Rawyards
Location type
StationName and dates
Rawyards (1845-1930)Opened on the Ballochney Railway.
Description
This was a single platform station located to the immediate east of a junction, level crossing and the Ballochney Incline. It was on the Ballochney Railway at the point of division between the lines to Clarkston (Wester Moffat) and Ballochney Colliery.
The platform was on the north side of the Ballochney route line. There were simple timber buildings and a signal box, 'Rawyards West' (1888), on the south side of the junction, opposite the platform. The Clarkston (Wester Moffat) line did not serve the platform.
Beyond the station, on the Ballochney route, was a yard and Rawyards Wagon Works (owned by Pickering of R Y Pickering Wagon Works), both on the north side. These were approached from the north east. Access was controlled by 'Rawyards East' box (1888).
The station and line closed to passengers in 1930. The yard and works were out of use by the 1930s. The east box closed in 1945. The west box, by the level crossing, closed in 1958 when the line closed.
Nothing remains of the station, now the site of Northbrae Avenue and houses on its north side.
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StationExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
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| Nearby stations Commonhead (Airdrie North) Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Drumgelloch [1st] Airdrie [Leaend] Whiterigg Drumgelloch Clarkston (Lanark) Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Coatdyke Kipps Calder Cairnhill Bridge Plains | Coal and Ironstone Pit Taylor^s Siding Rawyards Wagon Works Ironstone Pit Ballochney Incline Coal Pit Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit Coal Pit Drumbathie Quarry Boots Airdrie Factory Chapelside Boiler Works Drumbathie Brick Works Coal Pit Standard Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
