Haymarket Trainshed, Bo'Ness

1979, work commenced at Bo'ness Heritage Area; railway to Kinneil opened 1987, to Birkhill 1989, main-line connection at Manuel 1990. Re-erected structures at Bo'ness Station imported from various sites across Scotland (see below).

FORMER HAYMARKET TRAIN SHED: John Miller, planned and built in Edinburgh between 1840 and 1842; moved and re-erected at Bo'ness, 1984. 8 bays of former 12-bay shed. Dentilled cornice. Fluted cast-iron columns with ornate capitals support elliptical arched arcade with decorative spandrels. N arcade now filled with boarding. Tie rods of roof structure secured with ornate struts, apex of each truss incorporates pendant anthemion. Shallow slate roof with smoke troughs added late 20th century.

FORMER WORMIT STATION BUILDING: 1887; moved and re-erected at Bo'ness early 1980s. Booking office, shop and toilets. Boarded timber with polychrome brick details and full-height shouldered stacks to SW, ornate canopy to NE and small cast-iron 'NBR' drinking tap with cup to NW. Slate roof and decorative bargeboarding. INTERIOR: booking office and hall in original condition.

SIGNAL BOX: (Map Ref: NT 00260 81749): 1899 Caledonian Railway (Southern Division) Type S4 signal box, relocated from Garnqueen South. Rectangular-plan, piend-roofed timber structure on red brick base. Timber mullioned multi-light glazing to 1st floor, cill shelf with metal brackets; deep eaves with boarded soffits and brackets fixed to mullion heads; 2 segmental-headed multi-pane windows to front elevation ground floor, 9-light window to 1st floor; door to ground and 1st floor at right return, reached by timber forestair. Outshot to rear; tall stack to centre, rising through eaves. Nearby large semaphore signal gantry, mostly from Coupar Angus.

FOOTBRIDGE: late 19th century, Highland Railway. Cast-iron lattice girder construction; extended to reach ground (instead of platforms) at each end. Relocated from Murthly Station on Highland Railway main line, north of Perth.

GOODS OFFICE: small, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed timber building with full-height polychrome brick stack and segmental-headed windows, from Dunfermline Upper Station. Fitted out as typical Victorian office with high chairs and gas lighting.

GOODS YARD: wooden gas lamp post from Falkirk High and hand crane from Musselburgh. Nearby wagon turntable from Leith.

WATER TANK: rectangular-plan polychrome brick structure with decorative round-headed and astragalled window at ground and dentilled cornice surmounted by cast-iron tank. Underground pipe leads to water column with individual supply for locomotives, from Grangemouth Docks.

LAMP STANDARDS: variety of late 19th and early 20th century decorative cast-iron lamp standard made by Bo'ness and Falkirk Iron Companies.