of the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway itself requires a sizable yard,
a diesel MMPD,
a steam traction running shed and restoration building (Romney Hut),
a coaling stage and water column,
a carriage and wagon restoration and storage building
and signalling stores among other facilities.

A new Display Shed between the MMPD and the carriage and wagon building was erected in 2011 to provide housing for railway artifacts that were previously left out in the open such as the Class 303 EMU "Blue Train" and the Class 126 Inter-City DMU along with various rolling stock and diesel locomotives which is open for the general public to view the artifacts stored within the shed.

A Visitor Trail public walkway from the car park at the southern edge of the site will run along its eastern boundary, to the Display Shed, and continue around past the MMPD and along the northern edge of the site, providing a new disabled-friendly access route to the Museum of Scottish Railways.

Museum of Scottish Railways

The Scottish Railway Exhibition is now called the Museum of Scottish Railways.

The construction dates of the wagons range from 1862 to 1963. Designs show 100 years of progress, from solid wooden buffers to self contained hydraulics, from no brake to air brake, from grease axleboxes to roller bearings. And yet throughout the period, the wagons remain small, to fit the railway infrastructure, and by the 1960's were competing for traffic with large articulated lorries!

The display includes locomotives, passenger coaches and wagons. Coaches on display include Scotland's only Royal Saloon, which was built in 1897 by the Great North of Scotland Railway, and both the Caledonian Railway coaches which were restored by the Scottish Region of British Railways in 1958. Scotland's oldest surviving wagon (a rectangular tank wagon) is displayed, along with numerous other types illustrating a hundred years of progress and a wide variety of cargoes.

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