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half a mile farther on, crosses the
Edinburgh and Glasgow road by Airdrie, at the same point this road crosses the Monkland Canal by the Coat Bridge. This is nine miles from the Cross at Glasgow, and two miles west of Airdrie. From this point the line continues nearly due north for a quarter of a mile, and here a small branch goes off eastwards about three-fourths of a mile, to the Colliery of Kipps . The line then advances northwards for about a mile, passing to the east of Gartsherrie Coal and Iron Works, and on to Gargill Colliery, where it turns nearly north for two miles; and turning again to the north-westwards with several turns till it reaches the canal opposite Kirkintilloch.
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must be wrong. Martin says that there was a stationary engine in 1836 for the accommodation of the traffic coming from the Wishaw
Railway, and quotes accounts for the purchase of winding apparatus and ropes. This must have been to rope-haul trains coming from the south up to what became Sunnyside Junction, from the level crossing at Bank Street. There is a "Howes Basin" immediately south-west of the Sunnyside Junction location on the 1864 Ordnance Survey Map. As trains to Leaend stopped at The Howes, it must have been at the junction where the M&KR main line and the Kipps branch diverged.
277:, built to a gauge of 4 ft 8½ in. The convention for specifying gauge had not settled down at this early date; as late as 1845 Captain Coddington of the Railway Inspectorate was describing another railway and wrote: "Gauge of rails 4 ft 8½ in from centre of rail to centre of rail, and 4 feet 6 inches from inside to inside of rail." and it is not impossible that Grainger intended to imitate the Stockton line but mistook the parameter. Whatever the reason, he inadvertently caused huge disadvantage to the M&KR and several other coal railways in Central Scotland.
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track gauge was altered. On 28 July 1847 the service resumed, now running through to
Glasgow Queen Street. On 1 December 1847 the service was diverted to Glasgow over the Garnkirk line from Gartsherrie, but on 10 December 1849 it was reverted to Queen Street. A connecting service was run southwards to Cairnhill Bridge, but this was shortened back to terminate at Whifflat (now called Whifflet) on 1 December 1850. The whole passenger service was suspended on 10 December 1851. A passenger service was reinstated from Glasgow Buchanan Street to Airdrie Hallcraig Street in August 1852.
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proportionate to fares charged over the G&GR to
Glasgow, and undercutting the E&GR's own fares); in November the E&GR gave notice that it would charge the full rate for its portion of the journey. This meant that the fares were now equal to much longer journeys on the M&KR itself, so the M&KR transferred the train service back to the G&GR route from 1 December 1847. However they returned to the Bishopbriggs route from 10 December 1849. It ran until 10 December 1851, from when it was discontinued.
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single lines, one for steam traction and one for horses; the M&KR said that the drivers of horses had been "taking off their horses and allowing their waggons to come in contact and collision with the steam carriages". Tennent demanded conversion to ordinary double track working, and there was much manoeuvring in the parliamentary stages. Finally the M&KR got its way, retaining segregation of horse and locomotive haulage, and the M&KR got its act of
Parliament, the
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Glasgow Railway to Townhead. The journey time was four hours or more. The Union Canal basin was not in the centre of Edinburgh, and there were three rope-worked inclines on the route. The stage coach journey time was similar. At first a success, the passenger traffic soon waned, and the opening of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway in 1842 put an end to it. None of the stations is referred to in the 1843 Bradshaw or the 1850 Bradshaw
1169:(GG&CR), and allying itself more closely with the Wishaw and Coltness Railway (W&CR) to the south. At this time, promoters were forwarding the idea of a railway from Carlisle, connecting with the developing English network, and they needed a route from the Southern Uplands into Glasgow. This was neatly provided by the W&CR and the GG&CR, who now transformed from coal railways to elements of an intercity main line.
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mineral siding running eastward from the level crossing location to a pit and iron works near the present day
Coatbank Street roundabout. When the main line was reconstructed, a new connection to the siding was formed from a junction a short distance further south, and a Sheepford goods station was provided. There was an extension to Rochsholloch Iron works and a tube works.
987:. The first railway coach constructed in Scotland for the conveyance of passengers, made a trial journey in the neighbourhood of Airdrie on Tuesday. It is dragged by one horse, and is to ply on the Kirkintilloch Railway, in carrying passengers to boats on the canal. It is meant to carry 24 passengers, but started in high style with no less than forty, within and without.
1237:. This enabled a much more direct passenger access from the Monklands area to Glasgow, and a through route from Edinburgh to Glasgow, on an east-west axis and running briefly over the M&KR route. Trains on the north-south axis, from Motherwell towards Stirling, used the short section of the M&KR route between Gartsherrie and Garnqueen as already described.
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onto hard standing, not necessarily to siding tracks, and the arrangement avoided two transshipments of the material carried. In
December 1835 the M&KR expended £81 for new wagons and for cutting rails, i.e. making the approach to the loading point at Kirkintilloch. In 1836 the "coal waggon boat" earned £540.
