It is the closest railway station to Coatbridge College and Monklands Hospital.

The station was opened as part of the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway on 1 February 1871.

The ticket hall that was built when the Airdrie-Helensburgh line was electrified in 1960 was demolished in the early 1990s.

Similar structures, built in the same style, still survive at Easterhouse and Airdrie stations.

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