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The yard consisted of sidings on either side of the former Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway between Gunnie North Signal Box and Gunnie South Signal Box. The yard was largely associated with the local iron works, particularly the Gartsherrie Iron Works.

Much of the purpose of the yard was for exchanges with other yards and the Caledonian Railway. A number of services started or ended in the yard.

The sidings on the east side were approached from the south. The sidings on the west side led to the older part of the Gartsherrie Iron Works at the south end of the yard and there were many dead end sidings on the west side, approached from the north. The nearby Gartgill Weighs were more closely associated with coal arriving to the iron works from the north (from Gartshore, Kilsyth and Bedlay), such trains did not pass through Gunnie Yard.

The Gartsherrie Iron Works were on the west side of the yard.

Following closure of the Gartsherrie Iron Works the yard was lifted and a new yard laid out north of the former Gunnie North Signal Box at Gunnie Yard [2nd].

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