Location type

Station

Names and dates

Commonhead (1840-1886)
Commonhead (Airdrie North) (1886-1930)

Opened on the Ballochney Railway.
Opened on the Hallcraig Street Branch (Ballochney Railway).

Description

This station was located between the upper and lower Ballochney Inclines on a short level section. It was at the junction between the Ballochney Railway and the Hallcraig Street Branch (Ballochney Railway) which ran to Airdrie Hallcraig Street.

To the west there were sidings on the south side, accessed from the junction (safety sidings from around 1860). To the east was the junction.

The later form of the station was a single platform on the north side of the junction with a North British Railway style station building. A signal box was located to the south side of the junction. The Hallcraig branch closed to passengers in 1870, eventually resulting in a change in name for the station here. A signal box opened in 1888. It could be switched out from 1927 (just before closure to passengers in 1930) and survived until 1959, around the time this ceased to be a junction (1956).

The railway closed here in 1964, the line from the west to Hallcraig being the last to close. The trackbeds have since been landscaped and turned into a footpath.

Tags

Station junction

External links

Canmore site record
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
06/08/2020

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