 Dixon's ironworks and coalpits, with an eastward extension to a station at Rutherglen in 1842.The Caledonian Railway (CR) opened its main line from Glasgow in 1849; the route was from Townhead over the Glasgow, Garnkirk and Coatbridge Railway (GG&CR), an extended successor to the earlier Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, which had been built as a coal line.The GG&CR had been upgraded but the route was roundabout.