Coatbridge Sunnyside
Location type
StationName and dates
Coatbridge Sunnyside (1864-)Station code: CBS National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the Hornock Deviation (Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Bathgate and Airdrie.
Description
This is a two platform station with the main building, on the Glasgow bound platform. The brick built building is a single storey. The Sunnyside Coffee Company is based in the station building. The station formerly served the Gartsherrie Iron Works.
The ticket office was on the overbridge at the west end of the station, the building removed around 1988.
There was a goods yard in what is now the car park, on the south side of the line, approached from the east. Just west is Sunnyside Junction.
To the north was a siding for the Lamberton Works, approached from the east.
The station is built on a deviation of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway the former goods yard (now car park) being the stump of the former route which had been further south - the realignment allowed an expansion of the Gartsherrie Iron Works.
Later, with the opening of the route west to Glasgow High Street, there was a further slight realignment to the south.
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life is not far from the station, but requires a fair walk to reach the entrance.
Local
Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life is not far from the station.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
12/04/2022
| Nearby stations Howes Coatbridge Central [NB] Coatbridge Central Kipps Blairhill Whifflet Upper Whifflet Lower Whifflet [NB] Gartsherrie [M and K] Coatdyke Gartsherrie [GGR] Gartsherrie Whifflet Whifflet [CR] Langloan | Sunnyside Engine Works Sunnyside Junction Howes Basin Summerlee Iron Works Gartsherrie Shed [GGR] Greenside Junction Atlas Foundry [Coatbridge] Gartsherrie Iron Works Britannia Works [Coatbridge] Coatbridge Works Tourist/other Summerlee East Signal Box Summerlee West Signal Box Summerlee Heritage Centre Coatbridge Level Crossing Gartsherrie Iron Works Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 01/02/1871 | Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Coatbridge Sunnyside opened on re-aligned western part of the Kipps branch. |
| / /1888 | Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Coatbridge Sunnyside opened. |
| 08/01/1956 | Glasgow City and District Railway
Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway)
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways)
Boghead to Cowdenhead Branch (Monkland Railways)
Torbanehill and Bathgate Branch (Monkland Railways)
Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Last regular Glasgow Queen Street Low Level to Edinburgh Waverley via Shettleston, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Bathgate Upper service runs. |
| /05/1997 | Glasgow and Coatbridge Branch (North British Railway) Platforms raised at resurfaced at Easterhouse, Garrowhill and Coatbridge Sunnyside and the station building renovated at the latter. |
