Airdrie, Ballochney Incline
Railway (19th Century)-(20th Century)
Site Name Airdrie, Ballochney Incline
Classification Railway (19th Century)-(20th Century)
Canmore ID 128935
Site Number NS76NE 25
NGR NS 7610 6623
NGR Description From NS c. 7589 6617 to NS c.7635 6629
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/128935
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish New Monkland (Monklands)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Monklands
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS76NE 25.01 7610 6623, From NS c. 7589 6617 to NS c.7635 6629
see also: NS76NE 25.01 7591 6617 incline keepers cottage
NS76NE 25 c. 7589 6617 to c. 7635 6629
Ballochney Incline: Site of incline on Ballochney Railway with incline keeper's cottage dated 1828.
Visited and photographed by J R Hume, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 5 July 1966.
Information from NMRS 749/159.
This is named on the first edition 6-inch Ordnance Survey map (Lanarkshire, 1864, sheet 8) as 'Ballochney Incline'. There is no evidence on the map for an engine house or any attendant structures indicative of a rope-worked hauling system.. This incline (which is now disused) originally belonged to the Monkland Railway Company.
Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 16 April 1998.
