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Gartshore Loops

Location type

Place

Name and dates

Gartshore Loops

Opened on the Bairds of Gartshore's Railway.
Opened on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.

Description

There are loops on either side of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Gartshore, historically the interchange point with the Bairds of Gartshore's Railway which ran north serving many coal pits. The Gartshore Exchange Sidings were just to the north.

When first opened there were no loops here, but the connection into the colliery line which was reached by reversing from the eastbound line. The signal box was located in the 'V' of the junction. The location was known as Gartshore Siding.

The Gartshore colliery was chiefly associated with William Baird and Co, of the Gartsherrie Iron Works but prior to Baird had been worked by Matthew Wallace and Company.

Loops were added to the east of the box, the westbound loop extending a little to the east of the box.

The box closed in 1971 when taken over by the nearby box to the east at Greenhill Upper Junction.

The loops still exist, slightly realigned.

Aliases

Gartshore Siding
04/12/2020

Nearby stations Croy Twechar Kilsyth (Old) Kilsyth (New) Dullator Colzium Greenfaulds Bridgend [M and K] Cumbernauld Bedlay Halt Woodley Back O Loch Halt Kirkintilloch [2nd] Kirkintilloch [1st] Garnqueen	Gartshore No 3 Colliery Gartshore Exchange Sidings Gartshore No 12 Colliery Gartshore Pit No 4 Gartshore Pits No 5 and 6 Gartshore No 1 Colliery Gartshore Coke Ovens Gartshore Coal Pit No 2 Coal Pit Gartshore Coal Pits Nos 9 and 11 Strone Coke Kilns Twechar Colliery Pit No 2 Baird^s Siding Tourist/other Bar Hill Fort Twechar Signal Box [Bairds]
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

Chronology Dates

/ /1860	William Baird & Co Forth and Clyde Canal Bairds of Gartshore's Railway Open mines at Twechar, Twechar Swing Bridge laid across the Forth and Clyde Canal for the private line which ran from Kilsyth to Gartshore Loops on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.