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there. The
Caledonian used a short section of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch route, between Gartsherrie and Garnqueen South Junction, to get access to its onward route. In later decades the traffic from Motherwell to Perth adopted this route, and in the twentieth century, Caledonian express passenger
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This competitive disadvantage was equally keenly felt by the other coal railways with which the M&K collaborated—the
Ballochney and Slamannan companies. They decided that their interests lay in collaboration, and they formed a joint working arrangement from 29 March 1845. In 1844 the M&KR had
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It was taken from the workshop, Hill Street, on Tuesday morning, and being started on the railway below Chryston, it passed several miles along the railway, sometimes going at the rate of fifteen miles per hour (24 km/h), although the company's engines are not required to move, when loaded, at a
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to carry railway wagons. The plan was to load wagons from the M&KR for onward conveyance to any point on the Canal; as well as factory sidings this apparently included transfer to seagoing vessels at Grangemouth, and possibly Bowling. At small locations, individual wagons were probably manoeuvred
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The line crossed Main Street and Bank Street on the level at what is now the roundabout for Sunnyside Street, a little to the east of the later high level line, now which crosses Bank Street on a bridge. The canal passes under the road at this point. The level crossing at this important road junction
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Priestley said that the fall from Palacecraig to the canal was 133 feet 11 inches (40.82 m), and from Kipps Colliery to the canal of 161 feet 3 inches (49.15 m). Gradients were moderate, with the steepest on the main line being 1 in 120 to the east of Bedlay, and 1 in 80
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A group of interested businessmen promoted the Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway to link the coal pits and iron works to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch. If coal and minerals were transshipped there, they could reach not only Glasgow, escaping the monopoly of the Monkland Canal but also
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had opened in 1794, and provided a considerable stimulus to the coalpits in Monkland, and early iron workings were encouraged also. However, before the era of a proper road network, the canal had a virtual monopoly of transport, and it set its prices accordingly; so successful was its exploitation of
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The M&KR altered its track gauge to standard on 26 and 27 July 1847, and on the following day the Airdrie service was able to run through to Glasgow (Queen Street) via Bishopbriggs; the journey now took 45 minutes. There must have been a lower scale of fares over the E&GR portion (presumably
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The success of mineral railways throughout Great Britain was apparent, and before the M&KR was opened, businessmen in Glasgow were proposing a direct railway: after all, transport over the M&KR involved transshipment to canal at Kirkintilloch, and was by no means direct. Support for the idea
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The railway commences at Palacecraig and Cairnhill Collieries about a mile south-west of Airdrie, and nine or ten miles east of Glasgow in a straight line. From this point it runs about a mile westwards, passing close to the north of the Calder Iron Works; it then turns to the north-west, and about
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Passing through Coatbridge, the line crossed Main Street and Bank Street at their junction by a level crossing. This was an exceedingly inconvenient arrangement, and in 1871 the Monkland Railways built the line at a higher level, crossing Bank Street by a large lattice iron bridge. There had been a
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The Monkland and Kirkintilloch line found itself left behind; it had a track gauge that prevented through working with the developing networks; to convey minerals to Glasgow, it relied on either transshipment to a canal or transfer to another line (the G&GR); to get to Edinburgh was even worse:
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There was a passenger service from Airdrie Hallcraig Street to Kirkintilloch (the exchange station on the E&GR) from 26 December 1844. There was a connecting service from Kirkintilloch to Kirkintilloch Basin until 23 March 1846. The main passenger service was suspended on 26 July 1847 while the
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On 1 June 1831 a passenger service was run from Airdrie Leaend to the Howes (in Coatbridge) and on to Gargill. This was later extended to Glasgow Townhead over the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, operated in collaboration with that line. There was a short lived connecting service about this time from
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When the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway opened its line, it operated a service between Leaend and its Townhead terminus in Glasgow, running over part of the Ballochney Railway and the M&KR Kipps branch, and calling at The Howes in Coatbridge. There were four trains each way daily. As the M&KR
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A branch was opened in 1837 from Whifflat Junction (the present spelling is Whifflet) to Rosehall, passing through a short tunnel. There was a colliery there, and several tramways were built to connect pits in the area to the M&KR. The line was leased for 30 years from Whit Sunday 1838 to Addie
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used the hearing to press for an altered method of working. The M&KR was operating between The Howes (Coatbridge) and Gargill with locomotives; the G&GR was permitting hauliers to operate with horse traction, continuing on to the M&KR. The M&KR had been operating this section as two
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In 1959 the two connections to the E&GR main line (at Lenzie and Waterside Junction) closed. The Sheepford section had already shut down in 1951, and the Bothwell line closed in 1955. The Cairnill and Palacecraig section closed by the 1950s. On 2 April 1966 the main line to Kirkintilloch Basin
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There does not seem to have been much attempt at passenger business in later years, nor on the Kirkintilloch main line. However, on and from 26 December 1844, four trains ran each way daily from the Hallcraig Street station at Airdrie (newly opened on the Ballochney line) to an exchange station at
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The opening of the Slamannan Railway in 1840 gave rise to a brief inter-city passenger traffic between Edinburgh and Glasgow, by the Union Canal to Causewayend, thence by the Slamannan line to Arbuckle, and from there by the Ballochney Railway to Kipps, the M&KR to Gartsherrie and the Garnkirk
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The location of the early Coatbridge "Howes" station is especially difficult to determine, and it is not shown on any available mapping; when the M&KR opened, Coatbridge was not yet an established community. At times it was called "The Howes", or just "Howes". Cobb places it at Kipps, but this
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The M&KR operated successfully from its opening: revenue was £704 in 1826, £2,020 in 1827, and £2,837 in 1828. The price of coal in Glasgow fell markedly, as much due to the weakening of the cartel previously in force. However the bulk of coal arrived in Glasgow by the Canal—about 89% in 1830.
