This line is open. The line extended the Polloc and Govan Railway from Rutherglen to Motherwell and took over the older line. A branch was laid to a new terminus at South Side in Glasgow.
/ /1841 | Glasgow Central Station Bridge Street station (a terminus with a large glass roof on the south side of the Clyde) opened. It served the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway and later the Glasgow Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway and the Clydesdale Junction Railway. |
/ /1845 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Act receives Royal assent |
/ /1846 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] [Caledonian Railway] Clydesdale Junction Railway absorbed by Caledonian Railway |
/ /1848 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Locomotive shed opened at South Side. |
01/06/1849 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Line opened between Motherwell and Rutherglen. The [Caledonian Railway] begins running trains to South Side station, Glasgow. |
01/06/1849 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Glasgow terminus, South Side opened on a short branch from the former Polloc and Govan Railway at Gushetfaulds. The terminus was immediately beside the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway terminus. |
/ /1857 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] New locomotive shed opened in Govan Colliery. Called South Side. |
08/10/1857 | [Motherwell Deviation Line] ([Caledonian Railway]) Line opened from Jerviston Junction ([Wishaw and Coltness Railway]) to Lesmahagow Junction ([Clydesdale Junction Railway]). The line allowed Motherwell station to be moved further west from Flemington to Lesmahagow Junction. Motherwell (Old) became Flemington and Motherwell (New) was opened in the V of the junction at Lesmahagow Junction. A large viaduct was required by Braidhurst. |
/ /1872 | William Dixon and Co [Clydesdale Junction Railway] William Dixon and Co give the railway permission to build a new locomotive shed, so long as it did not disturb Dixons own railway which ran through an old quarry and was used for dumping slag and a level crossing over Polmadie Road. |
25/09/1873 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Decide to build new shed discussed with William Dixon and Co. |
30/12/1873 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Railway buys land for a new shed, Rutherglen, from William Dixon for £12,750. |
29/12/1874 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Signalbox at the new Rutherglen shed under construction called Polmadie. |
/07/1875 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Rutherglen shed, built in timber, renamed Polmadie, partly brought into use. |
16/09/1875 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie shed fully open. |
01/07/1879 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] South Side closed |
/ /1923 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie shed starts to be re-built in brick. |
/ /1924 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie shed re-building in brick complete. |
/ /1934 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie turntable replaced with 70ft. |
/ /1935 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie shed coded 27A. |
/ /1940 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Second 70ft turntable installed at Polmadie. |
/ /1940 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Shawfield yard traffic sidings incorporated into Polmadie shed during re-construction of the shed. A new coaling plant was erected. |
/ /1949 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie shed coded 66A. |
28/05/1967 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie shed closed to steam. |
/04/1970 | [Caledonian Railway] [Wishaw and Coltness Railway] [Clydesdale Junction Railway] [Polloc and Govan Railway] [Glasgow Central Station] West Coast Main line electrification authorised. |
/ /1974 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] Polmadie shed closed when West Coast Main Line electrification reaches Glasgow. The site was re-developed as a carriage depot. |
06/05/1974 | [Caledonian Railway] [Wishaw and Coltness Railway] [Clydesdale Junction Railway] [Polloc and Govan Railway] [Glasgow Central Station] Glasgow Central to Carlisle electrification complete. |
21/07/1991 | [Clydesdale Junction Railway] 4 people killed and 22 injured in a head on crash at Newton station probably due to a signal passed at danger (SPAD). |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Motherwell Junction station to Rutherglen.
This station was located on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway where it was met by the Clydesdale Junction Railway. The station was just east of the junction.
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This is a four platform station. The station is at the junction of the Glasgow Central to London Euston main line and the Hamilton Circle line to Hamilton Central. There are carriage sidings on the west side of the station, next to the northbound platform of the Hamilton Circle lines.
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This is a junction just north of Motherwell station.
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Formed in 1898 this company built bridges for sites worldwide. The business, after a number of changes of ownerships, still exists today with a changed focus to storage tanks, gasholders and their maintenance. ...
