This was the junction between the 1886 Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) and the 1865 Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway). The Airdrie line extended the existing railway east to Airdrie [CR] and was approached from the east. This was a double track junction. The signal box was on the south side of the line.
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This was an island platform station elevated above street level and crossing over Whifflet Lower (to the west) and Whifflet [NB] (to the east), and Coatbank Street. Much of the station still exists, increasingly overgrown. From the east end the embankment and bridges have been removed.
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This was a two platform station with a goods yard approached by a very long siding from the west to the north of it. This same goods branch served the Union Tube Works. The main station building was on the westbound platform. The line was on a raised embankment.
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This disused six span double track girder viaduct, also known as the Calder Viaduct, is east of Calder station and west of Cairnhill Junction. It is around 375 feet long. The viaduct formerly crossed over the Monkland Canal immediately east of the Sheepford Locks. Also known as the Calder Viaduct or Lock Street Viaduct.
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This was a junction in Airdrie, the western apex of a triangle of lines. To the west the line ran west to Whifflet Upper, to the north it approached the Airdrie [CR] terminus via Airdrie Junction, and to the east it divided at Gartness Junction to run east Gartness Colliery and south east to Chapelhall. The lines opened in 1886/7.
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This junction was to the south of Airdrie [CR] terminus station on the Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) which opened in 1886 between Whifflet Upper (Rosehall Junction) and Newhouse (Legbrannock Branch Junction). This junction was at the northern apex of a triangle of junctions formed with Cairnhill Junction to the west and Gartness Junction to the south.
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This was the finest station in Airdrie, a large terminus with a glazed trainshed covering two platforms - two faces of an island platform - and a circulating area. The trainshed was supported on two walls to either side of the platform. The northern part of the walls was stone, continuing in timber for some way. There was a goods yard to the east. The station was to the south of Graham Street and ...

This was the finest station in Airdrie, a large terminus with a glazed trainshed covering two platforms - two faces of an island platform - and a circulating area. The trainshed was supported on two walls to either side of the platform. The northern part of the walls was stone, continuing in timber for some way. There was a goods yard to the east. The station was to the south of Graham Street and ...

Airdrie Shed [CR] was originally a wooden shed with two roads, 42ft turntable and coal stage opened south of the Airdrie [CR] terminus. It was a sub-shed of Dawsholm Shed.
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This junction was to the south of Airdrie [CR] terminus station on the Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) which opened in 1886 between Whifflet Upper (Rosehall Junction) and Newhouse (Legbrannock Branch Junction). This junction was at the northern apex of a triangle of junctions formed with Cairnhill Junction to the west and Gartness Junction to the south.
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This was a four way junction and also formed part of a triangular junction. The junction was south of Airdrie on the Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) on a network of lines which opened in 1887. The lines were all double track at the junction.
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This junction was just west of Calderbank station. Here a single track line left the double track main line which then passed under the main line just to the east of the station and approached the Calderbank Steel Works from the north, meeting the works own line.
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This was a two platform station to the north of Calderbank. There was a goods yard to the south of the station, approached from the east.
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This was a double track girder viaduct just east of Calderbank station and west of the Chapelhall Iron Works.
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This was a two platform station to the west of the village of Chapelhall. The line north and west to Calderbank and Airdrie [CR] was double track. Going south east to Newhouse it dropped to a single track. The main station building was on the northbound platform with a waiting room on the southbound.
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This station had two platforms and a goods yard at south end, east side, approached from south. The main building was on the northbound platform. It had a loop on an otherwise single track line. The signal box was at the south end of the northbound platform
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This was a junction in Airdrie, the western apex of a triangle of lines. To the west the line ran west to Whifflet Upper, to the north it approached the Airdrie [CR] terminus via Airdrie Junction, and to the east it divided at Gartness Junction to run east Gartness Colliery and south east to Chapelhall. The lines opened in 1886/7.
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This was a four way junction and also formed part of a triangular junction. The junction was south of Airdrie on the Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) on a network of lines which opened in 1887. The lines were all double track at the junction.
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This was a four way junction and also formed part of a triangular junction. The junction was south of Airdrie on the Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) on a network of lines which opened in 1887. The lines were all double track at the junction.
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