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Clydesdale Junction Railway
All photographs of this railway in date order.
![Looking east at Uddingston Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //]](/images/0/167.jpg "Uddingston Junction")
![303 056 on a Dalmuir service at Cambuslang in the 1980s.<br><br>[David Panton //]](/images/17000/17049.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Double headed Class 20s, with 20123 leading, passing Uddingston Junction in the 1970s with iron ore empties from Ravenscraig Steel Works heading for General Terminus Quay via Strathbungo Junction. One or two further Class 20s would join the train at Strathbungo for the final part of the journey to the quay. [Ref query 10 January 2017] <br><br>[Ian Millar //]](/images/62000/62454.jpg "Uddingston Junction")
![Glasgow - Coalburn train stopping at Newton. 2.6.4T 42164.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 11/06/1953]](/images/9000/9158.jpg "Newton")
![Up <i>Mid-Day Scot</i> passing through Cambuslang in the summer of 1953. The locomotive is Stanier Pacific 46210 <i>Lady Patricia</i>.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 15/06/1953]](/images/9000/9174.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Terminal part of former South Side station. [Railscot note: Barrhead line terminus was to left (buried under embankment of CGU line to St Enoch) and Motherwell line terminus and Gushetfaulds coal depot to right.]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/06/1962]](/images/9000/9801.jpg "South Side")
![Carriage sidings at Larkfield Junction in the summer of 1962. Later the site of the now closed Gushetfaulds Freightliner depot.<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 06/06/1962]](/images/9000/9802.jpg "South Side")
![Site of former Caledonian South Side station looking south east. [Railscot note: both South Side stations were CR but the Barrhead one was obliterated by the CGU.]<br><br>[G H Robin collection by courtesy of the Mitchell Library, Glasgow 20/06/1962]](/images/9000/9804.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![Stanier Pacific 46257 <I>City of Salford</I> restarts a Carlisle - Glasgow train from Motherwell in May 1963.<br><br>[Colin Miller /05/1963]](/images/19000/19858.jpg "Motherwell")
![Caley 3F no 57689 drifts south through Motherwell with a brake van in May 1963. <br><br>[Colin Miller /05/1963]](/images/26000/26252.jpg "Motherwell")
![Ex-Caledonian 3F 0-6-0 no 57689 southbound on the main line through Motherwell in May 1963 with a brake van.<br><br>[Colin Miller /05/1963]](/images/36000/36012.jpg "Motherwell")
![46238 <I>City of Carlisle</I> heads north through Cambuslang with a train for Glasgow Central in June 1963.<br><br>[John Robin 01/06/1963]](/images/6000/6693.jpg "Cambuslang")
![A Black 5 leaves Motherwell on 5 July 1964 with a stopping train for Glasgow Central. <br><br>[John Robin 05/07/1964]](/images/46000/46132.jpg "Lesmahagow Junction")
![70003 hurries through Uddingston Station bound for Glasgow.<br><br>[John Robin 19/07/1964]](/images/6000/6779.jpg "Uddingston")
![Britannia Pacific 70007 <I>Coeur-de-Lion</I> passes Newton Box in 1964 with a down express.<br><br>[John Robin 26/07/1964]](/images/6000/6782.jpg "Newton")
![Royal Scot 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> at Motherwell station on 29 October 1964 with the 9.25am Crewe - Perth.<br><br>[K A Gray 29/10/1964]](/images/36000/36195.jpg "Motherwell")
![Wreckage of a derailed cement train at Uddingston Junction in July 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 17/07/1965]](/images/46000/46266.jpg "Uddingston Junction")
![Black 5 no 44899 is about to run through the station at Newton, Lanarkshire, with a down cement train on 16 October 1965.<br><br>[John Robin 16/10/1965]](/images/46000/46029.jpg "Newton")
![GNSR no 49 Gordon Highlander arrives at Newton on 16 October 1965 with the Branch Line Society railtour from Glasgow Central. The tour visited various locations across central Scotland. [See image 25530] <br><br>[John Robin 16/10/1965]](/images/46000/46176.jpg "Newton")
![GNSR 49 <I>Gordon Highlander</I> climbing from Carmyle to Newton on 16 October 1965 with a Branch Line Society railtour from Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Robin 16/10/1965]](/images/48000/48937.jpg "Newton")
