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This junction predates the former Robroyston Yard to its west. This was the junction for a mineral line serving Robroyston Coal Pit, the branch being approached from the east.

Note the 1880 date is assumed, based on newspaper records of the pit, this coal pit had closed by the 1890s but the line remained intact and was later reused, firstly as a branch of the Caledonian Railway serving the Robroyston Brick and Tile Works and then being transferred to Glasgow Corporation for the Robroyston Hospital.

In 1896 a goods line from Balornock Junction to Robroyston opened, just after the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway opened, which effectively quadrupled the line from St Rollox to Robroyston. Robroyston Yard opened at the east end of this, providing marshalling for trains to and from Glasgow Buchanan Street Goods and the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway.

The box was located in the 'V' of the junction between the colliery line, to the north, and main line.

The junction and box were renamed to 'East' in 1897/98.

The yard closed officially in 1967. The box closed in 1971.

The formation of the east end of the yard and the branch to the colliery can still be seen. A road bridge crosses the open line and a double road bridge crosses the former yard and branch lines. The yard itself is very overgrown.

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