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The Garnkirk and Glasgow had originally been one of the "coal railways" but its management was more progressive and at first a close ally, it gradually became a competitor. It changed its gauge to standard a few weeks after the M&KR, and it opened its new line by-passing the M&KR in 1845,
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Woodley; the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway had a station called Kirkintilloch, by the modern Easter Garngaber Road; the M&KR opened Woodley station a little to the north on its line in 1844; connecting passengers would have had a 100 yards walk; but in the same year the M&KR constructed a
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When the second locomotive was acquired, the two units operated on either side of Bedlay tunnel which had inadequate clearance; horses were used through the tunnel. In January 1832 through working was started, the line having been doubled, and the tunnel opened out. The location in question is at
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In the first decades of the 19th century, the City of Glasgow had a large and increasing requirement for coal, for domestic and industrial use, and after the cessation of coal extraction from local pits, this was chiefly supplied from the Lanarkshire coal field, centred near Airdrie, in Monkland.
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The development of good ironstone deposits in the Coatbridge area made the railway successful, and the ironstone pits depended at first on the railway. Horse traction was used at first, but steam locomotive operation was later introduced: the first successful such use in Scotland. Passengers were
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on, running as far as Gartsherrie. The M&KR would not allow the locomotive over their line, so horse traction took over from there to Leaend. This service continued until 1843. Bradshaw's Guide shows, in a section headed Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, passenger trains from Glasgow to Airdrie,
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at Causewayend. While the promoters suggested that traffic would arise from coal pits actually on their line of route, the obvious objective was to convey Monklands coal to Edinburgh direct, by-passing the Forth and Clyde Canal and much of the transit over the M&KR. However a long route over
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opening, due to the heavy use of the line. In February 1830 it was reported that 5,320 yards (4,865 m) of track had been doubled, and that a further 2,000 yards (1,829 m) would be doubled during the subsequent Spring, and the decision was taken to raise the additional £10,000 of share
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The M&KR found itself straddling the centre of the iron smelting industry, but aligned and engineered for carrying coal to Kirkintilloch, and not connected to the developing ironstone and coal pits. This generated huge potential, but also considerable challenges as the needs of the dominant
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As technology and trade developed this relationship changed; the M&KR was a feeder railway, dependent on canals, and the G&GR, for onward conveyance; its locomotives were technically less advanced; and the G&GR seemed to flirt with extensions and alliances that threatened to cut the
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The G&GR opened in 1831, and at first relations with the M&KR were friendly; the G&GR was dependent on its mineral traffic originating on the M&KR. From the M&KR point of view, they had a wharf on the deep water Forth and Clyde Canal, reached by seagoing vessels, whereas the
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The whole length from Cairnhill Bridge to the Forth and Clyde Canal is ten miles and the fall about 127 feet. In some parts it is quite level, and in others runs with a gentle but variable declination. ... It was originally laid with a single line of rails and passing places. Ground was taken,
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built a short spur to transshipment sidings with the E&GR at Garngaber, a little east of the present-day Lenzie station. The inconvenience of the transshipment emphasised the fact that their now non-standard track gauge prevented easy transfer of traffic to the developing railway network.
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process of iron smelting. In the third and fourth decades of the nineteenth century the iron industry expanded hugely in the Coatbridge area. There were 17 blast furnaces in 1826 and 53 in 1843. The hot blast process consumed large quantities of local coal; the processes previously in use had
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In June 1831 there was a horse-drawn service from Calder Iron Works (on the M&KR) to Gartsherrie, connecting there with the Leaend to Glasgow service, and in the summer of 1832 the G&GR advertised a service from Cairnhill Bridge (near the Calder Iron Works) to Glasgow, and also from
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The opening of the Slamannan line did give rise to a faster passenger journey from Edinburgh to Glasgow, by canal from Edinburgh to Causewayend, and then successively by the Slamannan, Ballochney, Monkland and Kirkintilloch and Garnkirk & Glasgow Railways; the journey took four hours.
