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Motherwell looking from the south, with stabling sidings in the foreground. Platform 4 is closest to the camera. The bridge in the foreground has recently been replaced with a DDA compliant one. View northward towards Glasgow Central in 1966. Motherwell railway station is a railway station serves the town of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Ferniegair station was relocated south of the new junction; the old station had had a passenger service to Motherwell since 1868. It now also had trains to South Side station in Glasgow via Hamilton. The mineral activity grew considerably and numerous pits were operating close to the Caledonian routes.
Beyond the station, the route joins the line south from Whifflet, returning to the WCML at Motherwell. Southeast 13.3 miles (21.4 km) at Lanark Junction, [35] [36] the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) [37] single-track branch serves Lanark, the southeastern extremity. Class 318s are a common sight on the Argyle Line. 318257 is pictured at 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 station was opened on 4 February 1871 by the Caledonian Railway. It was situated to the south of the current Motherwell station. The station closed on 1 August 1885 and was replaced by Motherwell to the north. [1] >
There were considerable mineral resources in South Lanarkshire, and when the Caledonian Railway was unable to fund the building of a railway to serve the collieries, an independent line, the Lesmahagow Railway, was built. It ran south from Motherwell: the present-day junction at Motherwell station is named Lesmahagow Junction.
1 December 1866, Motherwell, Ferniegair (Chatelherault), Larkhall (Larkhall East), Ayr Road (Dalserf), Stonehouse, Cots Castle, Bents (Netherburn), Blackwood, Auchenheath and Brocketsbrae railway stations open. 1 May 1868, Bents is renamed to Netherburn. 1 June 1869, Brocketsbrae is renamed to Lesmahagow. 1 October 1876, Tillietudlem opens.
Beattock station had closed by this time so that only Lockerbie, Carstairs and Motherwell were served by main line trains to Glasgow, and only Haymarket by Edinburgh trains. Avanti West Coast is the main operator on the London and Birmingham to Glasgow route.