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The first station in Motherwell was opened by the Wishaw and Coltness Railway on 8 May 1843 and was located at Orbiston. [2] As Orbiston station was quite some distance from the rapidly expanding Motherwell town centre, the decision was taken by the Caledonian Railway to build a station at 'Lesmahagow Junction', the point where the Motherwell Deviation branch of the Caledonian Railway Main ...
The Motherwell station was close to the site of the Hamilton line platforms at the present-day Motherwell station. The passenger train service from Ferniegair to wards Motherwell ceased from 2 October 1876. [9] [page needed] A passenger service was introduced on the Coalburn branch from 2 November 1891.
The Caledonian Railway branches in North Lanarkshire built on the Caledonian Railway main line, which opened in 1848. In the following years the considerable increase of iron production and coal extraction in North Lanarkshire led to a progressive expansion of branch lines in the area between the eastern margin of Glasgow and Bellside in the east, and between Coatbridge, Airdrie and Motherwell.
Motherwell (Scots: Mitherwall, Scottish Gaelic: Tobar na Màthar [3]) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. [4] It has a population of around 32,120. [5] [6] [7] Historically in the parish of Dalziel [8] and part of Lanarkshire, Motherwell is the headquarters for North Lanarkshire Council.
The Glasgow bound limited stop services are well used, and normally full on departure from Wishaw. Sunday. 1tph - Lanark to Milngavie, via Bellshill and Glasgow Central; Other services The station has some other sporadic passenger services such as two trains a day to Carstairs and two to North Berwick via Edinburgh Waverley. Since the December ...
The line is now electrified at 25 kV AC overhead throughout - the wires having been extended to Cumbernauld from their former limit at Gartsherrie South Junction (north of Coatbridge Central) in the spring of 2014 as part of the Cumbernauld Line electrification scheme. [1]
Starting from Glasgow Central (High Level), the line follows the main spine of the WCML to Motherwell where it continues to Carstairs. South of the station, the line splits at Carstairs Junction where it joins another branch from the southern section of the WCML through a tight curve with a permanent speed restriction of 20 mph.
Newton railway station is a railway station located between the neighbourhoods of Drumsagard, Halfway, Newton and Westburn in the town of Cambuslang (Greater Glasgow), Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and it lies on the Argyle , Cathcart Circle lines as well as being immediately adjacent to the West Coast Main Line (WCML) although ...