IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Westwood, WEST CALDER, EH55 8PN
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to EH55 8PN by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (10 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Five Sisters Business Park
On the site of the shale oil works
Image: © Jim Smillie
Taken: 17 Apr 2021
0.10 miles
2
Short Tunnel under B7015
A railway line used to run here from the early 1940s to the early 1960s, transporting shale mined at Mid Breich Pits nos 1 and 2, a few hundred yards North of here, to Westwood Oil Works, a few hundred yards South. The short railway line ran under the road at this point according to contemporary OS maps. The tunnel is essentially just a bricked-up bridge, with a square hole cut into one of the bricked-up ends for no obvious reason. The bottles and odd bits of rubbish must have washed in through the hole during heavy rain; nobody would come here for fun, however desperate - the rain has also washed in a great deal of sludgy mud.
It is quite hard to make out in the picture - mobile phones still don't come close to proper cameras when using the flash - but there is a narrow opening after the lit-up section of wall on the right. This gives access to an identical tunnel, so presumably there were actually two tracks running between the pits and the oil works - the empties probably got sent back on a separate track. Both tunnels are around five and a half feet high and wide, and thirty-odd feet long - the other one is fully blocked off.
Image: © Ian Dodds
Taken: 18 Aug 2021
0.11 miles
4
Westwood Caravan Storage Park
And, beyond, Five Sisters Business Park.
Image: © M J Richardson
Taken: 25 Sep 2017
0.17 miles
6
West Calder from the air
On approach to Edinburgh from the west.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 30 May 2014
0.23 miles
8
Muck spreading
View over manured pasture to 'Five Sisters' shale bings.
Image: © Jim Smillie
Taken: 8 Apr 2009
0.24 miles
10
Five Sisters
The famous bing is now mapped by the Ordnance Survey with contours, just like a real hill.
Image: © Richard Webb
Taken: 1 Aug 2014
0.24 miles