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Dates
| / / | Foulshiels Mine (Livingston) Owned by United Collieries. |
| / /1715 | York Buildings Company Acquire Edzell Castle and Dunnotar Castle for asset stripping. |
| / /1720 | York Buildings Company Buy the Callander estate, Falkirk. |
| / /1732 | York Buildings Company Declared bankrupt |
| / /1766 | York Buildings Company Properties of the company sold off to cover debts |
| / /1841 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Act receives Royal assent. The [Coltness Ironworks] owners, the Houldsworths, were major shareholders. |
| 05/06/1845 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Opened from Newmains to Longridge. Passenger stations at; Morningside, Daviesdykes, Blackhall, Headlesscross, Crofthead, Longridge. |
| / /1846 | [Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway] Act receives Royal assent |
| / /1846 | [Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway] [Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway] Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway absorbed by Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway |
| 16/05/1846 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] A passenger coach starts running from Longridge to Edinburgh to complete a Glasgow to Edinburgh route. |
| /03/1848 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Passenger station at Daviesdykes closed. |
| 09/08/1848 | [Muirkirk Branch GSWR] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Auchinleck to Muirkirk opened. The line served the [Lugar Ironworks], the [Muirkirk Ironworks] and various coalmines. |
| 01/11/1848 | [Basingstoke Branch] ([Great Western Railway]) Reading, Southcot Junction, to Basingstoke opened. Stations on section at: Mortimer, Bramley and Basingstoke. |
| / /1849 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] [Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway] Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway absorbed by Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. |
| / /1849 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Extended from Longridge to Bathgate. This line may have reached Bathgate before the [Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway], which formed a connection with it. |
| / /1849 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Closed to passengers. |
| / /1850 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Re-opened to passengers. |
| / /1850 | [Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway] Opened |
| / /1851 | [Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway] Under construction, also known as the Polmont Junction Railway. Roman remains found at Carmuirs. |
| /12/1852 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Closed to passengers. Blackhall, Headlesscross, Crofthead and Longridge closed. |
| / /1860 | Westwood Pit (Livingston) Opened for shale |
| 01/10/1864 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Line extended to Bathgate and re-opened to passengers. Blackhall re-opened and Crofthead re-opened as Fauldhouse and Crofthead. The Longridge to Bathgate section was first opened to passengers with new stations at Bents and Whitburn. |
| / /1873 | [Muirkirk Branch GSWR] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) [Caledonian Railway] line via Douglas reaches Muirkirk, new Muirkirk station opened further east, on other side of road bridge from original. [Caledonian Railway] use the [Glasgow and South Western Railway] locomotive shed. A second [Caledonian Railway] line was built from Coalburn to Muirkirk but not used between Glenbuck and Muirkirk as the [Glasgow and South Western Railway] threatened to apply for running powers through to Lanark. |
| 01/05/1879 | (Uddingston to Mossend?) Mossend branch opened for passengers |
| / /1882 | Hayes Craigs Opened by Oakbank Oil Co for shale for Niddry Castle Oil works |
| 01/11/1893 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Blackhall station (at Blackhall Junction for Shotts) closed. |
| / /1895 | Largs Branch (Glasgow and South Western Railway) Ardrossan shed [2nd] opened in the triangle of lines by Ardrossan Town. |
| / /1899 | [Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway] Swing bridge over the canal in Falkirk replaced |
| / /1906 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Fauldhouse and Crofthead re-named Fauldhouse South. |
| 01/09/1906 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Crofthead renamed Fauldhouse and Crofthead. |
| / /1915 | Westwood Pit (Livingston) Opened by the Oakbank Oil company |
| / /1919 | Kingshill No 1 Opened by the [Coltness Ironworks]. Connected to the [Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway]. The town of Allantown is developed by the company and local council for miners. |