![44889 with down cement train at Newton.<br><br>[John Robin 16/19/1965]](/images/6000/6783.jpg "Newton")
![A Clayton takes a freight north through Motherwell on the WCML in October 1970. The train has just passed through the station and is about to pass the Motherwell Bridge works. <br><br>[John Furnevel 30/10/1970]](/images/4000/4466.jpg "Lesmahagow Junction")
![Shunting sidings alongside Motherwell Bridge and the WCML in October 1970. The Motherwell Bridge sidings were beyond the fence. [See image 56105]<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/10/1970]](/images/4000/4468.jpg "Motherwell")
![Logans Road Signalbox, Motherwell, photographed in February 1974 from a passing train.<br><br>[Bill Roberton /02/1974]](/images/52000/52047.jpg "Logans Road Level Crossing")
![Class 87023, and an unidentified classmate, waiting in the wings at Motherwell in May 1974.<br><br>[Ian Millar /05/1974]](/images/61000/61557.jpg "Motherwell")
![On Saturday 4th of May 1974, the last day of Class 50 hauled services to London Euston from Glasgow before the electric hauled Class 87s, 50045 is seen at Motherwell. A Central SMT Lodekka bus is on the overbridge ... and no, I didn't get the driver to adjust tops to suit me (IM)!<br><br>[Ian Millar 04/05/1974]](/images/61000/61512.jpg "Motherwell")
![314210 seen at Rutherglen on the occasion of the re-opening of the Glasgow Central Low Level line on 1st November 1979. The Queen is the <I>Second Man</I> in the driving cab. This unit is still in Scotrail service over 37 years later [See image 59498].<br><br>[Ian Millar 01/11/1979]](/images/59000/59492.jpg "Rutherglen Central Junction")
![Motherwell mainline platforms. Hamilton Circle platforms and sidings to left. There was a bay platform in the V of the junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7795.jpg "Motherwell")
![Eastbound at Cambuslang.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7796.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Cambuslang station looking east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7797.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Seen from Rutherglen station is a 37 on a freight heading east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/7000/7798.jpg "Rutherglen")
![The fine station building at Uddingston. Looking west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8285.jpg "Uddingston")
![Uddingston looking east towards the junction. Express trains do not stop here, thus the yellow lines to stand behind as they pass through.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8286.jpg "Uddingston")
![The small building on the eastbound platform at Uddingston.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8287.jpg "Uddingston")
![Looking west over Uddingston Junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1987]](/images/8000/8290.jpg "Uddingston Junction")
![303 004 standing at Newton in August 1987 with a train for Dalmuir.<br><br>[David Panton /08/1987]](/images/18000/18891.jpg "Newton")
![37 051 takes a lightweight freight south through Motherwell in October 1987.<br><br>[David Panton /10/1987]](/images/18000/18732.jpg "Motherwell")
![Three trains at Motherwell. Local (left probably for Lanark), long distance (centre) and local (right probably for Hamilton).<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8413.jpg "Motherwell")
![Glasgow-bound train leaves Motherwell.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8414.jpg "Motherwell")
![Just east of Rutherglen Central Junction is the Rutherglen Permanent Way Depot. This view looks east.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8541.jpg "Rutherglen Permanent Way Depot")
![Just east of Rutherglen Central Junction is the Rutherglen Permanent Way Depot. This view looks east in 1988.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8542.jpg "Rutherglen Permanent Way Depot")
![Just east of Rutherglen Central Junction is the Rutherglen Permanent Way Depot. This 1988 view looks west.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8543.jpg "Rutherglen Permanent Way Depot")
![Looking east at Rutherglen East Junction. From left to right; line to Clydebridge Steelworks, line to Coatbridge and Whifflet, line to Edinburgh and Motherwell.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/8000/8544.jpg "Rutherglen East Junction")
