Bathgate

Bathgate is a city in West Lothian, Scotland, on the M8 dual carriageway 8 km west of Livingston. Nearby cities are Armadale, Blackburn, Linlithgow, Livingston, West Calder and Whitburn. Situated 3 km south of the historical Neolithic burial website online at Cairnpapple Hill, Bathgate and the encompassing place show signs and symptoms of habitation due to the fact about 3500 BC. Bathgate has smooth get entry to to the M8 Motorway thru Junctions 3A and 4, linking the town to Edinburgh, Inverclyde via Glasgow and Towns in among. The A801 links Bathgate to the M9 thru Polmont.

Bus Services in Bathgate are co-ordinated by means of West Lothian Council and are supplied basically through First Scotland East, SD Travel and E&M Horsburgh. Frequent and each day direct offerings exist to Falkirk, Westfield, Armadale, Blackridge, Whitburn, Fauldhouse, Torphichen, Linlithgow, Broxburn, Uphall, Newbridge, Deans, Livingston, East Calder and Edinburgh. Bathgate Railway Station is operated by using Scotrail and is served by way of eastbound services to Edinburgh Waverley and westbound offerings to Helensburgh Central through Glasgow, Milngavie through Glasgow, and Balloch thru Glasgow Edinburgh Airport is 21 km away.

The Union Canal, complete call the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal, is a canal in Scotland, strolling from Falkirk to Edinburgh, built to bring minerals, specifically coal, to the capital. It turned into opened in 1822 and became first of all a hit, but the production of railways, specially the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, which opened in 1842, faded its price as a transport medium. It fell into sluggish commercial decline and became closed to commercial traffic in 1933. It was officially closed in 1965.