More detailsThis level crossing is north of Motherwell on the direct line to Glasgow.
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This is a six arch double track viaduct over the South Calder Water. The viaduct is between Uddingston and Motherwell.
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This signal box was north west of Motherwell on the direct line to Newton. It was a little to the west of the viaduct over the South Calder Water, Orbiston Viaduct.
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This signal box was located between Uddingston Junction and Motherwell. The box, opened 1877, was on the north side of the line. The Douglas Park Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 were on the south side of the line served by a siding from the west, starting a little way west from the box. On the north side was a branch which ran north to East Parkhead Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 (also served ...
More detailsThis was the junction for the Hamilton Palace Colliery. There was a single track trailing connection running a short distance south east (parallel to the main line) to meet the a connection from the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway. Close to the junction was a short loop on the Caledonian's approach. The line continuing south to the colliery was a joint [[Caledonian ...
More detailsThe Bothwell [CR] branch started from this junction, immediately east of Fallside station. The signal box here was 'Bothwell Junction'. The first version of this was on the north side of junction. It was replaced in 1897 with a second box on the south side of the junction. This was when the Bothwell Park Brick Works opened. This was served by sidings on the north side of the main ...
More detailsThis station opened in 1873 at what became the junction of the short branch to Bothwell [CR] in 1877. Fallside House was to the north of the railway. There was no goods yard.
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This junction is east of Uddingston station. It is the junction between the Glasgow to Motherwell direct line (the 1849 Clydesdale Junction Railway) and line to Bellshill (1878 Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)).
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The first Uddingston station was on the east side of the Glasgow Road bridge, replaced by the current Uddingston station on the west side. The permanent station building, on the westbound platform, was built in 1853.
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This is a two platform station. The red sandstone station building on the Glasgow bound platform remains standing. The goods yard was on the other side of Glasgow Road, north of the line and approached from the east. The original station, Uddingston [1st], was on this side of the road. Just to the east is Uddingston Junction.
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This pair of double track viaducts is west of Uddingston station and crosses the River Clyde.
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This signal box was east of the site of the original Newton [1st] station. It was located on the south side of the line.
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This junction is immediately east of Newton station. Here the Hamilton Branch (Caledonian Railway) separates from the Clydesdale Junction Railway and heads south east to Hamilton. Both lines opened in 1849.
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This is a two platform station. The location was formerly a four platform station, the two northern tracks no longer have platforms and allow non-stop trains to bypass the station.
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This was the junction between the former Clydesdale Junction Railway and the Glasgow Central Railway to the immediate west of Newton station. To the immediate west of the junction the former Clydesdale Junction Railway and Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway part and run a short distance west before diverging. ...
More detailsNewton West Junction is to the west of Newton station. It is where lines divide into the bypass lines, to the north, and platform lines, to the south. The platform lines are joined by the line from Kirkhill, to the south west, as they approach the station. This location is called Newton Kirkhill Junction although it used to come under Newton West Junction.
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A short line ran from Gushetfaulds Junction to South Side [CR] station terminus.
This junction was formed in 1849 when a short detached portion of the Clydesdale Junction Railway was opened from the former Polloc and Govan Railway (which the Clydesdale had purchased and upgraded) to a new terminus at South Side [CR]. This was an important new terminus in the south side of Glasgow, from 1849 the terminus for trains from England via the Caledonian Railway. ...
More detailsThis considerable Caledonian Railway carriage shed (around 17 lines) was located between South Side [CR] (to the east) and the Gordon Street lines approaching Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) (with Gushetfaulds station to the south) and City of Glasgow Union Railway to the west. Approach was from Central Station Junction / [Gushetfaulds Junction]] to the east.
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This was the main Freightliner terminal in Glasgow. The site began as the goods and minerals portion main terminus on the south side of Glasgow, he passenger station actually called South Side [CR].
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This terminus was located between the junction of Pollokshaws Road and Cathcart Street. The west portion was the terminus of the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston direct Railway and the east portion opened with the Clydesdale Junction Railway.
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