This line is open.
The line was initially authorised for the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway as the Glasgow and Coatbridge Railway.
This line was then developed by the North British Railway to replace the previously proposed Glasgow, Airdrie and Monkland Junction Railway of 1846 which was not successful (despite having agreed to purchase the then site of the University of Glasgow for a terminus and relocate it to Glasgow's West End land was purchased in preparation - the line was not built and the University moved west at a later date to a different site from the earlier planned site).
These locations are along the line.
This was the terminus of the line east to Airdrie.
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This was a large goods depot in Glasgow.
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This mineral depot was opened around 1907 as part of the North British Railway's improvements to its goods facilities in Glasgow.
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The Glasgow cattle market moved to Bellgrove in 1817. The market was rebuilt several times and this market dates from around the 1870s.
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This is an island platform station. There was a slim station building at the east end of the station and a canopied at the west end, the slim building outlasting the canopy into the late 1980s. A shelter now adorns the platform.
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This was a two platform station. To the south were two goods lines, and a yard. To the east was Parkhead Shed and Parkhead Junction [NB].
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The lines from Bellgrove and Alexandra Parade met here. The junction was east of Parkhead North station. The signal box here survived closure of the junction and was swept away by the Yoker re-signalling scheme.
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This shed was south of the Glasgow and Coatbridge Railway (North British Railway) and east of Parkhead North station. It was a double ended shed and access was from the west and east.
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This is a two platform station elevated above surrounding streets.
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This is a two platform station on the former North British Railway's Glasgow to Coatbridge line. The station is immediately west of Shettleston Junction and a small permanent way depot. It became a junction station in 1877 on the opening of the branch to Hamilton.
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This rail served permanent way depot is to the immediate south of the former Shettleston Junction and just east of Shettleston station. The depot may date from the opening of the Hamilton branch in 1877. ...
More detailsThis junction between the North British Railway's Glasgow-Coatbridge line and the Hamilton Branch opened in 1877 and closed on 04/10/1965, with the closure of the line to Mount Vernon Colliery. There was a small set of sidings on the Hamilton branch and a Glasgow bound loop.
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This yard was east of Shettleston Junction on the North British Railway's Glasgow-Coatbridge line. The yard survived, in much reduced form, into the 1980s. Some track remains, out of use. A looped sidings remains on the south side of the line running from the east part of the yard to Shettleston Junction.
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This signal box controlled the east approach to Shettleston Yard. ...
More detailsThis works was located to the east of Shettleston Yard and south of the North British Railway's Glasgow-Coatbridge line. ...
More detailsThis is a two platform station.
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This is a two platform station. It is located between Easterhouse itself (to the north) and Swinton to the south. North of the ststion runs the M8, formerly the Monkland Canal. To the south was Hallhill Colliery Pit No 1.
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This was a two platform station with the main building on the Glasgow bound platform. Although there was little housing in the area there were a number of coal mines.
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This is a two platform station. The station building is above the westbound platform with a footbridge running to the eastbound platform. To the south of the station is the car park. The station serves the north west of Coatbridge.
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This junction is the successor to the original junction between the main line of the Monkland and Kirktintilloch Railway and the Kipps branch.
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