|
c6500-4000 BC |
Evidence of settlement by hunter-gatherer tribes as
far back as the Mesolithic Age (c6500-4000 BC) |
|
AD 1450 |
Lochend Loch Crannog - an Iron age dwelling
house made from wood and thatch, on an artificial
island. Last year of usage? |
|
c1161 |
The Drumpellier estate was the site of the original
Grange built by the monks of Newbattle Abbey. |
|
1162 |
Monklands
area gifted by Royal
Charter of
King Malcolm IV to the Cistercian Abbey
of Newbattle |
|
1224 |
Gift was confirmed but now also
mentioned the land that lies along the (Clud) Clyde
at Kermil or Kermyle (Carmyle). |
|
1323 |
the name Munklands was first recorded in the
Steward's Charter of the year |
|
1650 |
the
Barony of Monklands was split into two parishes: New Monkland and Old Monkland |
|
1740 |
Monks Chapel at Kipps farm falls out of use - was
used as courthouse or chapel and a tithing centre -
used more for civil than religious matters |
|
12/04/1770 |
Royal Assent granted for the construction of the
Monkland Canal |
|
June 1770 |
Work Commences on the Monkland Canal |
|
1773 |
Initial subscription of £10,000 runs out, work stops
with the canal 2 miles short of Glasgow City Centre. |
|
1782 |
Canal sold and new owners who complete construction
of the canal to Castle Street. |
|
1790 |
Canal authorised to extend to join Forth and Clyde
Canal and from Sheepford to the River Calder |
|
1791 |
Faskine Colliery, first major colliery in Airdrie
commences production. |
|
1791 |
Junction with F&C opened to navigation. |
|
1799 |
Branch opened to Greenend to serve Colliery.
Later extended to Calder Iron Wks (Dixon's Cut) |
|
1800 |
Waggonway constructed from Legbrannock colliery to
Monkland Canal |
|
1802 |
Calder Steel & Iron Co. commence production. |
|
1805-1815 |
Development of collieries at Cairnhill & Kippsbyre, |
|
1816 |
Alexander Baird commences development of Rochsolloch,
Drumpellier and Gartsherrie Collieries. |
|
17/05/1824 |
Royal Assent granted for the Monkland &
Kirkintilloch Railway |
|
1826 |
Monklands Iron & Steel Co. open Chapelhall Iron
Works |
|
5/05/1826 |
Royal Assent granted for the Ballochney Railway |
|
10/1826 |
M&K opened in full (Palacecraig to Kirkintilloch) |
|
05/1826 |
Royal Assent granted for the Garnkirk & Glasgow
Railway |
|
08/08/1828 |
Ballochney Railway fully opened |
|
1829 |
Gartsherrie Branch of Monkland Canal Opens |
|
1829 |
Wishaw & Coltness Railway Authorised |
|
1830 |
Whiterigg Branch (Ballochney Rly) constructed |
|
4/5/1830 |
William Baird commences operations at Gartsherrie
Iron Works |
|
1831 |
Monkland & Kirkintilloch commence using steam
traction. |
|
05/1831 |
G&G commences freight operations |
|
06/1831 |
Passenger service commences between Leaend and
Townhead |
|
27/08/1831 |
Formal opening of G&G |
|
1833 |
Dundyvan Iron Works commences production |
|
1833 |
M&K Act for Rosehall and Gunnie Branches introduced. |
|
23/01/1834 |
Whifflet-Holytown section of Wishaw & Coltness
Opened |
|
1835 |
Calderbank Iron Works Commence Production |
|
1835 |
Dykehead Branch (Ballochney Rly) Opened from
Craigmaukin to Dykehead |
|
03/07/1835 |
Royal Assent granted for the Slamannan Railway |
|
1837 |
Summerlee Iron Works Commences Production |
|
1837 |
Rosehall Branch (M&K) opened (the “tunnel” branch). |
|
1838 |
Carnbroe Iron Works Commences Production |
