Garnqueen South Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Garnqueen South Junction (1848-1982)

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway.

Description

The 1826 Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway was met here by the 1848 Caledonian Railway. The Caledonian used the M&K route to reach Garnqueen East Junction to the south, so a short portion of the main line was one of the earliest railways belonged to the North British. There were restrictions on the NB for their use of this section of their line to avoid the blocking of expresses by slow moving mineral trains.

By the opening of the Caledonian the M&K was double track. The signal box (replaced 1899) was on the west side of the junction. Also here was a loop on the east side which served the Gartliston Fire Clay Works via a headshunt to the south. A little to the north, on the M&K, was a trailing connection to a branch east (passing under the Caledonian main line) to reach Rawmoan Fire Clay Pit and Gartverrie Fire Clay Works.

The M&K was cut back to serve Bedlay Colliery in 1965 and singled.

Bedlay Colliery mothballed in 1981, formally closed 1982, and the branch there closed in 1982. The signal box closed in 1983.

The box still exists having been dismantled and re-assembled at Bo'ness on the preserved Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway [Preserved].

Tags

Junction
03/08/2020


Chronology Dates

07/10/1844Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Caledonian Railway
Agreement between the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and Caledonian Railway about a connection at Gartsherrie NB Junction (later name) and another at Garnqueen South Junction for the Greenhill branch. The Caledonian would have running powers between the two locations,
  /  /1854Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Caledonian Railway
Agreement between the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and Caledonian Railway regarding running over the M&K between Gartsherrie NB Junction (later name) and Garnqueen South Junction for the Greenhill branch.
30/12/1907Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Caledonian Railway
Agreement between the North British Railway and the Caledonian Railway granting running powers in perpetuity between Gartsherrie NB Junction and Garnqueen South Junction.
11/12/1981Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
Bedlay Colliery closed, along with railway to the colliery - the Bedlay Colliery (William Baird & Co) line and the M&K from by Bedlay south to Garnqueen South Junction closed.

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Caledonian Dunalastairs and Associated Classes (Locomotive Monograph)

Caledonian in LMS Days (Railways in Retrospect)

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Carriages

Caledonian Railway Livery: The True Line Elegance and Style

Caledonian Railway Wagons & Non-Passenger Coaching Stock

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

Carlisle to Hawick: The Waverley Route (Scml)

Signalling the Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway 'jumbos' the 18in. X 26in. 0-6-0s

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History
The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and associated railways
The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian