Langloan Junction
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Langloan Junction (1865-)Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This junction is in Coatbridge. It is one of three junctions forming a triangular junction. To the north east is Coatbridge Junction, just south of Coatbridge Central. This junction allows trains from the north to approach Glasgow via Rutherglen. To the south east is Whifflet North Junction, just north of Whifflet station. This junction allows the same approach for trains from the south. It is a double track junction. Both forks opened in 1865. Langloan station was to the immediate west.
The junction was also known as Langloan West Junction to make a distinction from Langloan East Junction.
The first signal box was on the south side of the junction. Coatbridge Iron Works was to the south, served by sidings west of the box approached from the west, and there was a connection to the Souterhouse and Dundyvan Branch (Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway) serving the British Tube Works.
The box was replaced, the new box being on the north side of the junction. This allowed a looped siding, approached from the west, to be laid in on the south side of the junction.
The box closed in 1973, replaced by the Motherwell Signalling Centre. The lines are now electrified.
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JunctionAliases
Langloan West Junction
| Nearby stations Langloan Kirkwood Coatbridge Central Whifflet Lower Whifflet Upper Coatbridge Central [NB] Whifflet [NB] Whifflet Whifflet [CR] Blairhill Coatbridge Sunnyside Howes Calder Iron Works [Station] Carnbroe Calder | Coatbridge Iron Works Langloan Iron Works Lochrin Concrete Works Drumpeller Coal Pit Langloan Wagon Repair Depot British Tube Works Lochrin Wire Mill Souterhouse Colliery Pit No 1 Drumpeller Iron Works Drumpellier Colliery Pit No 4 Souterhouse Brick Works Victoria Tubeworks Souterhouse Colliery Pit No 2 Rosehall Junction Tourist/other Langloan Level Crossing Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