![Aerial view of Uddingston looking east showing the viaduct (and former viaduct), station and junction.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1988]](/images/12000/12146.jpg "Uddingston")
![Exchange stop south of Glagow. The building behind the train was a signal cabin.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /05/1989]](/images/12000/12248.jpg "Newton")
![303 055, still with sliding windows, stands at Motherwell's 'via Blantyre' circle platform 3 on 1 June 1997. This has to be a Sunday (and it was: I've checked) because the train is for Balloch, on other days a destination for North Clyde trains only<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/1997]](/images/28000/28246.jpg "Motherwell")
![303 012 on a Carstairs service stands at Motherwell in July 1997.<br><br>[David Panton /07/1997]](/images/18000/18818.jpg "Motherwell")
![Freshly re-liveried 303 019 with a Lanark to Dalmuir service stands alongside the Down Mainline platform at Motherwell on 2 July 1997<br><br>[David Panton 02/07/1997]](/images/28000/28803.jpg "Motherwell")
![Electro-mechanical repeater M R399 at Motherwell in August 1997, subsequently replaced by modern LED equipment. <br><br>[David Panton /08/1997]](/images/18000/18775.jpg "Motherwell")
![Motherwell platform 3 in August 1997, with 101 689 forming the next shuttle to Cumbernauld.<br><br>[David Panton /08/1997]](/images/28000/28015.jpg "Motherwell")
![Strathclyde Red liveried 314208 pulls into Newton station in September 1997 with a Dalmuir service.<br><br>[David Panton /09/1997]](/images/51000/51766.jpg "Newton")
![A 6-car 303 with a service to Dalmuir stands at Motherwell platform 4 in September 1997. <br><br>[David Panton 04/09/1997]](/images/18000/18756.jpg "Motherwell")
![The former Gushetfaulds Freightliner Terminal looking west in 1998. Now part of the M74 extension.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //1998]](/images/52000/52038.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![314 213 calls at Uddingston with a Dalmuir service in March 1998.<br><br>[David Panton 19/03/1998]](/images/20000/20470.jpg "Uddingston")
![303 032 at Newton in July 1998, having reversed in readiness for the return to Glasgow Central via Maxwell Park. <br><br>[David Panton /07/1998]](/images/18000/18915.jpg "Newton")
![Hamilton Palace Colliery (Douglas Park) was served by both the Caledonian and the North British via a joint line. This photograph looks south under the former Clydesdale Junction Railway of the Caledonian close to the point where the North British's Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway line from Bothwell to Coatbridge passed overhead. The distant disused bridge took a spur from the GBH&C line to the joint line. Today only the Caledonian's Uddingston to Motherwell line remains open.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford //2000]](/images/58000/58746.jpg "Hamilton Palace Junction")
![Motherwell Platform 2, a Lanark - Dalmuir service stops to pick up a large number of passengers.<br><br>[Brian Forbes /03/2002]](/images/10000/10696.jpg "Motherwell")
![Aerial view of Motherwell. Top left is Haughhead Junction, bottom left is Dalzell and right is Lesmahagow/Motherwell Junction. The original route of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway is mostly built over now with little trace on the ground.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 01/07/2004]](/images/7000/7263.jpg "Motherwell")
![Departure from Newton on 5 January signalled for Newton West Junction and the Rutherglen line.<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2006]](/images/13000/13059.jpg "Newton")
![A class 66 heading north 'light engine' on the WCML through the dark cavern of Motherwell station in February 2006.<br><br>[John Furnevel 25/02/2006]](/images/4000/4781.jpg "Motherwell")
![Looking to Gushetfaulds and Larkfield Junction from the site of the former South Side station.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9739.jpg "South Side")
![One of the disused loading bays in the closed Gushetfaulds Freightliner depot. CGU line for St Enoch was to the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9740.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![Gushetfaulds Freightliner depot, now closed. Formerly a coal depot and formerly Glasgow South Side.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/9000/9792.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![Looking to the mainline at Gushetfaulds, the lifted container depot. This short spur was originally to South Side station built when the Clydesdale Junction Railway opened.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 20/06/2006]](/images/18000/18183.jpg "Gushetfaulds")
