The ruins of the Wilsontown Ironworks are located near the village of Forth in Lanarkshire in Scotland, approximately 23 miles (37 km) to the south east...

further coal deposits and to connect the Wilsontown Ironworks, although it did not actually reach Wilsontown. In common with the other "coal railways"...

connection with Wilsontown but it never reached this destination. Wilsontown was first established as the site of the famous Wilsontown Ironworks however these...

Revolution. Hot blast was patented by James Beaumont Neilson at Wilsontown Ironworks in Scotland in 1828. Within a few years of the introduction, hot...

patented for iron furnaces by James Beaumont Neilson in 1828 at Wilsontown Ironworks[citation needed] in Scotland, but was later applied in other contexts...

The Wilsontown terminus was established as the site of the famous Wilsontown Ironworks however these closed in 1842 and the 1870 the Wilsontown Branch...

was invented and patented by James Beaumont Neilson in 1828 at Wilsontown Ironworks in Scotland. Hot blast was the single most important advance in fuel...

of Drumclog and the Battle of Bothwell Bridge Strathaven Castle Wilsontown Ironworks South Lanarkshire College University of the West of Scotland (formerly...

the West Coast Main Line. It is near Tarbrax and Woolfords. The Wilsontown Ironworks Branch ran from just to the north. There is now no station convenient...

40 years. While trying to solve a problem with a blast furnace at Wilsontown Ironworks, Neilson realized that the fuel efficiency of the furnace could be...

waggonway by 1795 Wemyss Coalpits to Methil Harbour   Wilsontown c.1805 Climpy colliery to Wilsontown Ironworks, South Lanarkshire   Wishaw and Coltness Railway...

Accordingly, the board proposed an amalgamation with the Monkland Railways, the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway and the Scottish Central Railway, and...

cast. Omoa claimed to be the second oldest iron works in Scotland (after Wilsontown). The Omoa Waggonway was opened in 1813 from Newarthill collieries to...

Railway was a railway company in Scotland, which connected the growing ironworks community around Dalmellington with Ayr, in Ayrshire, Scotland. Its route...

connections were made to collieries, iron workings and shale oil plants. The Wilsontown branch from Auchengray, opened in 1860 was the most significant, and carried...

terminus station continued to be used by some trains. There were important ironworks owned by the Houldsworth family, and ironstone and coal deposits, in the...

Scotland for coal railways. It had several branches serving pits and ironworks. In 1849 it became part of the Caledonian Railway and sections of the...

Hamilton and Bothwell areas, and convey the mineral to Glasgow and to ironworks in the Coatbridge area. It was allied to the North British Railway, and...

railway company to shorten the route from ironstone mines in Cumberland to ironworks in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire. It opened in 1869, and it involved a viaduct...

for minerals from the Slamannan area and the Monkland coalfields and ironworks; the Bo'ness Harbour connection was to give export and import potential...

Kilsyth; the dominant traffic was iron ore and smelted iron from the ironworks at Kilsyth. North of the Campsie Fells the independent Forth and Clyde...

there were a great number of pits and ironworks in the general area there; Dundyvan, Langloan and Summerlee ironworks were directly served. In addition several...

built a considerable network of mineral tramways serving their pits and ironworks. Although the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway had opened in 1842, its route...

Auchengray; opened 15 February 1848; closed 18 April 1966; Wilsontown Junctions; for Wilsontown branch; Cobbinshaw; opened October 1874; relocated 4 October...

with a population of 3,405, the dominant feature of the branch was the ironworks at Glengarnock (and also a chemical works there), situated on the west...

passing train. 1901: A steam engine stopped shunting at the Parkhead Ironworks to refill with water at London Road. On returning at high speed, it crashed...

Railway in 1865. Much of the network was dependent on proximity to pits and ironworks and as those became worked out or declined, the traffic on the network...

connected at first to all the local sources of coal and iron, and to the ironworks. Coal was already extracted on a small scale in New Monkland, north and...

Newton Abbot, 1984, ISBN 0 946537 12 7 Captain J Coddington, Report on the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway, dated 11 June 1845 in Parliamentary...

constructed to bring coal and iron from William Dixon's collieries and ironworks to the River Clyde for onward transportation. When the Clydesdale Junction...