Dykehead Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Dykehead Junction (1835-1952)Opened on the Ballochney Railway.
Description
This was the junction between the Ballochney Railway of 1828 and the Dykehead Junction of 1835. The original line was double track and branch single.
A signal box opened here in 1888. It was on the north side of the original line and a little way east of the junction, also controlling Ballochney Junction (or Airdriehill Junction) which was to the east.
The box closed in 1931, the year after withdrawal of passenger trains. Ballochney Junction also closed in the 1930s with the closure of the Stanrigg Oil Works and Ballochney Colliery line (the original railway).
The Dykehead line closed in 1952. The remaining line from near Kipps to near Arbuckle closed in 1956.
The formation of the junction remains although there has been much opencast mining in the area.
Tags
Junction| Nearby stations Whiterigg Rawyards Clarkston (Lanark) Drumgelloch Commonhead (Airdrie North) Drumgelloch [1st] Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Arbuckle Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie [CR] Plains Airdrie Airdrie [Leaend] Coatdyke Kipps | Quarry Ballochney Junction Coal Pit Coal Pit Thrushbush Pit Coal Pit Boots Airdrie Factory Rawyards Wagon Works Dalmacoulter Quarry Stanrigg Oil Works Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit Whiterigg Lye Taylor^s Siding |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1835 | Dykehead Branch (Ballochney Railway) Craigmaukin (Dykehead Junction) to Dykehead Colliery Pit No 1 opened. |
| /06/1843 | Ballochney Railway Dykehead Junction to Darngarvil Colliery Sidings branch sanctioned by government. |
| 01/09/1949 | North Monkland Railway
Dykehead Branch Extension (Monkland Railways)
Dykehead Branch (Ballochney Railway)
Ballochney Railway Dykehead branch closed. Closed from Greengairs Siding to Dykehead Junction. |
| 01/09/1949 | Ballochney Railway
Slamannan Railway Slamannan to Ballochney Junction to Dykehead Junction to Rawyards (excluded) closed to freight and completely. Additionally Ballochney Colliery to Ballochney Junction closed. |
