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Monkland And Kirkintilloch Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking north at the junction between the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and a short spur which connected it to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at an east facing junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/173.jpg "Waterside Junction?")
![Coatbridge Sunnyside station viewed from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/726.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![View looking north from Whifflet Upper over Whifflet Canal basin sidings.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/728.jpg "Whifflet Yard")
![Whifflet Basin sidings viewed from the south.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/937.jpg "Whifflet Yard")
![Calder Ironworks viewed from the east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/2000/2044.jpg "Calder Ironworks")
![No 17 hauling a loaded coal train to the exchange sidings at Bedlay.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6140.jpg "Bedlay Colliery")
![No 17 at an occupational crossing near Bedlay.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6141.jpg "Bedlay Colliery")
![A loaded coal train at Bedlay.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6146.jpg "Bedlay Colliery")
![No 9 rests at Bedlay Colliery. This locomotive can now be found at the Summerlee Museum.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6147.jpg "Bedlay Colliery")
![No 17 heads to the exchnage sidings with a loaded coal train at Bedlay.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6148.jpg "Bedlay Colliery")
![No 17 works hard taking a loaded coal train to the Bedlay exchange sidings.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6149.jpg "Bedlay Colliery")
![No 17 awaits its next turn at Bedlay. The colliery s in the background right.<br><br>[Andy Kirkham //]](/images/6000/6150.jpg "Bedlay Colliery")
![Aerial view of Whifflet (top right) to Carnbroe (left). The route of the W&CR is clear but also here was the M&KR running from bottom centre to the works (centre) and then to Whifflet (top right). Note the sidings still in the works.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/7000/7260.jpg "Whifflet")
![A DMU crosses the E&G viaduct over the M&K trackbed at Garngaber.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13968.jpg "Garngaber")
![Pile of stone sleepers seen on the <i>Bulls horns</i> east of Lenzie where there was transhipment between the E&G and M&K lines. The M&K passed under the viaduct seen to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13969.jpg "Bulls Horns")
![Sign at Whitegates, south of Kirkintilloch Basin.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/13000/13974.jpg "Kirkintilloch [1st]")
![An EE Type 1 with a Bedlay Colliery - Ravenscraig coal train, thought to have been photographed in the late 1970s. The train is running south from Glenboig Level Crossing towards Garnqueen South Junction. The view is from the Caledonian Railway's Hayhill Branch (Gartcosh Junction to Garnqueen North Junction).<br><br>[Alastair McLellan //]](/images/28000/28091.jpg "Glenboig level crossing")
![A 1980s view of Garnqueen South signal box in its original location before re-erection at Bo'ness. A train is making an exit from the Bedlay branch, as the Monkland and Kirkintilloch had become by this date. [See image 54242]<br><br>[Alastair McLellan //]](/images/54000/54196.jpg "Garnqueen South Junction")
![A 20 with a loaded coal train heads south at Garnqueen South Junction in the 1980s. The works in the background is the Gartliston Fire Clay Works, a brick works now closed and largely demolished.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan //]](/images/54000/54211.jpg "Garnqueen South Junction")
![Ivatt 4MT 2-6-0 43138 at Sunnyside Junction with a goods train on 26 August 1958, having arrived via the freight only line from Whifflet. The platforms of Coatbridge Sunnyside station are visible through the road bridge, above which stands the old booking office.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1958]](/images/49000/49748.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![A Hyndland - Airdrie train passing Sunnyside Junction, Coatbridge, on 26 August 1958 behind Gresley V1 2-6-2T no 67655.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1958]](/images/49000/49850.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![Looking east towards Coatbridge Sunnyside station on 26 August 1958 as V1 67621 prepares to restart an Airdrie - Partickhill train. On the right the freight only line to Whifflet turns south. <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1958]](/images/52000/52207.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![V1 67621 westbound at Sunnyside Junction on 26 August 1958, shortly after restarting an Airdrie - Partickhill train from Coatbridge Sunnyside station.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 26/08/1958]](/images/52000/52684.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![Class Y9 0-4-0ST no 68108 on shed at Kipps in March 1959. The locomotive was withdrawn from here towards the end of that year and cut up at Cowlairs in January of 1960.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) 23/03/1959]](/images/25000/25214.jpg "Kipps")
![Locomotives stabled in the sidings alongside Kipps shed, thought to be in 1960, with J72 0-6-0T no 68733 standing centre stage. Built by Armstrong Whitworth in 1922, this example was eventually withdrawn from Hamilton West in July 1962. Gresley N2 0-6-2T no 69596 on the right was already nearing its end by this time and was withdrawn from here in September 1960. <br><br>[K A Gray //1960]](/images/41000/41831.jpg "Kipps")
![Whifflet (N.B.R.) N.B.R. 0.6.2T 69163.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/05/1961]](/images/10000/10348.jpg "Whifflet [NB]")
![Gresley class V3 2-6-2T no 67674 stands at Kipps shed (65E) in 1961.<br>
<br><br>[K A Gray 03/07/1961]](/images/25000/25553.jpg "Kipps")
![Shed scene at Kipps (65E) in July 1961, two years before official closure to steam (although the shed continued as a diesel stabling point for several years). Line up left to right is V3 2-6-2T no 67674, J88 0-6-0 no 68345 and J35 0-6-0 no 64472. Demolition and clearance of the remains of Kipps shed took place in 1975.<br><br>[K A Gray 03/07/1961]](/images/29000/29208.jpg "Kipps")
![67675 about to run through Sunnyside Junction in August 1961 with a North Clyde service for Airdrie. The train is about to pass below Gartsherrie Road to reach its next stop at Coatbridge Sunnyside station. [Editor's note: The area occupied by the lifted sidings on the left is now part of Summerlee Industrial Heritage Museum] [See image 26202] <br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 01/08/1961]](/images/49000/49145.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![Reid J35 0-6-0 no 64507 stands in the shed yard at Kipps in September 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/09/1961]](/images/34000/34195.jpg "Kipps")
![An ex-WD Austerity 2-8-0 runs tender first through Coatbridge Sunnyside in September 1961 heading for Kipps shed.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/09/1961]](/images/34000/34904.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Modified class J36 no 65285 stands in the shed yard at Kipps on 25 September 1961. This was one of the locomotives with a cut down chimney and cab to cope with restricted clearance on the Gartsherrie branch.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/09/1961]](/images/35000/35619.jpg "Kipps")
![Gresley V3 2-6-2T no 67648 stands on 65E Kipps shed, Coatbridge, in September 1961.<br><br>[K A Gray 25/09/1961]](/images/37000/37008.jpg "Kipps")
![J35 0-6-0 no 64472 stands on Kipps shed, Coatbridge, in September 1961. <br><br>[K A Gray 25/09/1961]](/images/43000/43206.jpg "Kipps")
![Scene alongside the coaling plant and water tank at 65E Kipps MPD circa 1962 with class J36 0-6-0 locomotive 65216 <I>Byng</I> nearest the camera and J35 0-6-0 no 64472 behind.<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962]](/images/20000/20282.jpg "Kipps")
![Locomotives at 65E Kipps shed, Coatbridge, in 1962 include J35 0-6-0 no 64472 (centre) with J36 0-6-0 no 65216 <I>Byng</I> standing beyond. Kipps was officially closed to steam in January 1963 following which it saw use as a diesel stabling point for several years before being finally demolished in 1975. <br>
<br><br>[Robin Barbour Collection (Courtesy Bruce McCartney) //1962]](/images/26000/26063.jpg "Kipps")
![Drummond ex-Caledonian 0F 0-4-0ST <I>Pug</I> no 56029 of 1895, seen here in the sidings alongside Kipps shed in August 1963. By this time the locomotive had been officially withdrawn for 8 months and the shed had been closed to steam for over 6 months.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 25/08/1963]](/images/22000/22947.jpg "Kipps")
![Holmes Y9 0-4-0ST no 68104 photographed out of use at Kipps in August 1963. Built in the latter years of the 19th century around half the class (but not this example) were permanently coupled to wooden tenders. Many of these versatile engines were <I>hired out</I> by BR from time to time, with 68104 spending a period at the Phoenix Tube Works in Rutherglen in 1961. The locomotive was cut up at Cowlairs a month after this photograph was taken.<br><br>[David Pesterfield 25/08/1963]](/images/23000/23502.jpg "Kipps")
![The signal box at Whifflet East Junction, as viewed from Whifflet Street bridge on 7 March 1971, with the RB Tennent works in the background. It appears to have been replaced by a ground frame on the opening of Motherwell Power Box.<br><br>[Bill Jamieson 07/03/1971]](/images/37000/37053.jpg "Whifflet East Junction")
![Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway bridge under Muckcroft Road N of Bridgend Junction c. 1980.<br><br>[Alistair MacKenzie //1980]](/images/14000/14684.jpg "Chryston")
![An attempt at <I>heritagisation</I> at Coatbridge Sunnyside. Note the reproduction cast-iron seatback inserts. August 1985.<br><br>[David Panton /08/1985]](/images/17000/17164.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![View looking west from Gartsherrie Road over Sunnyside Junction in 1987. The line running off to the south is the freight only link to Whifflet South Junction. The line turning north under the bridge alongside the signal box latterly served Gartsherrie cement works and Gunnie Yard. The land beyond the fence on the left is part of Summerlee Heritage Museum.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/0/727.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![An eastbound class 303 EMU calls at Coatbridge Sunnyside with an Airdrie service in 1987. The old booking office on Gartsherrie Road spanning the platforms in the background has since been removed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7765.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Line seen at Glenboig running north to Bedlay from a Cumbernauld-Glasgow DMU passing on the Hayhill Branch of the Caledonian.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7860.jpg "Glenboig")
![Whifflet Central Junction (NB) looking north. Behind the camera the lines to Palacecraig and Hamilton parted. Tennents works on right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7974.jpg "Whifflet Central Junction")
![Whifflet Central Junction (NB) looking south. The line to Palacecraig ran off to the left and to Hamilton to the right. The works is now disconnected from the railway network. Update - the works is now closed and demolished and lines lifted.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7975.jpg "Whifflet Central Junction")
![Woodleys Junction looking north. Left; line to Kirkintilloch Basin. Right; line to Middlemuir Junction on the Campsie Branch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7993.jpg "Woodleys Junction")
![A short section of the West Coast Mainline belonged to the North British. Looking north from Heatherbell Level Crossing to Garnqueen South Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8017.jpg "Heatherbell Level Crossing")
![A short section of the West Coast Mainline belonged to the North British. Looking south from Heatherbell Level Crossing to Gartsherrie East Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8018.jpg "Heatherbell Level Crossing")
![The Sheepford branch railway crosses over the (dry) Sheepford branch of the Monkland Canal.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8023.jpg "Sheepford")
![Garnqueen South Junction looking south towards Coatbridge. This view was taken over a fence looking to the former junction site in 1987. The signalbox from here can now be found at re-erected at Bo'ness [see image 20613]. The chimney belonged to the closed Gartliston Fireclay works.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/51000/51066.jpg "Garnqueen South Junction")
![The refurbished 303a had no guards van, so the guard had to utilise the rear driving position to bell the train away. The date on the gable plaque reads 1888<br><br>[Brian Forbes //1988]](/images/10000/10846.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Possibly to reflect the name, Sunnyside Junction box, neighbouring bridges and the street level building at the station were all painted yellow. The street level building was removed some time in 1988. The box closed as the Yoker resignalling took control of the area.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1989]](/images/59000/59773.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![An industrial shunter doing some light shunting at Castle Cement, Gunnie. Gunnie Yard (out of shot to the right reached by a fly-over) became the exchange sidings for the cement works. The (now) closed cement works was the only part of Bairds Iron and Steelworks to remain.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /12/1989]](/images/15000/15490.jpg "Gunnie Yard")
![View south at Bridgend Junction in 1997 seen from the site of the signalbox. Here the M&K (right) met the North British's 1895 connection to the E&G at Waterside Junction (left). The box also served Auchengeich Colliery (1909-1965) to the south. Opening of this box and junction led to the closure of Garngaber Low Junction (at Muckcroft LC) where the single track lines from Middlemuir Junction and Garngaber High Junction met after running parallel for a considerable distance - the closure of Garngaber Low leading to an increase in that distance. Lines to Middlemuir and Waterside closed in 1959 leaving the original M&K the only line open until its closure in 1965. Pumping operations continued at Auchengeich until 1968 when Wester Auchengeich Colliery (nearby and served by Cadder Yard) closed.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/53000/53875.jpg "Bridgend Junction")
