adjust the water in the descending caisson (containing water only) for balance. Shortly after the incline was put to work, one of the gear wheels in the mechanism fractured. However, it proved possible to operate one side of the incline, of course without the benefit of the counterbalancing, the steam engines taking the whole of the load of the ascending caisson. This was done for the rest of the autumn; even with this serious temporary limitation, 30 boats a day were taken up, a total of 1124 including a few descending, until the beginning of November when the dry season ended. The total cost of the incline including the land, amounted to £13,500. It was the only canal incline built in Scotland. Banks burst The section west of Coatbank Street had given difficulty in construction due to the unstable ground. In 1791 the canal burst its banks and flooded Coats Pit, drowning six miners. Drumpeller Railway Contemporary legal sources spell the name "Drumpeller", as does the legal scholar James and also contemporary (1858) Ordnance Survey maps; Carter and some other sources spell it "Drumpellar"; Thomson, Hutton and Lindsay spell it "Drumpellier", which is the modern-day spelling of the place name. Reference has already been made to the numerous feeder tramways to bring minerals to and from the canal where pits and ironworks were close but not immediately adjacent, and the willingness of the Canal Company to form trans-shipment wharfs for railway connections. The tramways were generally made by the pit or ironworks owner on his own land and without requiring Parliamentary authority. There was one exception. The Drumpeller Railway Company was incorporated under the Monkland Canal (Drumpeller Railway) Act on 4 July 1843 to construct a railway to connect pits at Bankhead to the canal at Cuilhill Gullet, a distance of just under . The Canal Company had the power to purchase it. It never conveyed passengers: it was "simply a waggonway with such additional status as may be conferred by parliamentary authorisation". Bankhead (or Braehead) location James' quotation of Bankhead as the southern terminus is clear, and it is confirmed by Cobb, who shows "Bankhead Siding" at the point where the southern slip road from the A8 road nowadays joins the A752. Other mapping sources do not show a settlement called at this location. Bankhead farm is about away on the east of the North Calder Water (beyond Waukmill).