Cardowan Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Cardowan Signal Box (-1985)Opened on the Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway.
Description
The original signal box was on the north side of the line and in the 'V' of the junction of the line leading to Cardowan Fireclay Works, approached from the east.
Around 1930 a new box opened on the south side of the line just to the west of where the connection to the Cardowan Colliery exchange sidings took off from the main line to run to the south east. The colliery was accessed by reversal from the exchange yard.
The colliery closed in 1983 after a fire and the box closed in 1985.
Tags
Signal box junction colliery06/07/2019
| Nearby stations Stepps Stepps [1st] Garnkirk Robroyston Bridgend [M and K] Gartcosh Bedlay Halt Easterhouse Lenzie Kirkintilloch [1st] Woodley Garrowhill Shettleston Bargeddie [NB] Carntyne | Cardowan Fireclay Works Cardowan Fireclay Pit Cardowan Colliery Mine Steps Road Carriage Shed Saracen Tubeworks Garnkirk Fireclay Works Blackfaulds Siding Quarry Craigendmuir Depot Heathfield Fireclay Works Blackfaulds [End of line] Comedie Screens Tourist/other Gartloch Distillery Garnkirk House |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
| The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and associated railways |
