Stepps
Location type
StationName and dates
Stepps (1989-)Station code: SPS National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Cumbernauld via Duke Street.
Description
This is a two platform station.
The station is located at the point where the Steps Road Carriage Shed sidings formerly met the line. This shed was to the north of the line, approached from the east. It is also where the branch to the Comedie Screens met the line from the south, also approached from the east.
To the east of the station was formerly the Cardowan Colliery.
The original Stepps [1st] station was further west and closed in 1962.
Tags
StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Stepps [1st] Garnkirk Robroyston Lenzie Bridgend [M and K] Kirkintilloch [1st] Woodley Gartcosh Garrowhill Easterhouse Bedlay Halt Shettleston Carntyne Back O Loch Halt Mount Vernon North | Steps Road Carriage Shed Cardowan Colliery Quarry Craigendmuir Depot Cardowan Fireclay Pit Cardowan Fireclay Works Blackfaulds Siding Mine Comedie Screens Garthamlock Colliery Pit No 3 Saracen Tubeworks Blackfaulds [End of line] Robroyston East Junction Tourist/other Cardowan Signal Box Gartloch Distillery |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1930 | Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Cardowan Colliery opened by line at Stepps. |
| 15/05/1989 | Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Stepps station opened. Served by the Springburn to Cumbernauld services, and Greenfaulds opened on the same day. |
| 15/05/1989 | Caledonian Railway Greenfaulds station opened. Served by the Springburn to Cumbernauld services, and Stepps opened on the same day. |
News items
| 12/09/2018 | Construction begins on new Robroyston station [ScotRail] |
Books
| The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and associated railways |