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The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway had been built as a north-south line connecting to a canal, and the other coal railways had equally obsolescent origins. For the time being the mineral traffic was dominant, but more direct access to Glasgow was required, provided from 1871 by the
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would use locomotive power. The M&K company decided to purchase a locomotive; it was designed by George Dodds, the company's own superintendent, and it was constructed by Murdoch, Aitken and Company of Glasgow. Locomotive no. 1 (as it was designated) was delivered on 10 May 1831:
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The joint working arrangement between the M&KR, the Ballochney Railway and the Slamannan Railway was working well, while the competitive pressures were increasing, and the three companies decided to amalgamate: they did so on 14 August 1848, forming a new company called the
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on contemporary maps; at this early date Coatbridge had not developed as a town, and the most likely location is close to the bridge where the Edinburgh to Glasgow road crossed the Monkland Canal. It may be the same location as "South End" referred to in M&KR accounts in
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The new company took steps to consolidate its business, building a number of branches to collieries; a longer branch to Bathgate and a new chemical works there; a branch to Bo'ness; and eventually the "New Line" joining Coatbridge and Airdrie to Bathgate direct, via Armadale.
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for the service. Also in December 1844, a horse-drawn passenger conveyance ran from Kirkintilloch to the Bothlin Viaduct, at the point of intersection, (i.e. over the northern extremity of the M&KR) for connectional purposes, but this seems to have been short-lived.
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As the first railway in a rapidly developing industrial area, the M&KR soon found that industry was springing up just beyond its reach. While some short branches and extensions were built (see below), other railways took the challenge and connected the new works.
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In 1846 the alignment around Sunnyside Junction at Coatbridge was altered. Gartsherrie Iron Works had been contained between the Monkland Canal and the railway, and the line was shifted eastwards, close to Sunnyside Street, to enable the ironworks to be expanded.
403:, opened in 1828, and running eastwards from the end of the Kipps branch to "that part of the Monkland Coal Field to the North and East of Airdrie". The Ballochney was dependent on the M&KR for onwards conveyance of the minerals, and relations were friendly.
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The same makers delivered No. 2 on 10 September 1831. These locomotives were of the "Killingworth" type, considered even at this date rather old-fashioned: Dodds had a conservative outlook and had specified this type in preference to the technically progressive
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opened in 1842. The local lines in Monkland could not transfer their wagons to those other lines and, operating with horses and technically primitive locomotives, on stone block sleepered track, they found themselves at an enormous disadvantage.
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At first the railway did not own wagons or horses to pull them, and independent hauliers operated over the line, paying the company a toll for the privilege. It was only from 1835 that the company started to acquire its own fleet of wagons.
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Coatbridge: opened 10 December 1849; closed 10 December 1851, on the M&KR line alongside the present-day Coatbridge Central station (which is on the parallel GG&CR line); when the M&KR main line was rebuilt at a higher level in
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Summarising passenger stations during M&KR days is difficult, and many sources are contradictory. In the earliest days horse drawn trains probably stopped wherever someone wanted to board or alight, without formal station premises.
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In 1837 the Company built a workshop for the locomotive purposes at Kipps. Locomotives Nos. 3 and 4 were made by the Company itself in 1834 and 1838 respectively. Locomotives named Zephyr, Atlas and Orion were operating in the 1840s.
273:), and as other 'coal railways' opened up in the area in connection with the line, this track gauge became established for their use. It is not known why Grainger chose this gauge. He must have been aware of the huge success of the
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c. lxx) for a substantial increase in its capital, to £124,000, "for the purpose of re-laying the line with heavy rails, and otherwise providing for the augmented traffic". In July 1843 further lines were authorised by the
129:, the first public railway in Scotland, and the first in Scotland to use locomotive power successfully, and it had a great influence on the successful development of the Lanarkshire iron industry. It opened in 1826.
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spur to exchange sidings alongside the E&GR at Garngaber and there was passenger exchange there also; (the M&KR and the E&GR had different track gauges at this date); the station was also referred to as
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Kirkintilloch Basin, open from 1828 at the northern terminus by the canal; closed as a passenger station by 23 March 1846; there was a nearby North British Railway station, opened in 1848, and which continued until
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The line is quoted to have opened in October 1826, but the section north of Gartsherrie at least must have opened during May 1826, although the earliest "opening" may have been for trial runs only. On 1 June 1826 a
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In the twentieth century the best days of the Monklands iron industry were past, and gradual decline set in, and the duplication of access to the remaining pits and works was damaging for the former M&KR line.
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In 1834-5 a basin was constructed by the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch on M&KR land; originally the transshipment point had been a simple canalside wharf. The new basin was opened on 28 February 1835.
