Langloan Railway

Introduction

This line served the Langloan Iron Works.



Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Coatbridge to Langloan Iron Works

This line started from directly south of the Monkland Canal and ran south west to Langloan Iron Works.

This signal box was on the line to Langloan Iron Works from the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway to the east. The line opened around 1841.
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This iron works, in the south west of Coatbridge, was opened in by Robert Addie, Robert Miller and Patrick Rankin. A range of blast furnaces were built in an east-west orientation on the north bank of the Luggie Burn.
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Monkland Canal
The former site of the rail-served Langloan Ironworks looking east. ...
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Langloan East Junction Curve

With the lifting up of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway onto an embankment in 1871 a new curve opened, a new approach to the line replacing the original northern approach.

This was a junction on the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway controlled by a signal box on the east side of the line.
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See also
Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
Sheepford Branch (Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway)