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The site of the yard, also known as Dundyvan Basin Yard, was on the east side of the Whifflet North Junction - Sunnyside Junction line and to the north of the overbridge carrying the Airdrie Branch (Caledonian Railway) over that line.

Dundyvan Basin Yard was laid out on the east side of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway to serve a double canal basin at the southern end of the 1836 Dundyvan Branch Canal, a branch of the Monkland Canal. Sidings were laid out to serve coal hoists on either side of a central pier between the two basins (Upper Basin to the west and Lower Basin to the east). Additional sidings were on the east side of the Lower Basin. The basin was a trans-shipment point between coal from the Wishaw and Coltness Railway and the Monkland Canal. A further basin was on the west side of the M&K, the canal passing under the railway, serving the Dundyvan Iron Works.

To reach the upper and lower basin sidings the W&CR ran north over a very short portion of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway at Whifflet [NB] - between Whifflet South Junction and Dundyvan Branch Junction. This latter junction was with the NB's short branch serving the Coatbridge Tinplate Works and the Lochrin Iron Works.

The branch canal was purchased by the Caledonian Railway in 1867.

The yard survived beyond the closure of the canal branch. In the 1980s it was being used as a permanent way depot (used to store redundant track panels and as a supply depot during the Yoker Re-signalling Scheme). Complete closure was later (possibly removal of the last siding was as late as 2000).

The site of the yard is alongside the north end of the short loop of which the south end is at Whifflet North Junction.

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