Kirkwood Signal Box

Location type

Junction

Name 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.