The Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway was one of the first railway companies to construct it's own locomotives, and local Engineering companies were not slow to exploit the growing market.  Most locomotives built in the area were small tank engines for private networks, and the following companies are on record as having constructed locomotives

Airdrie Iron Co.  Standard Works, Airdrie
Dick & Stevenson.  Airdrie Engine Works, Airdrie
Gibb & Hogg,  Airdrie
Martyn Bros.  Chapleside Works, Airdrie
Mosside Locomotive Workshops, (Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway), Kipps, Coatbridge.

Little information is known about the locomotives built at these works, as construction ceased relatively early.  However one locomotive built by Gibb & Hogg is preserved at Summerlee Heritage Park

The role of the Monkland Scrapyards in Steam's Armageddon

Just as local engineering companies had been quick to exploit the market for constructing locomotives, so the local scrap merchants were keen to become involved with the wholesale destruction of the British steam locomotive fleet, and when that market dried up in the late 1960s to dismantle more modern forms of traction.  During the 1960's there were five private companies and one railway owned scrap yard disposing of locomotives and rolling stock. These yards are shown on the map below

S1) G.H. Campbell.

This yard was known as "Atlas Works" (an ironic name since the North British Locomotive Company’s works of the same name built so many locomotives). This name was inherited from the original owners, T.G. Finlayson & Co who ran a structural engineering business on this site. It was located on the south side of the Airdrie to Bathgate line very close to where Drumgelloch Station is now built, and accounted for the lions share of steam locomotives cut up in the Monkland District.  It’s tally was reckoned to be around 1000 locomotives including no fewer than thirty three of the British Railways Standard 9F 2-10-0s.  The following list of locomotives was extracted from "Steam for Scrap - The Complete Story" and tend to focus on the "celebrity" victims such as A4 class Pacific 60005 "Sir Charles Newton".
 

Class	No.	Name/Comments	Class	No.	Name/Comments
Fairburn 2-6-4T	42264	Cut up in one day as a trial to see how quickly a loco could be disposed of!	V2	60835	"The Green Howard, Alexandra, Princess of Wales own Regiment" (longest nameplate on a steam loco)
Patriot	45531	"Sir Frederick Harrison"	7P6F "Britannia"	70002	"Geoffrey Chaucer"
	45532	"Illustrious"		70003	"John Bunyan"
Jubilee	45640	"Frobisher"		70005	"John Milton"
	45687	"Neptune"		70008	"Black Prince"
	45692	"Cyclops"		70025	"Western Star"
	45693	"Agamemnon"		70033	"Charles Dickens"
	45707	"Valiant"		70046
	45711	"Courageous"		70047
	45727	"Inflexible"		70050	"Firth of Clyde"
7F 0-8-0	49335			70052	"Firth of Tay"
L&Y 3F	52275		6P5F "Clan"	72007	"Clan Mackintosh"
A4	60005	"Sir Charles Newton"	BR Std 4MT	75009
A2	60529	"Pearl Diver"		75015
	60534	"Irish Elegance"	Austerity	90774
	?????	one other not recorded

Also known to have been scrapped were 20 members of other British Railway Standard Classes and 48 other Locomotives of LMS origin.
The yard is also credited with the disposal of some 38 diesel shunters between 1968 and 1977,  from classes 05, 06 and the NBL hydraulics:- D2410-13,15,17-19,25,28,30,35,38,40,42. D2556,9,74,75,79-83,85,9,90,92,96,97 & 2618.  D2756,8,60,9,70,5, & 9.

After 1977 the railway work dried up and the siding was lifted, however a scrap merchant still trades on this site.

S3) Connell and Co.

This was an extensive yard previously occupied by the Union Tube Works of the Scottish Tube Company, and was accessed from the Calder Goods Branch.  I witnessed the demise of most of the ex L.N.E.R  North Tyneside electric stock in this yard around 1967 or 68.  The yard is also credited with the destruction of Stanier pacific 46200 "The Princess Royal"
Other "victims" were North British 0-4-0 Diesel Hydraulic shunters numbers D2705,23,50,1 & 4.
 

