North Monkland Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
North Monkland Junction (1878-1921)Opened on the Slamannan Railway.
Opened on the North Monkland Railway.
Description
This was the junction between the Slamannan Railway of 1840 and the North Monkland Railway of 1878, a partly independent line of North British Railway origins.
This was a double track junction as both single track lines doubled before the junction and there was a loop running east from the junction. At the start of the branch there was a further loop, just after the junction. The signal box, opened with the North Monkland Railway, was on the north side of the junction.
To the west of the junction the 'main line' dropped to a single track. Just to the west of this was the start of a double track section which ran west to Longrigg Siding (controlled by Limerigg Signal Box).
To the south was a loop siding for the Lodge Colliery Pit No 1. This was closed by 1910.
The signal box closed in 1921. The formation still exists, despite closure of the branch in 1921 and the main line in 1949.
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JunctionExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Slamannan Longriggend Forrestfield Glenellrig Caldercruix Arbuckle Avonbridge Plains Westcraigs Blackridge Blackston Junction Upper Greenhill Greenhill Bonnybridge Whiterigg | Lodge Colliery Pit No 1 Coke Kiln Southfield Colliery Pit No 1 Lodge Colliery Pit No 2 Southfield Coke Ovens Coal Pit Coal Pit Southfield Colliery Pit No 3 Balquhatstone Colliery Pit No 3 Southfield Colliery Pit No 2 Limerigg Junction Coal Pit Balquhatstone Colliery Pit No 1 Binniehill Colliery Binniehill Coke Ovens |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1923 | North Monkland Railway North Monkland Junction (excluded) to Greengairs Siding (excluded) closed. |
