Watsonhead Loading Pad
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Watsonhead Loading Pad (2000-2015)Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Description
A short section of line was relaid from Stirling Road Junction on the course of the former Wishaw and Coltness Railway in 2011 (this portion of line had closed in 1974 with the closure of Kingshill Colliery No 1).
The loading pad was a single line with a loop. It was for loading opencast coal from H J Banks Co Ltd's Watsonhead open cast, formerly the Chapel Colliery, extending from the south side of the solum of the line to Chapel and Watsonhead.
After brief use traffic ceased with the failure of a planning application to expand the Watsonhead open cast.
Garriongill Junction was taken out around 2015.
Tags
Siding loading pad09/04/2020
| Nearby stations Morningside [CR] Morningside [1st] Morningside [NBR] Stirling Road Newmains Cambusnethan Law Junction Overtown [2nd] Davies Dykes Overtown [1st] Wishaw Wishaw South Cleland [1st] Cleland Carluke | Morningside Shed Coal Pit Brick and tile works Chapel Colliery Junction Morningside Junction Coal Pit Allanton Iron Foundry Coal Pit Coal Pit Coal it Stirling Road Junction Allanton Brick and Tile Works Coal Pit Chapel Colliery Coal Pit |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /2000 | Wishaw and Coltness Railway Works begins to relay the line from Stirling Road Junction to the Watsonhead Loading Pad (near the former Morningside [CR] station) for opencast coal traffic. |
| / /2004 | Wishaw and Coltness Railway Traffic ceases about this date at the Watsonhead Loading Pad. |