![This was the original Garngaber Low Junction looking north. The trackbed to the left was an M&K built curve 'the bull's horns' which led to Garngaber High Junction on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and the trackbed to the right was the original line running north to Kirkintilloch Basin. When this was the junction, the line continued south as a single track to east of Muckcroft where it doubled.<br><br>
Later the junction was moved further south and east to Muckcroft Level Crossing and the lines ran as two parallel single track railways to that point. With the opening of the connection from Bridgend Junction to Waterside the second Garngaber Low Junction's box closed and the two lines ran independently even further east to Bridgend Junction.<br><br>
This location has since been obliterated with the opening of the new A806 through Kirkintilloch.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1997]](/images/53000/53885.jpg "Garngaber Low Junction [1st]")
![The Meadow Works of Sheffield Forgemasters (formerly RB Tennents) seen from the north in 1998. By this date the works' railway was isolated from the network. A sentinel locomotive can be seen peeping out the building to the left. The works closed in 2003.<br><br>This was the point of divergence between the M&K line to Palacecraig (left) and the later NB line to Hamilton via Bellshill (right).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/52000/52917.jpg "Whifflet Central Junction")
![Eastbound train at Sunnyside Jct. The line in the foreground goes to Whifflet S.Jct. and the line under the bridge, to Gunnie yard & Gartsherrie. <br><br>[Brian Forbes //1999]](/images/10000/10730.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![Looking east at Kipps. This was the end of the branch from Coatbridge and the start of the Ballochney Railway. Kipps MPD was to the left and Mosside Wagon Works to the right.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford /09/1999]](/images/19000/19227.jpg "Kipps")
![View west at Kirkintilloch's Middlemuir Basin slipway. This was before reinstatement of a basin at Kirkintilloch with the re-opening of the canal. The new dock has a different footprint to the original which had two basins. The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway terminated at the basin which was located to the left. The slipway shown here has received a huge makeover.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2001]](/images/51000/51073.jpg "Kirkintilloch Basin")
![The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway originally ran at street level through Coatbridge, which led to increasing congestion. In 1872 it was raised onto the bridge seen in the background, the Caley line is beyond. The Whitelaw Fountain, seen here in 2001, commemorates the new bridge and re-alignment. The fountain itself was relocated to aid traffic flow. Alexander Whitelaw of Baird & Co, owners of the Gartsherrie Ironworks whose trains were often delayed, was the instigator of the new line.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2001]](/images/52000/52598.jpg "Coatbridge Central [NB]")
![Faskine, on the Monkland Canal, was the opposite extremity of the line from Kirkintilloch. The canal can be seen to the right. This no doubt unrelated rail is embedded in the ground on the north bank. There was a colliery here and colliery lines continued north to Cairnhill, realigned as various pits opened and closed. Faskine is where Scotland's first iron boat 'Vulcan' was launched.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2001]](/images/53000/53523.jpg "Faskine")
![RB Tennat seen from across the tracks at Whifflet during the demolition of the works in 2001.<br><br>[Bill Roberton //2001]](/images/54000/54459.jpg "Whifflet")
![Part of the refurbished 1888 station building at Coatbridge Sunnyside looking east from Gatsherrie Road in May 2005. The Lamberton Engineering building stands in the left background.<br><br>[John Furnevel 02/05/2005]](/images/58000/58674.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![A Helensburgh - Airdrie train photographed during the stop at Coatbridge Sunnyside in May 2005. The square brick-faced pillar reaching up from platform level into the centre foreground of the picture once helped support a street level booking office on Gartsherrie Road. [See image 7765]<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2005]](/images/31000/31682.