Shotts Branch Railway (Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway)




Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was the junction between the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway of 1845 and the 1859 branch to the north of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway to the Shotts Loops, serving the Shotts Iron Works. Access to the branch was from west. Named for Blackhall Farm to the west.
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Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway


Kepplehill 1&2 (better known as Stane Colliery) was opened in 1897 by the Kepplehill Coal Company. It was transferred to the Shotts Iron Company in 1918.
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This works is closed. The furnace bank of this early coke iron works still stands, the iron works itself closing with the creation of the National Coal Board. A water tower above the furnace bank also survives. Other parts of the works, such as brass casting, survived for longer, around 1971.
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Shotts Iron Co
The site of the former Shotts Ironworks was to the left. The view looks north along the former trackbed of the railway. ...
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