Bedlay Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Bedlay Junction (1905-1967)Opened on the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.
Opened on the Bedlay Colliery (William Baird & Co).
Description
This was the junction for 1905 Bedlay Colliery opened on the 1826 Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway. The colliery line was single track and approached from the west. The M&K was double track by the opening of the colliery. A signal box opened in 1909 in the 'V' of the junction. A little to the east on the colliery branch was an exchange yard. There was a quarry siding (Drumcavel Rock Sand Works and Avenuehead Quarry) too.
Just to the west was Avenuehead Signal Box which was reduced to a gate box with the opening of the Bedlay Junction box.
The line west to Bridgend Junction closed around 1965-66 and the box at Bedlay Junction closed in 1967 by which time the route west was dismantled and line from Garnqueen South Junction reduced to a single line.
In 1969 the junction, now a reversing spur, was replaced by a new curve laid to the east . This allowed the construction of the M73 around 1970. The exchange yard partially survived the realignment.
Bedlay Colliery was mothballed in 1981 and formally closed in 1982 when then line closed.
The site of the junction is just to the west of the M73.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Bedlay Halt Garnqueen Bridgend [M and K] Glenboig Gartcosh Garnkirk Gartsherrie Gartsherrie [GGR] Gartsherrie [M and K] Blairhill Howes Stepps Coatbridge Sunnyside Bargeddie [NB] Woodley | Drumcavel Rock Sand Works Leckethill Junction Bedlay Colliery Siding Avenuehead Quarry Drumcavel Quarry Avenuehead Iron Pit Chryston Tunnel Bridge Bedlay Colliery Pit Glenboig Firebrick Works Star Fireclay Works Gartcosh Steelworks Garnqueen North Junction Tourist/other Avenuehead Signal Box Hayhill Brickworks Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
| The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and associated railways |
