Sun Foundry
Location type
WorksNames and dates
Sun Tube Works (1880-1930)Sun Foundry (1930-1970)
Served by the North Monkland Railway.
Description
This tube works was established in the 1880s by the Clyde Tube Works. It was approached from a siding from the north from the North Monkland Railway. This siding was later looped with a new connection being made closer to Kipps Junction allowing access to the south over a weighbridge.
It was also known as the Sun Foundry.
It came to be owned by Stewarts and Lloyds.
The building remains open, now in a variety of steel stocking and steel erection purposes.
Tags
Steel works tube worksExternal links
Canmore site recordNLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series) | The Monkland & Kirkintilloch and associated railways |