![A Glasgow bound train pulls into Uddingston station on a sunny morning in August 2006. A striking station building which even boasts a coffee shop! <br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2006]](/images/10000/10304.jpg "Uddingston")
![The impressive station building at Uddingston, looking north west in August 2006. The 'station buffet' was a pleasant (and welcome) surprise. <br><br>[John Furnevel 11/08/2006]](/images/10000/10870.jpg "Uddingston")
![Shortly after a stop at Rutherglen station in August 2006 a Dalmuir - Lanark train heads towards Rutherglen Central Junction, passing the tail end of a train of westbound coal empties bound for Hunterston.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/2006]](/images/10000/10315.jpg "Rutherglen")
![Longannet empties heading back to Hunterston in August 2006 behind EWS 66145 passing Rutherglen Central Junction. The train is about to run under the pedestrian walkway linking Rutherglen station with Victoria Street.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/08/2006]](/images/51000/51678.jpg "Rutherglen")
![<I>Take this to your leader!</I> Milngavie - Lanark service pulls into Newton station where an urgent message awaits, Jan 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel /01/2007]](/images/13000/13352.jpg "Newton")
![The passenger exit from the island platform at Newton on 5 January 2007, with the abandoned signal box standing beyond.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/01/2007]](/images/12000/12974.jpg "Newton")
![Looking across the running lines at Newton station to the redundant Newton signal box. View west on 5 January 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/01/2007]](/images/12000/12988.jpg "Newton")
![View east from the platform at Newton station on 5 January 2007. On the left is the WCML. In the centre a terminated service waits in the reversing siding at Newton East Junction pending its return to Glasgow. On the right a Milngavie train is approaching the station from Lanark. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/01/2007]](/images/13000/13001.jpg "Newton")
![A terminating service from Glasgow Central arrives at Newton on 5 January 2007. <br><br>[John Furnevel 05/01/2007]](/images/13000/13017.jpg "Newton")
![A GNER Glasgow Central - Kings Cross train bypassing Newton station on the WCML heading for Motherwell on 5 January 2007. The EMU in the background is a Newton terminating service laying over in the refuge siding pending its scheduled return to Glasgow. On the far right is the line to Hamilton and Larkhall.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/01/2007]](/images/13000/13074.jpg "Newton")
![A service for Glasgow Central, having run back from the reversing siding, crosses over at Newton to start its return journey in January 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 05/01/2007]](/images/13000/13179.jpg "Newton")
![The south entrance to Cambuslang station on 15 April 2007, with the rear of the station building on the far side of the footbridge spanning the line. <br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14611.jpg "Cambuslang")
![<I>'Well, well, would you look at that... Cambuslang station to be featured on Railscot website...' </I> Relaxing with the Sunday papers outside Cambuslang station in April 2007.<br><br>[John Furnevel 15/04/2007]](/images/14000/14612.jpg "Cambuslang")
![334 038 arrives at Uddingston on 7 June 2007 with a service to Dalmuir.<br><br>[David Panton 07/06/2007]](/images/21000/21850.jpg "Uddingston")
![Eastbound service pauses at Cambuslang on 17 July.<br><br>[David Panton 17/07/2007]](/images/15000/15868.jpg "Cambuslang")
![318257 passes the former sb at Newton with a Motherwell - Milngavie train on 8 September 2007. <br><br>[David Panton 8/9/2007]](/images/16000/16544.jpg "Newton")
![318259 leaves Motherwell with a Lanark - Dalmuir service on 2 January 2008 while a First TransPennine Express 185 waits to head south for Manchester from platform 1. <br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/17000/17627.jpg "Motherwell")
