Morningside Incline Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Morningside Incline Signal Box (-1935)Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Description
This signal box was located at the east end of loops, which began at Garriongill Junction (formed with the Caledonian Railway in 1848), and was at the incline foot of the single track Morningside Incline which ran uphill to the East North East.
The box was located on the south side of the line (and a building is shown here even on the very early 1858/59 OS map).
To the west the approach to Garriongill Junction was crossed by the Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway) of 1880.
The box closed in 1935 (as did the box at Stirling Road Junction. The loop remained until a few years before the line's closure in 1994.
Tags
Incline signal boxExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
10/08/2019
| Nearby stations Law Junction Overtown [2nd] Stirling Road Overtown [1st] Cambusnethan Morningside [CR] Morningside [1st] Morningside [NBR] Newmains Wishaw Wishaw South Carluke Dalserf Davies Dykes Cleland [1st] | Morningside Incline Garriongill Junction Coke Oven Coal Pit Coal Pit Law Colliery Pit No 2 Tile Works Coal Pit Gillhead Colliery Coal Pit Coal Pit Coal Pit Law Colliery Pit No 1 Coal Pit Quarry |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
