Haymarket Trainshed, Bo'Ness

The Haymarket Trainshed, Wormit Station Building, Signal Box, Footbridge, Goods Office, Goods Yard, Water Tank, and Lamp Standards form a railway heritage area developed at Bo’ness, with work beginning in 1979 and the main line connection achieved in 1990.

The Haymarket Train Shed, originally planned and built by John Miller in Edinburgh between 1840 and 1842, was moved and re-erected at Bo’ness in 1984. This represents 8 bays of the original 12-bay structure. It features a dentilled cornice, fluted cast-iron columns with ornate capitals supporting an elliptical arched arcade with decorative spandrels. The north arcade is now infilled with boarding. The roof structure's tie rods are secured with ornate struts, with each truss apex incorporating a pendant anthemion. The shallow slate roof has late 20th-century smoke troughs.

The Wormit Station Building, dating from 1887, was also moved and re-erected at Bo’ness in the early 1980s. It originally served as a booking office, shop, and toilets and is characterised by boarded timber construction with polychrome brick details, full-height shouldered stacks to the southwest, an ornate canopy to the northeast, and a small cast-iron ‘NBR’ drinking tap with cup to the northwest. The building has a slate roof and decorative bargeboarding. The interior retains the original condition of the booking office and hall.

A 1899 Caledonian Railway (Southern Division) Type S4 signal box, relocated from Garnqueen South, is a rectangular-plan, piend-roofed timber structure on a red brick base. It features timber mullioned multi-light glazing to the first floor, with a cill shelf supported by metal brackets, deep eaves with boarded soffits and brackets fixed to mullion heads. The front elevation has two segmental-headed multi-pane windows on the ground floor and a nine-light window on the first floor. Access to the first floor is by a timber forestair. A rear outshot and a tall stack rising through the eaves are also present. A large semaphore signal gantry, mainly from Coupar Angus, is nearby.

The late 19th-century footbridge, originally belonging to the Highland Railway, is of cast-iron lattice girder construction and has been extended to reach the ground at each end. It was relocated from Murthly Station, north of Perth.

The Goods Office is a small, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed timber building, originally from Dunfermline Upper Station. It has a full-height polychrome brick stack and segmental-headed windows and is fitted out as a typical Victorian office with high chairs and gas lighting.

The Goods Yard includes a wooden gas lamp post from Falkirk High, a hand crane from Musselburgh, and a wagon turntable from Leith.

The Water Tank is a rectangular-plan polychrome brick structure with a decorative round-headed and astragalled window at ground level and a dentilled cornice surmounted by a cast-iron tank. An underground pipe leads to a water column with an individual supply for locomotives, and originates from Grangemouth Docks.

Finally, a variety of late 19th and early 20th century decorative cast-iron lamp standards, manufactured by the Bo’ness and Falkirk Iron Companies, complete the ensemble.