|
1838 |
Mosside Locomotive Works (M&K) Established |
|
07/1840 |
Slamannan Railway opened to traffic |
|
1841 |
Langloan Iron Works Commences Production |
|
05/1841 |
Dykehead branch (Ballochney Railway) extended to
Darngavil |
|
02/1843 |
Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway extended from Gartsherrie
to Coatbridge. (site of existing Coatbridge Central
Station) |
|
1843 |
Drumpellier Railway opened from Cuilhill on the
Monkland Canal to collieries in the Bargeddie Area. |
|
09/03/1844 |
Wishaw and Coltness opened throughout. |
|
|
Passenger service between Leaend and Townhead
withdrawn |
|
26/12/1844 |
Passenger Service Between Hallcraig St and E&G
Commenced |
|
07/1844 |
Garnkirk & Glasgow Railway becomes Glasgow, Garnkirk
& Coatbridge Railway. Whifflet extension authorised |
|
06/08/1844 |
Parliamentary Authorisation for change of gauge –
Wishaw & Coltness Railway |
|
30/06/1845 |
Parliamentary Authorisation for change of gauge –
Glasgow Garnkirk & Coatbridge Railway, Monkland &
Kirkintilloch Railway |
|
14/07/1845 |
Glasgow, Garnkirk & Coatbridge Railway extended from
Coatbridge to Whifflet. (Flat junction over Rosehall
Branch built) |
|
31/07/1845 |
Caledonian Railway Authorised |
|
01/01/1846 |
Garnkirk & Coatbridge Railway leased by Caledonian
Railway, |
|
01/01/1846 |
Wishaw & Coltness Railway leased by Caledonian
Railway |
|
26/06/1846 |
Parliamentary Authorisation for change of gauge –
Ballochney Railway |
|
16/07/1846 |
Parliamentary Authorisation for change of gauge –
Slamannan Railway |
|
July –Aug 1847 |
Change of gauge Monkland & Kirkintilloch, Ballochney
and Slamannan Railways |
|
26/07/1847 |
Change of gauge, Glasgow, Garnkirk & Coatbridge and
Wishaw & Coltness Railways |
|
1848 |
Construction of Caldercruix Mills |
|
15/02/1848 |
Caledonian Railway commence running from Glasgow to
the South |
|
07/08/1848 |
Caledonian Railway Castlecary branch opened (Garnqueen
South Junction) |
|
14/08/1848 |
Monkland Railways formed by amalgamation of Monkland
& Kirkintilloch, Ballochney and Slamannan Railways |
|
1851 |
Drumpellier Railway taken under control of Forth and
Clyde Navigation |
|
Nov 1855 |
Calderbank Branch (to Calderbank Iron Works) opened
to traffic |
| 1857 |
R. B. Tennent &
Co. opened their Whiffiet Foundry
for roll making. |
|
10/05/1861 |
Mineral traffic commenced on Monkland Railways “New
Line” (Bathgate – Kipps) |
|
11/08/1862 |
Monkland Railways Bathgate – Kipps opened to
passenger traffic |
|
01/12/1863 |
Coatbridge Sunnyside Station Opened |
|
1864 |
Map |
|
1864 |
Kipps Locomotive Shed opened (probable date based on
map) |
|
31/07/1865 |
Monklands Railway Company absorbed by Edinburgh and
Glasgow. |
|
01/08/1865 |
Edinburgh & Glasgow Absorbed by North British |
|
20/09/1865 |
Rutherglen & Coatbridge (Caledonian) Opened to Goods
Traffic (1864 map shows track in place between
Whifflet and Bargeddie, but spur from Langloan
Junction to Coatbridge Junction still to be built) |
|
08/01/1866 |
Rutherglen & Coatbridge (Caledonian) Opened to
Passenger Traffic |
|
1868 |
Lease on Rosehall Branch would expire |
|
1868 |
Dundyvan Iron Works Closes Down |
|
Dec 1870 |
Passenger service to Hallcraig St Withdrawn. |
|
01/02/1871 |
Sunnyside Junction – Glasgow (College) opened |
|
1872 |
Former M&K route diversion to bridge over
