Present Day
The M&KR network, relying as it did on coal and ironstone pits, and ironworks, declined as those minerals and industries were worked out, and most of the network has closed. Two very short sections remain, however: the north-south line from Sunnyside Junction towards Main Street, Coatbridge (although the bridge over Bank Street carries a diverted route built after the M&KR ceased to exist) and the eastward section from Sunnyside Junction to Greenside Junction, now part of the Glasgow - Airdrie line.
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