Class	No.	Name/Comments	Class	No.	Name/Comments
2P 4-4-0	40620		McIntosh 2P 0-4-4	55206
	40621	17 of this class were cut up here		55225
Fairburn 2-6-4T	42144			55266
	42268		Pickersgill 3F 0-6-0	57659	(From Carnbroe Dump)
	42275		K2 2-6-0	61758
4F 0-6-0	43884			61770
"Patriot" 4-6-0	45545	"Planet"		61778
"Jubilee" 4-6-0	45571	"South Africa"	D30	62436	"Lord Glenvarloch"
	45696	"Arethusa"	D34 4-4-0	62470	"Glen Roy"
"Royal Scot"4-6-0	46118	"Royal Welch Fusilier"		62472	"Glen Nevis"
	46162	"Queens Westminster Rifleman"		62475	"Glen Beasdale"
"Princess" 4-6-2	46200	"The Princess Royal"		62487	"Glen Arklet"
Pickersgill 3P 4-4-0	54472			62492	"Glen Garvin"
	54473		WD 8F 2-8-0	WD508
				WD511

S2) Henderson & Co.

This yard, which belonged to an old established company, was immediately adjacent to Airdrie South Station (see picture on the Airdrie Page) and is known to have disposed of A3 Pacific 60094 "Colorado" as well as others from the Carnbroe Dump.

S4) Barnes and Bell.

This company’s yard was originally in the vicinity of Gartsherrie Iron Works (Barbell Siding), but would appear to have been relocated to the site of Langloan Iron Works around 1967 when the Gartsherrie site was closed and cleared. The new site was accessed from the Souterhouse branch, and is shown in The Complete B.R. Diesel and Electric Locomotive Directory as disposing of six class 21's, many of which had been stored in Kipps shed for several years following withdrawal. These were D6104,25,7,34,36 & 43.  D2764,73 & 80 were also disposed of here.

S5) P & W McLellan

This yard was on the site of Coatbridge near Langloan Junction, and is featured on the cover of "Lanarkshire's Last days of Steam" by Gordon Stansfield.  No diesels are recorded as having been scrapped here.  The steam locomotives featured in the photograph are BR Std. class 5 No.73053 and LMS Fairburn 2-6-4T No.42197 (the rest cannot be made out).  Other locomotives disposed of were 4P 4-4-0 No.41106, 3F 0-6-0 No.43742 plus an unidintified Gresley A3 pacific

S6) Heatheryknowe

The yard at Heatheryknowe was originally known as the Southend sidings in North British days, having been used by the engineers department for stabling stock. It is on record as being an early site for cutting up locomotives, but by the time the private yards were in full swing, this site had scaled down operations and was disposing of obsolete coaches and wagons.

I would really like to establish as complete a list as possible of all locomotives cut up in these yards, so if anyone has further records I would like to hear from them!

The Locomotive Dumps

With the exception of Connell’s extensive premises, the other yards were relatively small, at the most only two or three sidings. To fully strip a steam locomotive of the more lucrative non-ferrous components and clear the hulk off the siding was reckoned to take about a week and the capacity of the sidings would be no more than about a dozen locomotives. The volume of locomotives at certain times would exceed the cutting capacity of the yards and locomotive dumps were set up around the area. The main dumps around Monklands were as follows.

D1) Carnbroe.

This yard at Carnbroe North Junction on the Glasgow Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway was originally defined by the North British Railway company as the Bothwell sidings and had been used as wagon storage for the Rosehall Colliery. This line had officially closed in 1961 but the heavily overgrown disused track remained and was used to store mainly ex-Caledonian tank locomotives from Motherwell, Hamilton and Polmadie depots made surplus to requirements by the deployment of diesel shunters. Colin Gifford photographed the yard in June 1962 and the photograph is published in his book "… and gone forever".
Locomotives known to have occupied the dump included:
55020, 55065, 55067, 55068, 55201, 56298, 56313, 56356, 57239, 57268, 57271, 57288, 57292, 57303, 57317, 57319, 57321, 57325, 57363, 57367, 57369, 57389, 57417, 57418, 57436, 57461, 57463, 57563, 57564, 57593, 57632, 57659, 57663, 57665, 68717.

D2&D4) Calder Yard & Calder Goods Branch.

Used as overflow from Connell’s yard, especially when the ex L.N.E.R  North Tyneside electric stock was being cut-up. The whole fleet seemed to have been delivered for disposal in one lot, as Calder Yard, the Goods Branch and the scrap yard itself were filled with these unique articulated units at one point. This must have been a headache for BR and the British Steel as Calder yard was still very much in use

D3) Whifflet Yard.

The Centre sidings between the former Caledonian and North British Lines were used as a storage point for Campbells and Barnes & Bell towards the end of 1968.

D5) Kipps Depot

Was an obvious collection point for locomotives in the early 1960’s. Most locomotives from here were cleared to the Bo’ness dump in 1965.