The Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway Information

The Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway has been developed since 1979 on a reclaimed site on the south shore of the Firth of Forth and now welcomes over 60,000 visitors aboard nostalgic steam and heritage diesel trains and through the doors of Scotland's largest railway museum every year. Several historic buildings have been obtained and re-erected to provide a traditional railway setting. Bo'ness station opened in 1981. The line was extended to Kinneil in 1984 and to Birkhill in 1989, where the Fireclay Mine was open to the public (closed permanently in 2013). From 2010 the passenger service operates over the extension to Manuel where a new platform was opened in mid 2013. The railway is a popular film location; recent filming includes Case Histories for the BBC in 2011, Ken Loach's The Angels' Share, Cloud Atlas and The Railway Man. The Museum of Scottish Railways at Bo'ness is three large buildings full of historic locomotives, carriages and wagons, as well as models, displays and photographs telling the history of building, operating and using railways in Scotland. The Museum is recognised by Museums Galleries Scotland as being of national importance to Scotland. Further details of the exhibits can be found on the Scottish Railway Preservation Society Collections Website.