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![A Helensburgh - Airdrie service runs east under Gartsherrie Road bridge and into Coatbridge Sunnyside station in May 2005. The line immediately beyond the metal fence running off to the right is the single line freight only link between Sunnyside Junction and Whifflet South Junction [see image 22309].<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2005]](/images/46000/46929.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![SPT liveried 320318 restarts a Helensburgh Central - Airdrie service from Coatbridge Sunnyside on 9 May 2005.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2005]](/images/53000/53811.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![The refurbished and re-roofed main building at Coatbridge Sunnyside in the spring of 2005, with the Lamberton Engineering Works building looking on from the north side of the line.<br><br>[John Furnevel 09/05/2005]](/images/55000/55519.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![<I>NO, NO, NO!....you put your left leg OUT!</I>... One of the many quiet periods on the section between Whifflet South and Sunnyside Junctions, thus its use on this occasion for much needed staff dancing practice. <br><br>[John Furnevel 24/08/2006]](/images/10000/10634.jpg "Whifflet")
![A westbound service stops at Coatbridge Sunnyside in January 2007 alongside the 1888 station building.<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2007]](/images/13000/13133.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![A Balloch train heads west at Sunnyside Junction, shortly after leaving Coatbridge Sunnyside station in January 2007. The line coming in bottom centre is from Whifflet South Junction and the partially lifted line heading off centre right under the bridge once ran to Gunnie Yard. On the left of the picture are some of the exhibits at the Summerlee Heritage Museum and on the horizon stand the cranes of Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal.<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2007]](/images/13000/13139.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![Looking east from below the bridge leaving Coatbridge Central towards the lattice girder bridge carrying the Sunnyside - Whifflet South Junction freight line over the Monkland Canal basin in Jan 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2007]](/images/13000/13432.jpg "Coatbridge Central [NB]")
![Having just left Coatbridge Sunnyside on 16 January a Balloch train is about to cross Sunnyside Junction where sections of rail have been removed from the link which once turned north under the bridge towards Gunnie Yard. The line coming in bottom left is from Whifflet South Junction. One of the cranes of Coatbridge Freightliner Terminal can just be seen in the top left corner of the picture.<br><br>[John Furnevel 16/01/2007]](/images/13000/13234.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![Main station building at Coatbridge Sunnyside looking west, 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 29/01/2007]](/images/13000/13190.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Train for Drumgelloch leaving Coatbridge Sunnyside in January 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 29/01/2007]](/images/13000/13237.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![320 320 arrives at Coatbridge Sunnyside with an Airdrie train on a wet 18 August 2007.<br><br>[David Panton 18/08/2007]](/images/20000/20181.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![View north at Heatherbell LC between Gartsherrie S and Garnqueen N Jct on 25 Sept 2007 as a Motherwell - Cumbernauld service approaches.<br><br>[John Furnevel /09/2007]](/images/39000/39558.jpg "Heatherbell Level Crossing")
![A Motherwell - Cumbernauld service runs over Heatherbell level crossing on 25 September 2007 on its way from Gartsherrie South to Garnqueen North Junction. In the right background stand chimneys of the former Gartliston fireclay works, whose products once lined many a blast furnace in the Coatbridge area and beyond.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/09/2007]](/images/16000/16787.jpg "Heatherbell level crossing")
![The 10.04 (Tuesdays & Fridays only) Mossend - Deanside <I>Enterprise</I> freight service approaching Sunnyside Junction behind EWS 67027 on 30 January 2009 via the freight-only line from Whifflet South Junction. This is thought to be the only regular scheduled service currently routed over the former CGU Clydebridge Viaduct.<br>
