Cobbinshaw railway station was on the

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Edinburgh to Carstairs line sited near a village called

Woolfords Woolfords is a small hamlet in the Parish of Carnwath, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Woolfords is located on the road between Auchengray and West Calder, next to Cobbinshaw Reservoir. It was formerly part of West Calder in Midlothian a ...

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. The freight only branch line to

Tarbrax Tarbrax (Scottish Gaelic: "An Tòrr Breac" - meaning "the speckled tor") is a small village in the Parish of Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is at the end of a dead end road off the A70 road between Edinburgh and Carnwath. Tarbrax ...

joined here. The

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post for the local area was dropped off at Cobbinshaw, so local addresses then had Cobbinshaw as their post district, rather than the current West Calder.

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Disused railway stations in West Lothian Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1848 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966 Beeching closures in Scotland Former Caledonian Railway stations {{SouthLanarkshire-railstation-stub