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An Act to make, complete, maintain, and incorporate with the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Two improved or additional Lines of Railway; and to alter, amend, enlarge, and repeal the Acts relating to the said
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opened its trunk line from Carlisle to Glasgow (over the Garnkirk line) in 1848, emphasising the isolation of the M&KR. At the same time the Caledonian opened a route to Greenhill, to connect with the
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access was over the Ballochney Railway, with two rope-worked inclined planes, and then the Slamannan line, with another rope-worked inclined plane, and transshipment at Causewayend to the Union Canal.
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At this time the town of Coatbridge did not exist, and the reference is simply to the wooden bridge that carried the Edinburgh to Glasgow Road over the Monkland Canal, adjacent to the Gartsherrie Burn
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inches (38 mm) diameter; working pressure was 50 lb/sq in (340 kPa). The wheels were 4 feet (1,219 mm) in diameter. The locomotives were reported to have been very reliable.
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Other local mineral railways were constructed to access pits and works, and as the M&KR was located at the centre of the iron industry, they worked in collaboration with it, and adopted the same
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In 1895 a spur was opened from Bridgend Junction to Waterside Junction, enabling through running from the M&KR route northbound to the E&GR route eastbound, avoiding reversal at Lenzie.
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In 1833 the M&KR was seeking parliamentary authority for two new branches, and additional capital, the additional capital from 1830 having been used up. Operating methods were revealed when
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capital, authorised in the 1824 act of Parliament. Thomas and Paterson imply that this work was "making the line fit to receive" locomotives. The first locomotive ran from 1831 (see below).
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An Act for making a Railway from Palace-Craig in the Parish of Old Monkland in the County of Lanark, to the Forth and Clyde Canal near Kirkintilloch in the County of Dumbarton.
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the north-south line from Sunnyside Junction to Whifflet (although the section of route was rebuilt at a higher level to eliminate the level crossing at Bank Street in 1871/2
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Working together, they decided to change the track gauge to standard gauge; they got parliamentary authority, and effected the change together on 26 July and 27 July 1847.
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Calder Iron Works to Gartsherrie. In the summer of 1832 weekly services were advertised from Cairnhill Bridge and Clarkston to connect with the Airdire to Glasgow trains.
251:. c. xlix), with share capital of £32,000 and powers to raise a further £10,000 by additional shares or by borrowing. Construction started by contract the following month.
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The locomotive was the first to operate successfully on a commercial basis in Scotland. The M&KR expended £5,925 on strengthening the track for locomotive operation.
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Technical development in iron production had a massive influence in the Coatbridge area. Iron ores had been extracted in the area since the beginning of the century, but
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A Railway Carriage starts from Clarkston and Cairnhill Bridge every Wednesday at a quarter to 8 o'clock A.M. and returns with the evening train from the Railway Depot.
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however, to lay a double line of way and this has since been gradually carrying into effect. The expense of the original line was about L. 3700 (i.e. £3,700) a mile.
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294:"The Gartshearie Coal (from the Monkland Coal-Field) is now introduced for the first time in Edinburgh, in consequence of the opening of the Kirkintilloch Railway."
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Gartsherrie, at the junction with the G&GR, also known as Gargill; opened 1 June 1831; and closed 10 December 1851; adjacent Caledonian station continued 1940;
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The M&KR used stone block sleepers with Birkinshaw's patent malleable iron rails. At this early date the technology of rail configuration had not matured, but
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In 1834 another connection was made at Whifflet, when the Wishaw and Coltness Railway made a junction there, bringing pits at Coltness into the M&KR network.
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Goods Station closed north of Bedlay Colliery. That too closed in 1969 leaving a stub to Leckethill but in 1982 the line north of Gartsherrie closed completely.
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Passing through remote moorland with few mineral deposits actually being worked the Slamannan line was never a success, and the opening of the better engineered
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by an act of Parliament, dated 5 July 1865, effective from 31 July 1865. A day later (on 1 August 1865) the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was absorbed into the
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At the time the Monkland and Kirkintilloch line was being built, there was a huge acceleration in the rate of technological change, and the pioneer lines—the
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rails, rolled by machine to 15-foot (4.57 m) lengths. These were strong enough to bear the weight of locomotives, unlike the plateways (such as the
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to develop colliery access; this connected to the Rosehall colliery line near Whifflet, giving direct access towards the ironworks of Coatbridge.
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days (to cross over Bank Street and eliminate the level crossing), a station at the same location was opened in 1871 on the new high level line;
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was the first public railway to adopt Birkinshaw's rail; the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway was either the second or the third
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the eastward section from Sunnyside Junction to Greenside Junction, now part of the Glasgow – Airdrie line, electrified in 1960.
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The Howes: probably located at the site of Sunnyside Junction; it opened in 1831 and closed in 1851; also known as South End;
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Hammering, from Latin malleus, a hammer; note that malleable iron is not wrought iron, which is made by a different process
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Another advertisement dated 15 October 1832 announced that the Clarkston and Cairnhill carriages were "now discontinued".
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later carried, and briefly the M&KR formed a section of the principal passenger route between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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unpopulated terrain, ending in a rope-worked incline and a transshipment to the canal, seriously limited its potential.
