Works
Sun Tube Steelworks (1880-1970)
Opened on the North Monkland Railway.
This tube works was established in the 1880s by the Clyde Tube Works. It was approached from a siding from the north from the North Monkland Railway.
It was also known as the Sun Foundry.
It came to be owned by Stewarts and Lloyds.
The building remains open, now in a variety of steel stocking and steel erection purposes.
/ /1964 | North Monkland Railway Sun Tube Steelworks (excluded) to Rigghead Siding closed. |
18/08/1971 | North Monkland Railway Kipps Junction to Sun Tube Steelworks closed. |