This line is open. It was a freight only route for many years and was re-opened to passengers. New stations were constructed at similar locations to the original ones. Known as the 'R and C' or Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway. The line was authorised for the Caledonian Railway between Rutherglen and Coatbridge with a branch to Whifflet.
These locations are along the line.
This junction is east of Rutherglen. It is the junction between the main line to the south out of Glasgow Central and the line east to Coatbridge Central and Whifflet.
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This was the junction and exchange sidings for the Clydebridge Steel Works. The works started in 1887 on the west bank of the River Clyde, just across the river from the Clyde Iron Works and north of the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) which had sidings serving the works.
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This double track five arch stone bridge crosses over the River Clyde carrying the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway). It is a short distance east of Rutherglen East Junction and south of the former Clyde Iron Works (east bank) and Clydebridge Steel Works (west bank). The viaduct carries a water main in a piperack on its south side.
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This signal box was just to the east of Clydebridge Viaduct on the south side of the line. It controlled the point of entry into the Clyde Iron Works (dating from 1786) from the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) (the 1868 (Lanarkshire and Midlothian Branches railway number 8 - Clyde Iron Works).. This replaced earlier connections to the [[Clydesdale Junction ...
More detailsThese boxes served the Clyde Iron Works from 1897. Clyde Iron Works Signal Box [1st] was replaced in 1897 when a second entry to the works opened. A curve, also approached from the east, connected with a works line which had served a coal pit close to the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway). The new box was mid way between the two access points and, once again, on ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station which was opened in 1993 on the site of a former station.
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This was a double junction. The existing 1865 Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) was met by the 1896/7 Glasgow Central Railway which used the original line for a very short distance between its two portions. The Carmyle goods yard was modified to lead off the Glasgow Central Low Level route. The signal box (which replaced the old Carmyle box) was on the south ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station. It re-opened with the re-opening of the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) to local trains in 1993.
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This colliery was location between the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) and the North British Railway's Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway Hamilton branch at Mount Vernon.
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This is a two platform station. The station opened with the re-opening of the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) to a local train service in 1993.
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More detailsThis was a single bore and single track tunnel on the mineral line between exchange sidings at Calderbank Colliery Signal Box, to the north on the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway), and Calderbank Colliery Pit No 1. The tunnel is sealed.
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This signal box was on the north side of the line opposite the junction for the Calderbank Colliery Pit No 1. The branch was accessed from the east and ran south through Calderbank Colliery Tunnel.
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The original station was further east than today's Baillieston station. It was a two platform station with the main station building on the eastbound platform (closer to the village, as it then was, of Baillieston which was to the north). There was a waiting room on the westbound platform. The east end of the eastbound platform had a water tank for locomotives.
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This junction was located between Bailieston (to the west) and Bargeddie. A mineral and goods line ran south east from the main line (running east-west). There were loops on the branch directly east of the junction and some exchange sidings in the 'V' of the junction. These both made trailing connections. The branch was single track and main line double track.
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This is a long double track girder viaduct, near Bargeddie station, crossing the new M8 alignment. Built at the site of Tannochside Junction, for the Tannochside Branch (Caledonian Railway).
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This is the 'Cutty Sark Bridge' (named for a long term advert for Cutty Sark Whisky on the bridge) over the A8 at the point where is became the M8 heading west.
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This is a two platform station to the west of Langmuir Road. The station opened in 1993 on the site of the earlier Drumpark station. Both stations are and were minimal.
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This junction was the west end of a connecting curve which linked the 1865 Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) to the Drumpeller Railway, a private line which linked the Monkland Canal to coal mines around Drumpellier and Bredisholme. It met the private line at Bredisholm Colliery Junction.
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This is a two platform station dating from 1993 when the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) re-opened to local trains.
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This junction was just east of Kirkwood station and west of the closed Langloan station. It provided access to the Langloan Iron Works, to its north east.
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This was a two platform station east of Kirkwood station which replaces it. The station was directly west of Langloan Junction and directly east of Langloan Weighs Signal Box.
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This junction is in Coatbridge. It is one of three junctions forming a triangular junction. To the north east is Coatbridge Junction, just south of Coatbridge Central. This junction allows trains from the north to approach Glasgow via Rutherglen. To the south east is Whifflet North Junction, just north of Whifflet station. This junction allows the same approach for trains from ...
More detailsThis 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 is the junction between the 1845 Whifflet Extension (Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway) and the 1865 Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway). The junction allows a train from the Glasgow direction to enter Whifflet station and continue south towards Mossend Marshalling Yard.
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This signal box was located on the curve between Coatbridge Junction (south of Coatbridge Central) and Langloan Junction.
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This is the junction between the Whifflet Extension (Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway) of 1845 and the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) of 1865. The junction gave access from the north to the Rutherglen route. Whifflet North Junction provides access from the south, completing a triangular junction with Langloan Junction to the west.
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