Knowton Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Knowton Signal Box (1908-1940)Opened on the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway.
Description
This signal box controlled access to Knowton Colliery. The colliery was on the north side of the line, connected to the west end of a looped siding on the main line. The signal box was on the south side.
The formation is still visible. At the west end the A71 crosses over the former line, the bridge by which it crossed now removed.
Tags
Signal box junction siding colliery| Nearby stations Headlesscross Blackhall Fauldhouse Shotts Fauldhouse and Crofthead Hartwood Davies Dykes Longridge [1st] Breich Longridge [2nd] Wilsontown Bents Haywood Morningside [NBR] Morningside [1st] | Knowton Colliery Brickhouse Westallan Colliery Southfield Colliery Pit East Badallan Colliery Benhar Junction Stane Colliery Wellhill Cistern Coal and Ironstone Pit Shotts Iron Works Reversing Spur Blackhall Junction Braehead Quarry Leadloch Colliery Pit No 1 Damside Opencast |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
