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This works is closed. The furnace bank of this early coke iron works still stands, the iron works itself closing with the creation of the National Coal Board. A water tower above the furnace bank also survives. Other parts of the works, such as brass casting, survived for longer, around 1971.

The works was served by a 1859 branch of the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway, then owned by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, from the south and by a 1862 branch of the Monkland Railways from the north (used by the works to export pig iron via Leith docks).

The works had its own waggonway and later railway system connecting to pits, largely to the east. See entry for Shotts Iron Co.

The line from the south crossed the private railway to the furnace tops on the level before meeting the line from the north at Shotts Loops. The line from the north served the works by reversal and the intention was probably that the other line was providing a through route, except this was probably the first planned, so why this arrangement?

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