Edinburgh-Glasgow Road Completed |
|
16/07/1874 |
Glasgow, Bothwell & Hamilton Railway Authorised |
|
01/11/1878 |
Whifflet – Bothwell opened to Goods Traffic |
|
01/05/1879 |
Whifflet – Bothwell opened to Passenger Traffic |
|
01/08/1879 |
Glasgow, Bothwell & Hamilton Railway Absorbed by
North British (having been operated by NB since
mid-summer) |
|
19/04/1886 |
Airdrie Branch opened to Goods Traffic. Wooden
Locomotive shed with two roads, 42ft turntable and
coal stage opened by Airdrie station. A sub-shed of
Dawsholm. |
|
01/06/1886 |
Airdrie Branch (Caledonian) Opened to Passenger
Traffic |
|
01/06/1886 |
Old Whifflet Caledonian Station closed and replaced
by Whifflet Low Level Station |
|
1887 |
Calderbank Iron & Steel Works Close Down |
|
20/08/1887 |
Fatal accident occurs when Calderbank viaduct
collapses and locomotive and wagons fall into valley
below. |
|
01/09/1887 |
Cairnhill Junction– Chapelhall opened |
|
1888 |
Coatbridge Sunnyside Station Buildings completed |
|
02/07/1888 |
Chapelhall – Newhouse opened |
|
29/06/1895 |
Original Whifflet (N.B.) Station closed and replaced
by staion further to North. (????) |
|
05/10/1897 |
Airdrie shed expanded. |
|
21/11/1899 |
Airdrie shed burns down |
|
c1900 |
Caledonian Railway rebuild G.G & Coatbridge Station |
|
01/05/1900 |
New Airdrie shed planned |
|
01/11/1900 |
New, larger, 3 road Airdrie shed opened. |
|
20/12/1903 |
Increased capacity between
Coatbridge Central and Gartsherrie - line quadrupled |
|
03/1904 |
Line Doubled between Airdrie and
Bathgate |
|
1919 |
Carrick Buchanan gifted Drumpellier estate to the
town of Coatbridge |
|
1919 |
Langloan Iron Works Closes Down |
|
1921 |
Calder Iron & Steel works close |
|
1921 |
Carnbroe Iron Works Close Down |
|
09/06/1924 |
Rawyards West Junction to Calderbank
Branch Junction Closed. |
|
1925 |
Last 0-4-0 tender engine in Britain, NBR No.1011,
withdrawn from Kipps Shed. |
|
1930 |
Summerlee Ironworks Closes Down |
|
01/05/1930 |
Passenger Service Withdrawn between Manuel Low Level
and Coatbridge (Greenside Junction). Longriggend,
Whiterigg, Rawyards and Commonhead Stations closed. |
|
22/09/1930 |
Forrestfield Station Closed |
|
22/09/1930 |
Whifflet (N.B.) Staion closed |
|
01/12/1930 |
Passenger service withdrawn between Airdrie and
Newhouse |
|
27/12/1935 |
Cairnhill Junction - Gartness Junction closed and
lifted. |
|
1939 |
Freight service withdrawn between Chapelhall and
Calderbank |
|
18/06/1939 |
Line singled between Chapelhall and Calderbank |
|
11/08/1939 |
Calderbank (LNER) Branch closed to
all traffic (Possible Date - this is date of closure
of Calderbank Steelworks Junction which was link
from Caledonian branch) |
|
12/08/1939 |
Line singled between Airdrie and Calderbank |
|
11/09/1939 |
Airdrie shed closed. Part of the coaling stage moved
to Yoker shed. |
|
28/10/1940 |
Gartsherrie (LMS) Passenger Station closed. |
|
31/07/1941 |
Freight service withdrawn between Calderbank and
Airdrie (LMS). Line remained OOU until 1954 |
|
01/08/1942 |
LMS Apply for Abandonment order for the Monkland
Canal |
|
03/05/1943 |
Passenger service Withdrawn between Airdrie and
Whifflet Upper. Airdrie (Cal.) and Calder Stations
Closed |
|
01/02/1944 |
Rosehall No10 Pit, last of the Rosehall Mines closed
down |
|
02/09/1945 |
Line singled between Whifflet and Bothwell.
