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- Monkland_Railways abstract "This article describes the Monkland Railways Company and the later neighbouring mineral line, the North Monkland Railway.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 Airdrie in Central Scotland, and connect them to canals for onward transport of the minerals. The newly formed company had a network stretching from Kirkintilloch to Causewayend, near Linlithgow. These coal railways had had mixed fortunes; the discovery of blackband ironstone and the development of the iron smelting industry around Coatbridge had led to phenomenal success, but hoped-for mineral discoveries in the moorland around Slamannan had been disappointing. The pioneering nature of the railways left them with a legacy of obsolete track and locomotives, and new, more modern, railways were being built around them.The new company responded with connections to other lines, and to Bo'ness Harbour, and built new lines to Bathgate, but it was taken over by the Edinburgh and Glasgow 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 declined too, but the Coatbridge - Airdrie - Bathgate line remained open for passengers until 1956. The section east of Airdrie then closed, except for minor freight movements, but it was reopened in 2010, forming a through passenger route between Glasgow and Edinburgh via Airdrie and Bathgate. Part of the Bo'ness extension line was re-opened as the Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway, a heritage line. The remainder of the system has closed.The North Monkland Railway was an independent line built to serve pits and quarries to the north of Airdrie beyond the reach of the Monkland Railways system. It opened in 1878 and was taken over in 1888, but it closed in the 1960s.".
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- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Airdrie,_North_Lanarkshire.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Bathgate.
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- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Caledonian_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Category:Beeching_closures_in_Scotland.
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- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Category:Standard_gauge_railways_in_Scotland.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Coatbridge.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Coatbridge_Branch_(NBR).
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Edinburgh_and_Glasgow_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Forth_and_Clyde_Canal.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Garnkirk_and_Glasgow_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink James_Young_(chemist).
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Kirkintilloch.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Linlithgow.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink London_and_North_Eastern_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Monkland_and_Kirkintilloch_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink North_British_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Slamannan.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Slamannan_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Slamannan_and_Borrowstounness_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Smelting.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Torbanite.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Union_Canal_(Scotland).
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Wilsontown,_Morningside_and_Coltness_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink Wishaw_and_Coltness_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink World_War_I.
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
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- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLinkText "Monkland Railways".
- Monkland_Railways wikiPageWikiLinkText "North Monkland Railway".
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- Monkland_Railways subject Category:Beeching_closures_in_Scotland.
- Monkland_Railways subject Category:Closed_railway_lines_in_Scotland.
- Monkland_Railways subject Category:Early_Scottish_railway_companies.
- Monkland_Railways subject Category:North_British_Railway.
- Monkland_Railways subject Category:Pre-grouping_British_railway_companies.
- Monkland_Railways subject Category:Railway_companies_disestablished_in_1865.
- Monkland_Railways subject Category:Railway_companies_established_in_1848.
- Monkland_Railways subject Category:Standard_gauge_railways_in_Scotland.
- Monkland_Railways hypernym Company.
- Monkland_Railways type Company.
- Monkland_Railways type Station.
- Monkland_Railways type Company.
- Monkland_Railways type Disestablishment.
- Monkland_Railways type Line.
- Monkland_Railways type Station.
- Monkland_Railways comment "This article describes the Monkland Railways Company and the later neighbouring mineral line, the North Monkland Railway.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 Airdrie in Central Scotland, and connect them to canals for onward transport of the minerals. The newly formed company had a network stretching from Kirkintilloch to Causewayend, near Linlithgow.".
- Monkland_Railways label "Monkland Railways".
- Monkland_Railways sameAs Q6900906.
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- Monkland_Railways sameAs Q6900906.
- Monkland_Railways wasDerivedFrom Monkland_Railways?oldid=678164282.
- Monkland_Railways depiction Monkland_Rlies_1848.gif.
- Monkland_Railways isPrimaryTopicOf Monkland_Railways.