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This was a four way junction and also formed part of a triangular junction. The junction was south of Airdrie on the Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) on a network of lines which opened in 1887. The lines were all double track at the junction.

A curve ran north from the junction to Airdrie Junction and another west to Cairnhill Junction, the Gartness junction forming the third apex of this triangular junction.

A goods and minerals only line, dropping to a single line beyond the junction, ran east to Gartness, serving an area already served by the North British Railway (serving Monkland Colliery Pit No 4, Monkland Colliery Pits Nos 5 and 6 and a joint section to Gartness Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2). The main route ran south to Calderbank and beyond.

A signal box opened with the junctions, on the south side of the junction.

The line from Airdrie [CR] to Newhouse via Calderbank closed to passengers in 1930. With the reduction in traffic the boxes on the line were operated by a travelling signalman from 1935. East to Gartness closed in the 1930s. The line was singled in 1939 and Gartness Junction box was closed, the curve west to Cairnhill Junction being lifted. Calderbank Viaduct was taken out of use in 1941 and the line to Calderbank fell out of use too, Calderbank Steel Works having closed in 1930. The remainder of the Newhouse line to the south could be accessed from Lanridge Junction.

The site is now a school's football pitch.

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