Glenbuck
Location type
StationName and dates
Glenbuck (1876-1952)Opened on the Muirkirk Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This was a single platform station on the north side of a single track line. The station was south of Glenbuck itself and west of Glenbuck Loch. It was not particularly convenient for Glenbuck, just under a mile away by road.
There was a small goods yard to the west, approached from the east. A quarry siding was to the east, approached from the west. There was a signal box at the east end of the platform, closed in 1932.
The station closed in 1952 and line in 1964.
The timber passenger platform remains, in poor condition.
To the east of the station the line crossed Glenbuck Loch on a causeway.
Glenbuck itself, long associated with coal mining and even the Glenbuck Iron Works, has been obliterated by opencast mining.
Local
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Inches Muirkirk [2nd] Muirkirk [1st] Bankend Douglas West Coalburn Bellfield Platform Auchlochan Halt Happendon Alton Heights Brocketsbrae Lesmahagow [2nd] Ponfeigh Cairntable Halt Drumclog | Glenbuck Iron Works Grasshill No 2 Pit Grasshill No 1 Pit Maidenbank Pit Spireslack Viaduct Colliery Davie Pit Quarry Galawhistle Pit Spireslack Colliery No 1 Pit Viaduct Mine Lightshaw Colliery Pit No 4 Coal Mine [High Monkshead] Lightshaw Colliery Pit No 3 Tourist/other Glenbuck Loch |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
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