Kirkwood Signal Box
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Kirkwood Signal Box (-1928)Description
This signal box was east of Bargeddie and controlled access to a mineral line which ran south to Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 1, Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 2, Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 3 and Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 4.
These collieries were to the east of the Drumpellier collieries.
Access was from the east directly or from the west via a reversing siding on the south side of the line. The signal box was on the north side of the line opposite the connection. This box was replaced in 1906 with another box slightly further east and the reversing spur line turned into a loop.
The box closed in 1928, replaced with a ground frame.
The main line remains open today as an electrified double track line between Rutherglen and Coatbridge.
To the immediate west the line crosses the Luggie Glen on a viaduct.
Today's Kirkwood station is to the east, further east than Bargeddie station to the west.
Tags
Junction signal box| Nearby stations Bargeddie Bargeddie [NB] Kirkwood Langloan Blairhill Coatbridge Central Baillieston [1st] Coatbridge Central [NB] Howes Easterhouse Whifflet Lower Whifflet Upper Whifflet [NB] Coatbridge Sunnyside Maryville | Drumpark Brick Works Bargeddie Brick Works Drumpark Colliery Bredisholm Colliery Junction Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 3 Kirkwood Oil Works Bankhead Quarry Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 1 Summerlee Kirkwood Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 4 Drumpellier Junction Kirkwood Colliery Pit No 2 Braehead Brick Works Drumpeller Incline Bargeddie Colliery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