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Ordnance Survey County Sheet: Lanark II.15, 1858; the realignment to enable lowering of the track formation is evident.
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At first, from 1 June 1831 this was a horse-drawn service, but a few weeks later the G&GR put a locomotive, called
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operated like a toll road at this time, there was nothing surprising about another business, or in this case another
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the situation that it "for many years yielded a dividend of Cent. per cent ... arising solely on its tolls on coal".
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Views of the Opening of the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway. Also an Account of That and Other Railways in Lanarkshire
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The smelting process also required limestone, conveyed at first by horse and cart from the Cumbernauld area; and
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1603:, dated 11 June 1845 in Parliamentary Papers Railway Department, Session: 22 January – 28 August 1846
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A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Volume 6, Scotland, the Lowlands and the Borders
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Ordnance Survey Map, 25 inches to one mile, sheet Lanark VIII.12, surveyed 1858 and published 1864
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Report by M&KR Management Committee to Shareholders, 1837 or 1838, quoted in
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Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain
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1928:, in Notes and News, Railway Magazine, volume 112, June 1966, pages 356 and 357
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The rails may have been laid in small quantities on some private mineral lines
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Bedlay, on a sharp curve immediately south of the Stirling Road, now the A80.
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In 1835 the Forth and Clyde Canal acquired a 14-ton iron boat equipped with
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A trial of a railway coach took place on 8 July 1828; it was reported in
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had secured a patent in 1820 for a T-section fish-bellied edge rail of
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1816:
Railway Passenger Stations in England Scotland and Wales—A Chronology
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1707:
A Chronology of the Construction of Britain's Railways, 1778 – 1855
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Taking the stations from north to south, they were as follows.
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quickly gained strength, and the direct line, to be called the
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Bradshaw's General Monthly Railway and Steam Navigation Guide
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It does not seem possible to determine the exact location of
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1908:, March 1850, reprinted by Middleton Press, Midhurst, 2012,
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This was described as following the regulations used on the
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greater speed than 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h) an hour.
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A Short History of the Railways of Coatbridge & Airdrie
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at Garnqueen South Junction and Gartsherrie North Junction.
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Report on the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway
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A Short History of the railways of Coatbridge and Airdrie
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Pamphlet issued by Grainger in September 1825, quoted in
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for lining the kilns and withstanding high temperatures.
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Map of route with contemporary canals and modern railways
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Fish-belly rails used on the Cromford and High Peak line
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There was also some extraction of iron ore in the area.
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was an early mineral railway running from a colliery at
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c. lxxix), with capital further increased to £210,000.
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George Buchanan, writing in 1832, described the route:
1462:, Strathkelvin Public Libraries, Kirkintilloch, 1995,
1460:
The Monkland and Kirkintilloch and Associated Railways
1489:
The Origins of the Scottish Railway System: 1722–1844
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Two very short sections of the M&KR line remain:
1007:, operating passenger trains over the M&KR line.
1831:, Andrew Reid and Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1914
1632:, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London, 1824
1553:, Strathkelvin Public Libraries, Kirkintilloch, 1976
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feet (1,372 mm) diameter, with 62 copper tubes
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The scheme obtained authority on 17 May 1824 by the
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Railway in East Dunbartonshire, Scotland (1826–1982)
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2343:Independent lines worked by the Caledonian Railway
1829:The North Eastern Railway—Its Rise and Development
1779:, Patrick Stephens Limited, Wellingborough, 1990,
1752:The Railways of Great Britain – A Historical Atlas
1246:Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway
1216:The Monkland Railways company was absorbed by the
2722:Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway and Dock Company
1100:Calder Iron Works; opened June 1831; soon closed;
2655:Independent lines worked by the Highland Railway
1818:, The Railway and Canal Historical Society, 2002
1729:, vol 2, published by Samuel Lewis, London, 1846
1279:Links to other lines and modes of transportation
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1491:, John Donald Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh, 1983,
886:were noted, and it had been announced that the
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125:, Scotland. It was the first railway to use a
1867:, Stenlake Publishing Limited, Catrine, 2014,
1754:, Ian Allan Publishing Ltd, Shepperton, 2003,
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1385:, Patrick Stephens Limited, Sparkford, 1995,
834:In 1839 the company secured authority in the
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762:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Act 1843
684:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Act 1839
643:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Act 1833
573:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Act 1833
243:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Act 1824
190:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Act 1824
3045:Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway
2817:Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge
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1777:Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies
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1615:David Octavius Hill and George Buchanan,
1583:, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1984,
554:Detail of the M&KR line in Coatbridge
3227:British companies disestablished in 1848
3192:Railway companies disestablished in 1848
1926:The Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway
1854:G&GR Advertisement, quoted in Martin
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1031:M&KR passenger services and stations
2727:Charlestown Railway and Harbour Company
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1440:Forth & Clyde Canal Company Minutes
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3177:Pre-grouping British railway companies
3085:Rothesay and Ettrick Bay Light Railway
3014:Glasgow, Barrhead and Kilmarnock Joint
2984:Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction
2777:Edinburgh, Loanhead and Roslin Railway
2415:Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction
1727:A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
1551:The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
386:Other railways, friendly and competing
20:
3222:British companies established in 1824
3182:Railway companies established in 1824
2772:Edinburgh, Leith and Newhaven Railway
2303:Lines built by the Caledonian Railway
2066:Historical Scottish railway companies
2025:Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway
827:Text of statute as originally enacted
748:Text of statute as originally enacted
627:Text of statute as originally enacted
399:First to follow the M&KR was the
155:; which in turn were absorbed by the
7:
3202:4 ft 6 in gauge railways in Scotland
2968:Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness
2918:North British, Arbroath and Montrose
2445:Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr
2192:General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour
1865:The North British Railway: A History
1844:Bradshaw's Monthly Guide, March 1843
1442:6 November 1828, quoted in Robertson
452:in 1842 dealt it a near-fatal blow.
