Coatbridge Tinplate Works

Location type

Works

Name and dates

Coatbridge Tinplate Works

Served by the Sheepford Branch (Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway).

Description

This tinplate works was located at Whifflet, south of Coatbridge, between Coatbank Street (to the east) and Dundyvan Basin (to the west). It was owned by the Coatbridge Tin Plate Co. The works was served from the north by the North British Railway and from the south by the Caledonian Railway. Sidings served various part of the works and there were turnplates to access certain parts.

Having been initially formed to make tinplate the works became a malleable iron works.

Railway access:
North British Railway - this was a siding from the Sheepford branch connection built in 1872 to replace the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway's original Sheepford branch alignment.
Caledonian Railway - this was a siding from the Wishaw and Coltness Railway's Dundyvan Basin branch built from the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway. (The W&CR had running powers, inherited by the CR, over the M&K between Whifflet [NB] (Dundyvan Basin Junction) and Whifflet East Junction.)

Tags

Tinplate works Malleable iron works
12/04/2022

Chronology Dates

02/06/1885Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
The Caledonian Railway is granted running powers to Coatbridge Tinplate Works from Whifflet South Junction.