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Chapelhall Iron Works (1825-1886)

/ /1826	Monkland Steel Company Blast furnace opened at Chapelhall Iron Works to use blackband ironstone (Company later called the Monkland Iron and Steel Company).
/ /1881	Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation for the Airdrie Branch granted - one of a group of lines called the Lanarkshire Lines. The Airdrie Branch was to run via Whifflet Upper on the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) to Airdrie [CR]. The 'Loop' or 'Lanarkshire Lines' were to run from Airdrie [CR] to Newhouse and beyond, making connection with the existing mineral lines, Salsburgh Branch (Caledonian Railway), near Omoa. Branches to Chapelhall Iron Works, Calderbank Iron Works and Gartness, serving the Gartness Malleable Iron Works, also authorised.
/ /1886	Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) The Chapelhall Iron Works closed in 1886, consequently the iron works branch was partly abandoned (retained as a reversing spur for Calderbank Steel Works).
01/09/1887	Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) Cairnhill Junction to Chapelhall opened. Calderbank Iron Works branch opened. Chapelhall Iron Works branch opened (partially - the iron works closed the previous year).

Nearby stations Chapelhall Calderbank Newhouse Drumgelloch [1st] Drumgelloch Clarkston (Lanark) Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Airdrie Hallcraig Street Cairnhill Bridge Rawyards Plains Commonhead (Airdrie North) Calder	Dunsiston Colliery Pits Nos 4 and 5 Calderbank Viaduct Monkland Iron and Steelworks Calderbank Steel Works Coal and Ironstone Pit Gartness Malleable Iron Works Monkland Colliery Pits Nos 5 and 6 Calderbank Steel Works Junction Coal and Ironstone Pit Gartness Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Moffat Forges Gartness Colliery Ironstone Pit Coal Pit Tourist/other Monkland House
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.