This is industrial distillery.
Inver House Distillers
A branch ran here from Moffat Mills Junction to sidings at Wester Moffat Exchange Sidings.
Nearby stations Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Clarkston (Lanark) Drumgelloch Plains Drumgelloch [1st] Chapelhall Whiterigg Calderbank Rawyards Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie Newhouse Arbuckle Caldercruix | Springbank Quarry Springbank Colliery Pits Nos 5 and 6 Moffat Paper Mills Gartness Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Moffat Forges North Calder Viaduct [Wester Moffat] Dunsiston Colliery Pit No 2 Wester Moffat Colliery Wester Moffat Exchange Sidings Springbank Coal Pit Coal Pit Gartness Malleable Iron Works Brownieside Junction Moffat Mills Junction Tourist/other Wester Moffat House |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
/ /1960 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways) Ballochney Railway Moffat Paper Mills to Wester Moffat Exchange Sidings (excluded) closed. (Later re-opened to serve Inver House Distillery.) |
/ /1965 | Inver House Distillers Ltd Moffat Paper Mills rebuilt as Inver House Distillery. |
/ /1981 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways) Ballochney Railway Moffat Mills Junction to Inver House Distillery re-opened. (This is inaccurate as a photograph from 1974 shows a train leaving the branch from Inver House Distillery, unless there was a further closure and re-opening.) |
01/01/1986 | Ballochney Railway New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways) Inver House Distillery to Moffat Mills Junction to Airdrie (excluded) closed. The track is left disused from Airdrie to Moffat Mills Junction with a buffer placed at the east end of Airdrie station. South of Moffat Mills Junction is lifted and girders removed from viaduct. |
Vanished Railways of West Lothian |