Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway 2025
West Lothian
Almond Valley – Shale Oil Museum 2025
The museum tells the story of Scotland's shale oil industry, and how it shaped the life of West Lothian for almost a century. Big machines, delicate models, exquisite oil lamps, and a huge variety of other objects that illustrate how shale oil was made, and used. The narrow gauge railway, its carriages converted from old wagons, is hauled by an old diesel locomotive that spent its working life in an explosives factory.
Contacts
Operator: Almond Valley Heritage Trust
Address: Almond Valley Heritage Centre Millfield Livingston West Lothian EH54 7AR
- Telephone: 01506 414 957
- Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Website: View website
Open Days & Times
Daily 1000-1700. (Closed 25-26 Dec; 1-2 Jan 2026.) Visit website or facebook for more details.
Travel
- By Bus: 23
- By Rail: Livingston North / 3 miles
Facilities
- Parking
- Refreshments
- Full disabled access
There are relics of other local heavy industries and displays that explore many other aspects of local life. The classic Leyland tractor & trailer ride takes you on a trip around the outlying fields and allows you to sit back and enjoy.
The fields, woods and green spaces of the site extend for nearly a mile either side of the river Almond. At its heart lies the old buildings of Livingston Mill and the nearby Mill Farm which is home to all manner of friendly animals including three Clydedales horses. With imaginative play areas all around including the Paraffin Works with its pipes, tanks and furnaces of a Victorian shale oil works. There's lots to see and do, no matter what the weather does.
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