3197:Standard gauge railways in Scotland
3050:Cromarty and Dingwall Light Railway
2682:Aberlady, Gullane and North Berwick
2513:Banff, Macduff and Turriff Junction
2242:Lochearnhead, St Fillans and Comrie
1430:, G Bell and Sons Ltd, London, 1914
1184:London Midland and Scottish Railway
1121:the point of intersection with the
507:railways developed elsewhere, they
265:It was built to the track gauge of
3024:Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint
2827:Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh
2015:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
1579:John Thomas revised J S Paterson,
111:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
22:Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
14:
2687:Anstruther and St Andrews Railway
2543:Inverury and Old Meldrum Junction
2167:Dumfries, Lochmaben and Lockerbie
2084:Glasgow and South Western Railway
1383:The Directory of Railway Stations
346:, with only 9 feet (2.74 m)
3172:Early Scottish railway companies
3162:Closed railway lines in Scotland
3080:Perth, Almond Valley and Methven
2252:Perth, Almond Valley and Methven
1188:London and North Eastern Railway
884:Liverpool and Manchester Railway
780:Parliament of the United Kingdom
773:
702:Parliament of the United Kingdom
695:
674:and Millar and worked by them.
591:Parliament of the United Kingdom
584:
254:The engineer for the scheme was
208:Parliament of the United Kingdom
201:
3212:1824 establishments in Scotland
2902:Newburgh and North Fife Railway
2862:Leadburn, Linton and Dolphinton
2609:Inverness and Aberdeen Junction
2435:Girvan and Portpatrick Junction
2287:Symington, Biggar and Broughton
2089:Great North of Scotland Railway
1709:, Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1983,
1370:Stockton and Darlington Railway
376:Stockton and Darlington Railway
275:Stockton and Darlington Railway
3095:Tranent to Cockenzie Waggonway
3070:Lealt Valley Diatomite Railway
2872:Leven and East of Fife Railway
2857:Kirkcaldy and District Railway
2832:Glasgow and Milngavie Junction
2664:Wick and Lybster Light Railway
2440:Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle
2227:Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire
1:
3136:Location of Monkland Junction
2948:Slamannan and Borrowstounness
2614:Inverness and Aviemore Direct
2518:Banff, Portsoy and Strathisla
2247:Paisley and Barrhead District
2207:Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock
2182:Dundee and Perth and Aberdeen
2172:Dunblane, Doune and Callander
1994:Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
1218:Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
1148:Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
1123:Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
539:Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
450:Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
157:Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
3187:Railway lines opened in 1826
3065:Invergarry and Fort Augustus
3009:Glasgow and Renfrew District
2963:West of Fife Mineral Railway
2953:Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway
2837:Glasgow, Yoker and Clydebank
2624:Inverness and Perth Junction
1310:Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
1293:Caledonian Railway Main Line
1067:; it closed on 26 July 1847;
957:Kilmarnock and Troon Railway
888:Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
414:Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
407:Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway
3040:Brechin and Edzell District
2938:Strathendrick and Aberfoyle
2742:Dunfermline and Queensferry
2584:Buckie and Portessie Branch
2420:Castle Douglas and Dumfries
2162:Crieff and Methven Junction
1323:Wishaw and Coltness Railway
1138:Losing the competitive race
3248:
2882:Monkland and Kirkintilloch
2634:Kyle of Lochalsh Extension
1798:, 12 July 1828, quoted in
1428:The British Railway System
1235:Coatbridge to Glasgow line
1197:
1093:Whifflat; (nowadays spelt
755:United Kingdom legislation
677:United Kingdom legislation
566:United Kingdom legislation
183:United Kingdom legislation
3004:Glasgow and Paisley Joint
2822:Glasgow City and District
2425:Dalry and North Johnstone
2395:Ayrshire and Wigtownshire
2272:Scottish Midland Junction
2262:Rutherglen and Coatbridge
2232:Leadhills and Wanlockhead
1978:Constituent companies of
878:Model of Locomotive no. 1
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3125:55.9244194°N 4.1414167°W
3060:Hagdale Chromate Railway
2933:Stirling and Dunfermline
2807:Forth and Clyde Junction
2802:Fife and Kinross Railway
2644:Sutherland and Caithness
2629:Inverness and Ross-shire
2385:Ayr and Maybole Junction
2312:CR Cleland and Midcalder
2222:Lanarkshire and Ayrshire
1179:Scottish Central Railway
497:4 ft 6 in
267:4 ft 6 in
163:Formation of the railway
96:4 ft 6 in
3019:Kilsyth and Bonnybridge
2928:The St. Andrews Railway
2707:Border Counties Railway
2697:Bathgate and Coatbridge
2375:Ardrossan and Johnstone
2217:Hamilton and Strathaven
2212:Greenock and Wemyss Bay
2202:Glasgow Central Railway
1312:at Gartsherrie Junction
3130:55.9244194; -4.1414167
2782:Edinburgh and Northern
2757:Edinburgh and Dalkeith
2752:Edinburgh and Bathgate
2563:St Combs Light Railway
2405:Bridge of Weir Railway
2332:CR Hamiltonhill Branch
2277:Scottish North Eastern
1599:Captain J Coddington,
1065:Kirkintilloch Junction
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546:Growth and development
492:industries developed.
