Glasgow, Airdrie and Monklands Junction Railway
Dates
| / /1845 | Glasgow, Airdrie and Monklands Junction Railway Line promoted between Glasgow and Coatbridge via Shettleston. The company hoped to build a goods and passenger station on the site occupied by the University of Glasgow which was interested in re-locating to a larger site. |
| 27/07/1846 | Glasgow, Airdrie and Monklands Junction Railway Act passed. The Act included details of a 23 acre site the railway was to buy in Glasgow's West End at Woodlands, the buildings to be built by the company and the property of the University of Glasgow to be moved to the new site. The railway was to give the University £10,000 for a new Hospital. |
| /07/1848 | Glasgow, Airdrie and Monklands Junction Railway Plans, by architect John Baird, for the new University of Glasgow passed. The university contacts the railway to ask when construction begins. The planned railway has been abandoned and the University of Glasgow takes the company to court and wins £12,000 compensation for breach of contract. |
| / /1852 | Glasgow, Airdrie and Monklands Junction Railway Site at Woodlands sold to Glasgow Corporation for housing and part of Kelvingrove Park. |
