Coatdyke
Location type
StationName and dates
Coatdyke (1891-)Station code: COA National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Bathgate and Airdrie.
Description
This is a two platform station near Monklands Hospital. The station did not open with the line. When built it was a very rural location, it is now in the west of Airdrie. To the east of the station is the Coatdyke Viaduct. There was no goods or mineral yard, Coatdyke Mineral Depot was on a separate line to the south.
Tags
StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Kipps Calder Airdrie [Leaend] Whifflet [NB] Whifflet Upper Calder Iron Works [Station] Whifflet Lower Airdrie Whifflet Coatbridge Sunnyside Whifflet [CR] Commonhead (Airdrie North) Cairnhill Bridge Coatbridge Central [NB] Airdrie [CR] | Coatdyke Viaduct Coal Pit Coatdyke Mineral Depot Ironstone Pit Lion Works (Grit) Sheepford Boiler Works Ironstone Pit Airdriehouse Brickworks Clyde Tube Works Clyde Yard [Sheepford Goods] Kipps Yard Rochsolloch Works Tourist/other Monklands Hospital Airdrie House Crown Iron Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1891 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways) Coatdyke station opened. |
News items
| 08/05/2020 | Coatdyke railway viaduct shines in honour of coronavirus frontline workers [Daily Record] |
| 05/11/2018 | Fulton MacGregor MSP visits Coatdyke viaduct works to view progress [Network Rail] |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