Signalboxes at Whifflet Central and Carnbroe (NB)
closed |
|
13/06/1948 |
Line singled between Whifflet High Level and Airdrie
(Cal.) |
|
01/09/1949 |
Freight service withdrawn between Slamannan &
Rawyards |
|
18/06/1951 |
Plains Station Closed |
|
10/09/1951 |
Passenger service withdrawn between Blairhill and
Bothwell, Coatbridge Central (N.B.) Station Closed |
|
08/06/1953 |
Coatbridge (Caledonian Station) adopts name
Coatbridge Central |
|
29/12/1954 |
Calderbank to Airdrie (LMS) formally closed. |
|
1955 |
"Glen" mine at Shawhead, (opened in1940) closed down |
|
10/07/1955 |
Freight services withdrawn between Bothwell &
Whifflet East Junction. Branch remained in situ OOU
until 1961 |
|
09/01/1956 |
Passenger service withdrawn between Airdrie and
Bathgate. Clarkston and Caldercruix Stations closed. |
|
01/05/1956 |
Freight service withdrawn between Rawyards and
Commonhead. (Rawyards Signalbox was not formally
closed until 04/08/1958) |
|
18/07/1960 |
Electrification and Re-signalling
work on Airdrie - Glasgow Line. New Signalbox opened
at Airdrie Station (28/02/1960), control area of
Sunnyside Junction expanded to include Greenside
Junction and that Box Abolished. Control Area of
Heatheryknowe box expanded and box at Blairhill
Station Closed |
|
05/11/1960 |
Electric Services Inaugurated over the Glasgow North
route |
|
19/12/1960 |
Electric Services Suspended due to safety fears with
the transformer equipment |
|
1961 |
R.B. Tennants open the Meadow Works |
|
06/06/1961 |
Bothwell to Whifflet East Junction formally closed.
Branch remained in use as far as Rosehall Top
sidings (Carnbroe N.B. Junction) for locomotive
storage until at least 1962 |
|
01/10/1961 |
Electric Services Re-Introduced |
|
05/11/1962 |
Whifflet (Lower) Cal. Station Closed |
|
05/11/1962 |
Passenger Service Withdrawn between Gartcosh
Junction and Gartsherrie South Junction |
|
31/12/1962 |
Kipps Locomotive Shed Closed. Site retained for
locomotive storage. |
|
06/07/1964 |
Freight Services withdrawn between Airdrie and
Imperial Works Siding Headshunt. |
|
06/07/1964 |
Freight service withdrawn between Airdrie North
Goods and Kipps Incline Foot |
|
31/08/1964 |
Gartsherrie North Junction Closed. |
|
05/10/1964 |
Passenger Service Withdrawn between Whifflet Upper
and Langloan West Junction. Whifflet (Upper),
Langloan, Drumpark and Bailieston Stations Closed. |
|
02/04/1966 |
Kirkintilloch Basin to Chryston closed |
|
04/04/1966 |
Freight service withdrawn between Newhouse and
Chapelhall |
|
07/11/1966 |
Passenger Service Withdrawn between Coatbridge
Central and Rutherglen Junction |
|
1967 |
Gartsherrie Iron Works (last in district) closed |
|
03/04/1967 |
Calder Goods Branch Closed |
|
05/11/1967 |
Chryston to Bedley Junction closed
to all traffic. Line to Chryston had been out of use
since 26/02/1967 |
|
05/11/1967 |
Bedlay Junction to Garnqueen South
Junction Reduced to Single Track |
|
07/11/1967 |
Gartsherrie East Junction Closed.
Link to Gunnie Yard from the North severed |
|
17/12/1967 |
Brownieside Junction to Boots
Factory siding closed to all traffic (Speculative
date - this is date Caldercruix Signalbox closed,
which controlled the ground frame at Brownieside
Junction) |
|
1969 |
Freightliner terminal opened at Coatbridge |
|
18/08/1971 |
Freight service withdrawn between Kipps Incline Foot
and Greenside Junction |
|
01/05/1972 |
Temporary Passenger Service Reinstated between
Coatbridge Central and Rutherglen Junction (1 train
each way Glasgow Central - Perth) |
|
09/12/1973 |
Motherwell Power Box commissioned.
