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Drumshoreland Road level crossing

Parish:
Midcalder, Midlothian
Ownership:
Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd.
Opened:
1884
Closed:
post-1962

A single line of standard gauge rails crossing Drumshoreland road close to the road entrance to Pumpherston oil works.

A plan dated 1890 indicates that the line was intend to link to the North British Railway Camps branch at a point north of the works and forming a continuous route through the oil works linking back to the Camps branch. This through route is not shown on the 1895 OS map, instead the crossing seems to have served a dead-end siding on a waste tip.

  • Location map
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    Archive records

    • 143910. Agreement and Minute of Agreement between The Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd and the Calder District Committee of the Edinburgh County Road Trustees regarding permission to make a level crossing on, and erect a bridge across, Drumshoreland Road. Dated 1884 and 1885.
    • 143905. Memorandum of Agreement between the North British Railway Co. and The Pumpherston Oil Co. Ltd in which the NBR will install new sidings and connection with the Camps branch at the eastern side of the Works site. Dated 1890.

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