| / /1928 | Kingshill No 2 Sunk by the [Coltness Ironworks]. Served by the [Wilsontown Branch]. It was colloquially known as Queenshill. |
| /06/1929 | Kingshill No 1 Baths opened. |
| 01/05/1930 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Morningside to Bathgate (Polkemmet Junction) closed to passengers. Morningside, Fauldhouse South, Bents and Whitburn closed. |
| / /1939 | Hayes Craigs Converted to open cast |
| /08/1946 | Kingshill No 3 Sunk by the NCB, originally planned by the [Coltness Ironworks]. |
| / /1948 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Ardrossan shed coded 67D. |
| 04/04/1949 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Carluke to Castlehill Junction closed. A section between Castlehill Junction and a nearby Colliery remained open until 1955. Part of this line was built on the former course of a waggonway running from Castlehill Iron Works (Carluke). |
| 06/03/1950 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Blackhall Junction to Shotts closed. |
| 03/07/1950 | [Muirkirk Branch GSWR] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Cronberry to Auchinleck closed to passengers. |
| / /1952 | Kingshill No 3 Opened by the NCB. Connected by double track cable haulage railway to new preparation plant at Kingshill No 1. The new preparation plant also replaces the Royal George washery at the [Coltness Ironworks] and is used for coal from Branchal and Overtown. |
| / /1959 | Loganlea Mine (Livingston) Closed by United Collieries. Also known as Dykes. Connected to Foulshiels and Woodmuir |
| / /1959 | Bogside Mine Opened, to serve the Kincardine Power station. |
| / /1960 | Hayes Craigs Closed |
| / /1962 | Westwood Pit (Livingston) Closed |
| / /1963 | Kingshill No 2 Closed. Subsequent private mines were at Abbey, Backshot and Rashiehill. |
| 24/04/1963 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Addiewell to Whitburn closed. |
| 17/06/1963 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Shotts East to Westcraigs Junction closed. |
| 10/08/1964 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Bathgate to Fauldhouse closed. (This date is probably wrong, should be 1966). |
| / /1965 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Ardrossan shed closed. |
| 02/05/1966 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Fauldhouse and Crofthead to Whitrigg Colliery closed to freight. |
| / /1967 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Ardrossan shed (closed) signing on point closed. |
| / /1968 | Kingshill No 1 Mine closed, but coal preparation plant remains open for Kingshill No 3. |
| 01/01/1968 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Ardrossan Castlehill Junction to Parkhouse Junction closed to passengers. |
| 20/01/1969 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Whitrigg Colliery to Polkemmet Junction closed to freight. |
| 10/02/1969 | [Muirkirk Branch GSWR] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Muirkirk to Cronberry (excluded) closed to freight. |
| 30/09/1969 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Ardrossan Castlehill Junction to Parkhouse Junction closed to freight. |
| 01/10/1971 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Fairlie Pier to Fairlie Pier Junction closed to passengers. |
| 31/07/1972 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Fairlie Pier to Fairlie Pier Junction Officially closed to passengers. |
| / /1974 | Kingshill No 3 Closed. Cable haulage railway to Kingshill No 1 closed. |
| 15/07/1974 | [Wilsontown Morningside and Coltness Railway] Morningside to Castlehill Junction (Kingshill Collieries No 1 and No 3) closed to freight. |
| 06/12/1976 | [Muirkirk Branch GSWR] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Cronberry to Auchinleck closed to freight. |
| / /1979 | [Ravenscraig Steelworks] [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Hunterston Ore Terminal opened with a 3500 ton crane for ore and 2500 ton crane for coal. |
| /09/1994 | [Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway] Camelon station opened |
| /01/1997 | [Largs Branch] ([Glasgow and South Western Railway]) Hunterston to Ardrossan Holm Junction re-opened to freight. |
| / /2005 | [Glasgow Paisley Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway] [Muirkirk Branch GSWR] Work begins on re-instating the Auchinleck to Cronberry to Powharnal (Gaswater) line. RailScot note: this work was aborted following the survey and pegging out of the centreline of the route. |
| 27/05/2008 | [Muirkirk Branch GSWR] Demolition approved by East Ayrshire Council for British Railways Board (Residual) of the Mosshouse Viaduct over the Bellow Water by Cronberry. The viaduct was in poor condition and would need replaced should the Powharnal line be re-opened. The viaduct was demolished by the end of the year 2008. |