Signalboxes at Whifflet North Junction, Coatbridge
Junction, Coatbridge Central Station, Langloan
Junction and Rosehall Junction abolished |
|
04/05/1974 |
Temporary passenger Service Withdrawn between
Coatbridge Central and Rutherglen Junction |
|
07/05/1974 |
"Clansman" Euston - Birmingham - (Coatbridge
Central) -Inverness Passenger Service Commences
Running. |
|
03/05/1976 |
Passenger Service reinstated between Gartcosh
Junction and Gartsherrie South Junction (Through
sleeper services Fort-William to Euston via Glasgow
Central) |
|
1978 |
Freightliner terminal expanded to current status,
access from the South created. |
|
c1979 |
Class 314's appear on services to Airdrie for a
short time. |
|
16/12/1979 |
Airdrie to Bathgate line reduced to Single Track. |
|
1980(?) |
Souterhouse Branch Closed to all traffic (Closure of
British Tube Works, last customer served by the
branch) |
|
04/08/1981 |
Electrification extended from Mossend to Coatbridge
Freightliner Terminal |
|
1981 |
Bedley Colliery, Last in District, Closed |
|
11/12/1981 |
Bedley Colliery to Garnqueen South Junction closed.
(Garnqueen South Junction box was not formally
closed until June 1983) |
|
15/02/1982 |
Clarkston (Inverhouse Distillery branch Junction) to
Bathgate closed to all traffic. |
|
1984(?) |
Sheepford Coal Concentration Depot closed, Sheepford
branch closed to all traffic.
Branch is shown as closed in the 1985 edition of the
Quail Track Diagrams (Scottish Region) |
|
1984 |
Drumpellier
was officially designated as a Country Park. |
|
11/05/1985 |
Last 1S81 2050 Carlisle - Perth ran |
|
01/12/1985 |
Airdrie to Inverhouse Distillery closed to all
traffic |
|
1986 |
BSC Calder Tubeworks Closed |
|
May-87 |
"Clansman" Euston - Birmingham - Inverness Passenger
Service re-routed via Edinburgh. End of direct
daytime Inter-City Services to/from Coatbridge
Central. |
|
Aug-87 |
Airdrie to Hamilton service re-instated |
|
1988 |
Motorail Traffic through Coatbridge Central ends |
|
01/08/1989 |
Imperial works Branch closed to all traffic |
|
14/05/1989 |
Sleeper services through Coatbridge Central
Withdrawn |
|
16/05/1989 |
Airdrie -Drumgelloch re-opened |
|
01/07/1989 |
Yoker Power Signalbox Commissioned.
Airdrie, Sunnyside Junction and Heatheryknowe
Signalboxes abolished. |
|
09 or 10/1989 |
Sunnyside Junction - Whifflet South Junction
Electrified to provide diversionary route for Lanark
services during Newton Engineering Works |
|
1990 |
Class 320 EMU's start passenger services on
Drumgelloch line. |
|
Dec-92 |
Clitheroe-Gunnie Cement traffic Ceased |
|
04/11/1993 |
New Whifflet - Glasgow Service Commences |
|
30/11/1995 |
R.B. Tennant cease production at Whifflet Foundry |
|
26/05/1996 |
Motherwell - Cumbernauld passenger service
Introduced |
|
01/03/1999 |
Cowlairs Signalling Centre commissioned, Gartsherrie
South Junction and Garnqueen North Signalboxes
abolished.
Last Semaphore Signals in the district Removed. |
|
Sep-2001 |
Original R.B. Tennant’s Whifflet Foundry Demolished. |
|
01/10/2002 |
Emergency timetable on Airdrie/Drumgelloch to
Helensburgh/Balloch comes to an end, 15min service
interval restored. |
|
12/10/2002 |
Derailment of the 11:46 Airdrie to Balloch at
Airdrie Station formed by 320307. |
|
01/10/2002 |
Class 318s and 334s begin appearing at Airdrie |
|
27/12/2002 |
303011 works last 303 service from Airdrie Station
(18:58 Drumgelloch to Helensburgh) |
|
06/01/2003 |
Peak hour service restored between Coatbridge
Central and Hamilton Circle |
Monklands
Timeline