470:James Beaumont Neilson
456:Industrial development
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3157:North British Railway
3075:Lochaber Narrow Gauge
2999:Darvel and Strathaven
2958:West Highland Railway
2852:Kinross-shire Railway
2842:Kelvin Valley Railway
2762:Edinburgh and Glasgow
2659:Dornoch Light Railway
2538:Formartine and Buchan
2450:Greenock and Ayrshire
2380:Ayr and Dalmellington
2099:North British Railway
2003:Constituent companies
1300:Forth and Clyde Canal
1222:North British Railway
1088:North British Railway
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335:on the Kipps branch.
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119:Forth and Clyde Canal
44:North British Railway
3207:Horse-drawn railways
2913:North Berwick Branch
2767:Edinburgh and Hawick
2747:East of Fife Railway
2737:Devon Valley Railway
2712:Border Union Railway
2498:Aberdeen and Turriff
2455:Kilmarnock and Troon
2197:Garnkirk and Glasgow
511:what had become the
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3090:Skye Marble Railway
3055:Dundee and Arbroath
2994:Dundee and Arbroath
2892:Montrose and Bervie
2812:Gifford and Garvald
2619:Inverness and Nairn
2475:Paisley and Renfrew
2297:Wishaw and Coltness
2147:Clydesdale Junction
2132:Arbroath and Forfar
1775:Christopher Awdry,
1426:Henry Grote Lewin,
951:patent 'malleable'
466:blackband ironstone
23:
2649:Sutherland Railway
2594:Duke of Sutherland
2568:Strathspey Railway
2548:Keith and Dufftown
2503:Aboyne and Braemar
2480:Paisley Canal Line
2470:Maybole and Girvan
2465:Maidens and Dunure
2361:Glasgow and South
2347:Callander and Oban
2327:CR Hamilton Branch
2237:Lesmahagow Railway
2187:Forfar and Brechin
2079:Caledonian Railway
2010:Ballochney Railway
1286:Ballochney Railway
1263:Present day (2008)
1174:Caledonian Railway
1112:Later developments
997:Ballochney Railway
880:
556:
503:) track gauge. As
401:Ballochney Railway
391:Ballochney Railway
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317:
32:Dates of operation
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2897:Mallaig Extension
2887:Monkland Railways
2732:Coatbridge Branch
2639:Perth and Dunkeld
2589:Dingwall and Skye
2370:Ardrossan Railway
2337:CR The Switchback
2322:CR Douglas Branch
2157:Crieff and Comrie
2142:Cathcart District
2072:Primary companies
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2032:
2020:Slamannan Railway
1987:Successor company
1980:Monkland Railways
1914:978 1 908174 13 0
1873:978 1 84033 647 4
1628:Joseph Priestley
1619:, Edinburgh, 1832
1487:C J A Robertson,
1317:Slamannan Railway
1207:Monkland Railways
1200:Monkland Railways
910:Robert Stephenson
832:
831:
768:Act of Parliament
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752:
690:Act of Parliament
649:3 & 4 Will. 4
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604:3 & 4 Will. 4
579:Act of Parliament
486:refractory bricks
434:Slamannan Railway
428:Slamannan Railway
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236:
196:Act of Parliament
153:Monkland Railways
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3232:Coal in Scotland
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2797:Eyemouth Railway
2599:Findhorn Railway
2577:Highland Railway
2491:Scotland Railway
2390:Ayr to Mauchline
2267:Scottish Central
2257:Polloc and Govan
2177:Dundee and Perth
2117:Aberdeen Railway
2094:Highland Railway
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