Stepends Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Stepends JunctionOpened on the New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways).
Description
This junction was east of Plains station. It served the siding to Stepends Colliery and Stepends Brick Works. (These were connected by a long aerial ropeway to Ardenrigg Colliery Pit No 6 to the south east.)
Departure from the siding was to the west. It was reached by reversal from the westbound line and was located on the south side of the line.
The junction shared a signal box, Stepends Signal Box, with Plains Junction which was to the east.
The junction was named for the nearby farm.
Tags
Junction Signal box Aerial ropeway06/04/2021
| Nearby stations Plains Clarkston [Wester Moffat] Arbuckle Caldercruix Clarkston (Lanark) Whiterigg Drumgelloch Drumgelloch [1st] Rawyards Longriggend Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie [CR] Commonhead (Airdrie North) Airdrie Chapelhall | Brownieside Colliery Pit No 3 Barbleus Forge Plains Colliery Ford Pit Stepends Ironstone Pit Plains Junction Stepends Coal Pit Ballochney Meadowhead Pit Timber Works Barblues Colliery Ballochney Colliery Pit Coal Pit Tourist/other Stepends Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1859 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways) Opened to minerals from Calderbank Branch Junction to Stepends Junction (continued by separate line to Stepends Colliery, of the Summerlee Iron Works). |
| / /1860 | New Monkland Line (Monkland Railways) Line opened to goods and minerals from Stepends Junction to Standhill (Woodend Junction). Plains Colliery (Planes Branch) also opened. |
Books
 Vanished Railways of West Lothian |
