• The Monkland Railways was a railway company formed in 1848 by the merger of three "coal railways" that had been built to serve coal and iron pits around...
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  • The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway was an early mineral railway running from a colliery at Monklands to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch...
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  • Monkland Railways, formed by the merger of the Ballochney Railway, the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and the Slamannan Railway Monklands (disambiguation)...
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  • Kirkintilloch Railway. The station was opened on 10 December 1849 by the Monkland Railways. It was known as Belday in the Glasgow Herald. Services only stopped...
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  • Kilmarnock and Troon Railway of 1812 and the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway of 1826, the first of the "coal railways" of the Monklands area. The Garnkirk...
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  • by the Monkland Railways. It was a short-lived station, only being open for two years, closing on 10 December 1851. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger...
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    Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway. The Monkland Railways had been formed in 1848 by the merging of several of the old "coal railways" operating around Airdrie...
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    Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway was an early railway built primarily to carry coal to Glasgow and other markets from the Monkland coalfields, shortening...
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  • on the Monkland and Kirkintilloch line. It opened in 1828, and in 1848 it amalgamated with two associated railways, forming the Monkland Railways. All of...
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  • The Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway, also known as the "New Monkland Line", was built by Monkland Railways. It opened on 28 July 1863. The line was absorbed...
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  • commercially, and in 1848 it combined with other companies, forming the Monkland Railways. None of the route is still in use, and much of it near Airdrie has...
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    In North Lanarkshire, the North British Railway was a keen competitor, having taken over the Monkland Railways. The area contained the rapidly-growing...
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    The Monkland Canal was a 12+1⁄4-mile-long (19.7 km) canal designed to bring coal from the mining areas of Monklands to Glasgow in Scotland. In the course...
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    was opened by the Monkland Railways. It had a lot of different names; it was known as Blackstone Junction in the Monkland Railways timetable on 1 March...
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  • 1862 by the Monkland Railways. It replaced Arbuckle, which was to the east. The station closed on 1 May 1930. Quick, M E (2002). Railway passenger stations...
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  • The Monkland Railways too wished to reach the area and they extended their line eastward from Blackstone Junction (on the former Slamannan Railway) and...
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  • August 1828 by the Monkland Railways. It was situated on a siding. Garden Square was built in 1830, which was a local village for railway workers. The station...
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  • together formed the Monkland Railways in 1848; that group eventually became part of the rival North British Railway. The Monkland Railways too had converted...
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    was in residence. The railways were absorbed by the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNSR) on 1 August 1875 for the Deeside Railway and 31 January 1876...
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    Line: How Britain's Railways Were Saved. Hersham: Oxford Publishing Co. ISBN 978-0-86093-647-3. Gourvish, T.R. (1986). British Railways 1948-73. Cambridge:...
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    and Coatbridge Railway. The station opened on 11 August 1862 by the Monkland Railways. To the south was the goods yard. The station building was on the...
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  • Bathgate Railway Bathgate Lower railway station on the Bathgate Branch of the Monkland Railways This disambiguation page lists articles about railway and public...
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    three-quarters was over leased or subsidiary railways. Eventual amalgamation with many of these railways had been prompted from the start. The necessary...
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    The Highland Railway (HR) was one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act 1921, operating north of Perth railway station in Scotland and...
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    Selligue History of the oil shale industry Monkland Railways Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway Glasgow Post Office Directory 1811: John Young...
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  • Wemyss Private Railway was a network of lines, sometimes known as the Wemyss Estate Railway. The lines were a group of mineral and other railways in Fife, Scotland...
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  • amalgamated with several other local railways to form the Monkland Railways. The station opened in 1840 when the Slamannan Railway opened and closed to passengers...
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  • Callander railway was absorbed by the Scottish Central Railway on 31 July 1865 by the Scottish Central and Dunblane, Doune and Callander Railways Amalgamation...
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    Railway Monkland Railways, formed in 1848 by the merger of the aforesaid local "coal railways". Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway North British Railway Caledonian...
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  • there. In 1923 the mainline railways of Great Britain were "grouped" under the Railways Act 1921 and the North British Railway was a constituent of the new...
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