Gateside Junction
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Gateside Junction (-1960)Opened on the Clydesdale Junction Railway.
Description
This junction was just west of Newton station. A siding ran south east to Gateside Colliery. On the north side was the start of a mineral line loop which ran north east and passed through Westburn Colliery before re-joining the line immediately west of Newton. The signal box was south of Gateside Junction.
The signal box was moved further west (or replaced). With the opening of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway a new 1904 link from that line to the Lanarkshire and Dumbartonshire Railway passed overhead of the main line. The Westburn Colliery loop was removed, left as a short siding from the Newtom end.
Gateside box lasted until 1960.
The junction end of the Gateside Colliery line is now overgrown, the colliery and brick works end is now housing.
| Nearby stations Kirkhill Cambuslang Newton Carmyle Newton [1st] Mount Vernon Tollcross Burnside Mount Vernon North Broomhouse Calderpark Halt Rutherglen [2nd] Calderwood Glen Platform Rutherglen [1st] Rutherglen | Newton PW Depot Kirkhill Junction Gateside Colliery Kirkhill Colliery Kirkhill Tunnel Westburn Colliery Kirkhill Goods Westburn Steel Works Newton West Junction Clyde Nail Works Gilbertfield Colliery and Brick Works Clydesmill Power Station Newton Kirkhill Junction Tourist/other Busheyhill Signal Box Westburn Souh Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