<br><br>[Andy Kirkham 30/01/2009]](/images/22000/22309.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![A Helensburgh Central service arrives at Coatbridge Sunnyside on 1 July 2009.<br><br>[John Steven 01/07/2009]](/images/24000/24381.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![An eastbound service runs into Coatbridge Sunnyside on 1 July on its way to Drumgelloch<br><br>[John Steven 01/07/2009]](/images/24000/24399.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Looking north towards Whifflet (NB). Behind the camera the routes to Hamilton and Palacecraig divided. The Tennents works was located here on the right and the building seen on the right is the only part remaining. The line here remained in use as an internal line even after the connection to the railway network had fallen out of use. This photograph was taken to compare with another of mine take 22 years before. The building on the right is of shot to the right in the earlier photograph. [See image 7974].<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 26/09/2009]](/images/25000/25599.jpg "Whifflet Central Junction")
![On 28 October 2009, unit 320 305 picks up at Sunnyside with a Helensburgh service. For some reason its numbers on this end have been peeled off. Though almost identical to Class 321s, used by several operators in England, 320s are exclusive to the North Clyde Lines; they are unable to use the linked Argyle Line due to clearance restrictions, so while other classes are found north of the Clyde (routinely on the Milngavie branch) the reverse doesn't apply. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 28/10/2009]](/images/26000/26163.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![A pair of 320s passing at Sunnyside Junction, just to the west of Coatbridge Sunnyside station, on 28 October 2009. The line south to Whifflet Junction can be seen turning off bottom left here, while in the centre right, hidden behind the trains, is the remains of the junction that latterly served Gunnie Yard and Gartsherrie Cement Works to the north. In the centre left of the picture is part of the Summerlee Industrial museum site.<br><br>[David Panton 28/10/2009]](/images/26000/26202.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![Looking north west along the trackbed of the Monkland and Kirkintilloch railway at Glenboig on 9 March 2010. [See image 3013 in Notes & Queries]<br><br>[John Robin 09/03/2010]](/images/28000/28042.jpg "Glenboig")
![View south towards Sunnyside Junction from the former Gartsherrie line in June 2010.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 27/06/2010]](/images/29000/29901.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![On 14 August the main station building at Coatbridge Sunnyside is caught in the middle of repainting with fresh FSR colours on the woodwork while the ironwork is still in SPT maroon and cream. The effect is almost that of a doctored image. (It isn't!)<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30293.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![320 315 stands at the eastbound platform at Coatbridge Sunnyside with an Airdrie service. In a few short months lucky Coatbridgers will be able to catch a regular service from that platform to Edinburgh (should that be their wish).<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30433.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![320 310 approaches Sunnyside from Airdrie with a Balloch service on <br>
16 October. Facing the other way is a mysterious 'no aspect' signal. I'm guessing the short stretch of the Down Line from Sunnyside Junction [see image 13234] is no longer bidirectional to this point, after the severing of the junction for the Gunnie branch, and that this fixed danger signal is now redundant. Either that or the bulb has gone.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 16/10/2010]](/images/31000/31167.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![The current Coatbridge Central got its coveted suffix only in 1953: the previous Central station was the former North British one which closed two years earlier. The line, between Sunnyside and Whifflet South Junctions, remains and a girder bridge carrying it is a local <br>
landmark, although it is little-used. It runs parallel here with the passenger line through the current Coatbridge Central. All that remains of the NB station however is an underpass, seen here looking from Sunnyside Road on 5 February.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 05/02/2011]](/images/32000/32682.jpg "Coatbridge Central [NB]")
![An Edinburgh to Helensburgh service, formed by Saltire liveried 334006, pauses at Coatbridge Sunnyside after a run along the new <I>A to B line</I>. Resurfacing and other work was taking place on the car park and station forecourt here on this date. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/04/2011]](/images/33000/33654.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Having left Coatbridge Sunnyside station heading for Helensburgh 334006 is just passing Sunnyside Junction where the freight only line from Whifflet trails in [See image 10949]. Immediately beyond here, but hidden by the train, the former line to Gunnie yard branched off to the right.<br><br>[Mark Bartlett 14/04/2011]](/images/33000/33775.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Remains of the former NB station at Coatbridge Central on 1 April 2013. The station closed to passengers in September 1951. [Ref query 4559]<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 01/04/2013]](/images/47000/47339.jpg "Coatbridge Central [NB]")
![View west over Sunnyside Junction, Coatbridge, on 10 August 2013. Sunnyside station is behind the camera and the freight only line from Whifflet South comes in from the left. Part of Summerlee Industrial Heritage Centre stands in the background. [See image 22309]<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 10/08/2013]](/images/44000/44185.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![View along the westbound platform at Coatbridge Sunnyside on 10 August.<br><br>[Veronica Clibbery 10/08/2013]](/images/44000/44191.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Platform scenes at Coatbridge Sunnyside on 18 February 2014. The station has been adopted by Glenboig House with Clydesdale Community Initiatives.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 18/02/2014]](/images/46000/46374.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![NHS planters on the eastbound platform at Coatbridge Sunnyside on 8 September 2015, with the Lamberton Building in the background. The train arriving is the 0910 Helensburgh Central - Edinburgh Waverley.<br><br>[John Yellowlees 08/09/2015]](/images/52000/52525.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![The railhead treatment unit returning to Mossend shortly afte rSunnyside Junction on the Whifflet Loop on the 30th of October. Barely visable through the trees is the 311 unit (311 103) stored at Summerlee Heritage Park.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 30/10/2015]](/images/53000/53199.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![The 'Leaf Train' leaving the Whifflet Loop for the main line.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 10/10/2016]](/images/56000/56839.jpg "Whifflet")
![The 'leaf train' on the Whifflet Loop line, passing the site of the former NB station (closed 1930) [see image 10348].<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 10/10/2016]](/images/56000/56917.jpg "Whifflet [NB]")
![68004 passing over Heatherbell level crossing with the Edinburgh Waverley to Motherwell empty coaching movement on the morning of 15/12/16.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 15/12/2016]](/images/58000/58118.jpg "Heatherbell Level Crossing")
![The Sunnyside Coffee Company is based in the station building at Coatbridge Sunnyside. A small modification is needed to the station sign - it is of course the Summerlee Heritage Centre not Museum!<br><br>[John Yellowlees 27/04/2017]](/images/59000/59317.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![The Sunnyside Coffee Co is now open at Coatbridge Sunnyside station within the station building. <a href=https://en-gb.facebook.com/sunnysidecoffeeco/ target=external>Sunnyside Coffee Co</a><br>
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<br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/05/2017]](/images/59000/59290.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Here are Lindsey Milne and Chris Tierney on their second day behind the counter of the Sunnyside Coffee Company at Coatbridge Sunnyside. <a href=https://en-gb.facebook.com/sunnysidecoffeeco/ target=external>Coatbridge Sunnyside</a><br><br>[John Yellowlees 09/05/2017]](/images/59000/59291.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![37025 passing through Coatbridge Sunnyside station with the Network Rail track recording train with 37219 on the rear.(06/07/17)<br>
<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 06/07/2017]](/images/60000/60197.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![Colas 37219 on the Network Rail track recording train approaching Sunnyside Jct from the Whifflet loop. Large Logo 37025 is on the rear (06/07/17)<br>
<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 06/07/2017]](/images/60000/60203.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![334024 passing the site of Sunnyside Junction signal box in July 2017, with the track into Gunnie Yard still visible. To the left is the entrance to the mock drift mine at Summerlee Heritage Park and also visible alongside the main line are NCB No.9 and two other preserved industrial locomotives. <br>
<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 12/07/2017]](/images/60000/60189.jpg "Sunnyside Junction")
![The Leaf Train on route to Airdrie passing a Milngavie service at Coatbridge Sunnyside.<br><br>[Alastair McLellan 23/10/2017]](/images/61000/61807.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
![A 6-car Airdrie to Balloch service calls at Sunnyside on 14 November.<br><br>[David Panton 14/11/2017]](/images/61000/61949.jpg "Coatbridge Sunnyside")
