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Kilsyth Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Kilsyth Junction (1888-1951)

Opened on the Kelvin Valley Railway.
Opened on the Bairds of Gartshore's Railway.
Opened on the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway.

Description

This was the junction where the Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway met the Kelvin Valley Railway. Kilsyth Shed was located to the north, approached from the junction to the east.

The junction left Kilsyth (Old) on a short branch from the junction. The terminus did not close to passengers and remained open after the Bonnybridge route had closed to passengers.

East of the junction and to the south was a connection to the Bairds of Gartshore's Railway.

A signal box opened with the junction in 1888 on the north side of the junction. The box was on the west side of a footbridge over the line.

The line closed to passengers in 1951. The box closed in 1958 and the line closed altogether in 1964.

The trackbed is now a footpath. The path which ran to the footbridge, down from Glasgow Road to Duncansfield, still exists.

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67

Nearby stations Kilsyth (Old) Kilsyth (New) Twechar Colzium Croy Dullator Milton of Campsie Greenfaulds Cumbernauld Kirkintilloch [2nd] Banknock Back O Loch Halt Castlecary Kirkintilloch Basin Woodley	Kilsyth Shed Haugh Colliery No 1 Haugh Coke Works Kilsyth Gas Works Coal Pit Coke Works and Chemical Works Auchinvole Sand Quarry Neilston Coke Works Barrwood Colliery Pit No 2 Dumbreck Colliery Auchinstarry Quarry Dumbreck Coke Ovens Barrwood Quarry Neilston Colliery Pit No 3 Beltmoss Quarry
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

01/02/1935	Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway Denny Branch (Scottish Central Railway) Larbert Junction to Kilsyth (New) to Kilsyth Junction closed to passengers.
04/05/1964	Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Railway Banknock to Kilsyth Junction (excluded) closed to freight.