This was a single platform station located to the immediate east of a junction, level crossing and the Ballochney Incline. It was on the Ballochney Railway at the point of division between the lines to Clarkston (West Moffat) and Ballochney Colliery.
The platform was on the north side of the Ballochney route line. There were simple timber buildings and a signal box, ^Rawyards West^ (1888), on the south side of the junction, opposite the platform. The Clarkston (West Moffat) line did not serve the platform.
Beyond the station, on the Ballochney route, was a yard and Rawyards Wagon Works (owned by Pickering of R Y Pickering Wagon Works), both on the north side. These were approached from the north east. Access was controlled by ^Rawyards East^ box (1888).
The station and line closed to passengers in 1930. The yard and works were out of use by the 1930s. The east box closed in 1945. The west box, by the level crossing, closed in 1958 when the line closed.
Nothing remains of the station, now the site of Northbrae Avenue and houses on its north side.
Nearby stations Commonhead (Airdrie North) Airdrie Hallcraig Street Airdrie [CR] Airdrie Drumgelloch [1st] Airdrie [Leaend] Whiterigg Drumgelloch Clarkston (Lanark) Clarkston (Wester Moffat) Coatdyke Kipps Calder Cairnhill Bridge Plains | Coal and Ironstone Pit Taylor^s Siding Rawyards Wagon Works Ironstone Pit Ballochney Incline Coal Pit Ironstone Pit Ironstone Pit Coal Pit Drumbathie Quarry Boots Airdrie Factory Chapelside Boiler Works Drumbathie Brick Works Coal Pit Standard Works |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |
/ /1828 | Ballochney Railway Rawyards station opened? |
01/05/1930 | Monkland and Kirkintilloch RailwayBallochney Railway
Slamannan Railway
Slamannan and Borrowstounness Railway Coatbridge (Greenside Junction) (excluded) to Manuel Low Level (excluded) closed to passengers. Commonhead, Rawyards, Airdrie Hallcraig Street, Whiterigg stations on the Ballochney Railway closed. Longriggend, Slamannan, Avonbridge, Blackston Junction, Bowhouse, Causewayend [MR] [2nd] closed. |
/ /1936 | Ballochney Railway Closed between Rawyards and Calderbank Branch Junction. |
01/09/1949 | Ballochney Railway Closed between Rawyards and Dykehead Junction. |
01/09/1949 | Ballochney Railway
Slamannan Railway Rawyards (excluded) to Ballochney Junction to Slamannan closed to freight. (Requires checking.) |
01/05/1956 | Ballochney Railway Closed between Commonhead and Rawyards. |
/ /1959 | Ballochney Railway Rawyards to Kipps Junction Incline Foot (excluded) closed. |