![A Voyager from Birmingham New Street completes its journey at Motherwell on 2 January 2008.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/17000/17628.jpg "Motherwell")
![A Pendolino service from Birmingham terminates at Motherwell on 2 January 2008.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/17000/17633.jpg "Motherwell")
![The 1351 Motherwell - Manchester FTPE service waits to depart from platform 1 at Motherwell on 2 January 2008.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/17000/17636.jpg "Motherwell")
![156435 departs from platform 3 at Motherwell on a chilly 2 January 2008 with a late afternoon service to Cumbernauld.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/26000/26265.jpg "Motherwell")
![334012 waits in platform 2 at Motherwell on 2 January 2008 with a Glasgow- bound service.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/34000/34955.jpg "Motherwell")
![Scene at Motherwell station on 2 January 2008. Unit 334006 waits at platform 4, having recently arrived from the Hamilton side of the circle.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/34000/34968.jpg "Motherwell")
![334006 departs from platform 4 at Motherwell on 2 January 2008 with a service to Dalmuir.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/42000/42733.jpg "Motherwell")
![318261 calls at platform 1 at Motherwell with a Lanark service on 2 January 2008.<br><br>[John McIntyre 02/01/2008]](/images/42000/42742.jpg "Motherwell")
![An afternoon service stands at Motherwell on 18 August 2008 about to depart for Lanark.<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 18/08/2008]](/images/26000/26085.jpg "Motherwell")
![A Class 334 on an afternoon service about to depart from Motherwell for Glasgow, Monday 18 August 2008<br><br>[Andrew Wilson 18/08/2008]](/images/26000/26117.jpg "Motherwell")
![322 484 arriving at Motherwell on 15 September with the 1538 to North Berwick.<br><br>[David Panton 15/09/2008]](/images/21000/21612.jpg "Motherwell")
![156 478 on a Glasgow Central - Edinburgh Waverley service calls at Cambuslang on 17 September 2008.<br><br>[David Panton 17/09/2008]](/images/20000/20787.jpg "Cambuslang")
![314209, in the Newton reversing spur, waits for 334027 to leave Newton station for Dalmuir before drawing forward to form a Glasgow Central (via Kings Park/Outer Circle) service. The electrfication masts to the left of the reversing siding show the course of the West Coast Main Line towards Motherwell. <br><br>[Mark Bartlett 26/02/2009]](/images/22000/22875.jpg "Newton")
![334 010 comes east off the former 'Switchbank' and 'Argyle Line' at Rutherglen station. The current station is distant right (which will become almost a subterranean station under the M74 extension) and main line to Glasgow Central is on the left.<br><br>[Ewan Crawford 29/03/2009]](/images/28000/28187.jpg "Rutherglen Central Junction")
![Royal Scot 46115 <I>Scots Guardsman</I> runs through Uddingston station on 9 April 2009 with the 'Great Britain II' railtour.<br><br>[Ian Millar 09/04/2009]](/images/60000/60875.jpg "Uddingston")
![Lanark bound 334 030 calls at Uddingston on 29 May 2009.<br><br>[John Steven 29/05/2009]](/images/23000/23907.jpg "Uddingston")
![318 262 about to pull away from the Uddingston stop on 29 May.<br><br>[John Steven 29/05/2009]](/images/23000/23919.jpg "Uddingston")
![The main line platforms at Rutherglen, looking south on 1 June 2009. These platforms were abandoned in 1979.<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/2009]](/images/23000/23950.jpg "Rutherglen (Old)")
![A 6-car 334 combination on a service to Motherwell via Blantyre seen at Cambuslang on 1 June 2009<br><br>[David Panton 01/06/2009]](/images/24000/24028.jpg "Cambuslang")
![<I>Light at the end of the tunnel</I> as Motherwell bound 318 254 approaches the platforms of Cambuslang station on 3 June.<br><br>[John Steven 03/06/2009]](/images/23000/23967.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Rear end of 318 264 on a Motherwell bound train at Cambuslang on 3 June.<br><br>[John Steven 03/06/2009]](/images/23000/23974.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Back end of 318 263 forming a Partick bound train at Cambuslang on 3 June.<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 03/06/2009]](/images/23000/23982.jpg "Cambuslang")
![318 269 awaits its departure time from Newton on 23 June with a service for Glasgow Central.<br><br>[John Steven 23/06/2009]](/images/24000/24273.jpg "Newton")
![The main station building at Newton looking east towards Newton East Junction and the reversing siding on 23 June. <br><br>[John Steven 23/06/2009]](/images/24000/24300.jpg "Newton")
![314 205 at Newton on 23 June with a service from Glasgow Central. <br><br>[John Steven 23/06/2009]](/images/24000/24315.jpg "Newton")
![156 511 calls at Uddingston with a service from Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts on 17 February. It will run non-stop to Glasgow Central mainline station, as opposed to the more frequent but stopping electric services which use the Argyle Line, thus Glasgow Central Low Level. At Uddingston Junction in the background the WCML curves right, while the line through Bellshill, though of necessity feathered left on the signal, goes straight on.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 17/02/2010]](/images/27000/27806.jpg "Uddingston")
![318 256 with a service for Dalmuir stands at Uddingston on 17 February 2010<br><br>[David Panton 17/02/2010]](/images/27000/27876.jpg "Uddingston")
![You don't have to wait long to see a train at Newton, though most of <br>
them are either whooshing by on the WCML which bypasses it and which <br>
also carries local services via Bellshill, or are Larkhall trains which don't stop here. Nevertheless the Glasgow-bound platform sees four departures an hour during the day, each with a different route. 318 263 for Milngavie has picked up quite a crowd on this fine Saturday lunchtime on 24 April. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 24/04/2010]](/images/28000/28703.jpg "Newton")
![334 009 passes through Uddingston in June 2010.<br><br>[John Steven /06/2010]](/images/29000/29599.jpg "Uddingston")
![Partick bound 318 270, awaiting departure from Uddingston on 2 June 2010.<br><br>[John Steven 02/06/2010]](/images/29000/29230.jpg "Uddingston")
![Glasgow Central - Edinburgh Waverley service, formed by 156446, passing through Uddingston on 2 June 2010. <br><br>[John Steven 02/06/2010]](/images/29000/29283.jpg "Uddingston")
![The tendency for Scottish placenames to sound more romantic than than the actuality, and the tendency for rail locations to look more leafy than their immediate surroundings come together at Cambuslang, where 318 262 is seen calling with a Dalmuir service on 14 July. <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29811.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Unusually, Cambuslang sports a line diagram above the street entrance, seen here in July 2010. It's almost as if ScotRail is hoping to lure people into taking an impulse journey to Airbles or Wishaw. It's not clear why the Hamilton Circle is depicted the wrong way round, or why Newton is shown as common to both sides. <br>
<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/07/2010]](/images/29000/29883.jpg "Cambuslang")
![318 254 pulls into Platform 3 at Motherwell on 14 August on its rather convoluted route from Lanark to Dalmuir via the Hamilton Circle. These workings alternate with the direct services which leave Motherwell in the 'right' and opposite direction. The VT car stop sign is a bit of a red herring as this is not the main line and non-SPT services would only come via Hamilton during a rare diversion.<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30241.jpg "Motherwell")
![334 016 pulls into the up main platform 1 at Motherwell on 14 August with a service to Lanark.<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30274.jpg "Motherwell")
![On 14 August unit 334 024 calls at Newton with a services for Motherwell. On the far right are the wires of the WCML, which also carries local services as far as Uddingston Junction. A connection exists allowing eastbound trains through Newton station to rejoin this line and vice-versa. It is shown on the ScotRail network map as 'Limited Service', but in the current passenger timetable this is limited to no service at all.<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30287.jpg "Newton")
![224 027 approaches Motherwell on 14 August with a circle service <br>
which has come via Hamilton. All such services in both directions are announced as terminating at Motherwell, though in fact trains wait only a few minutes before continuing in the same direction to return towards Glasgow.<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30348.jpg "Motherwell")
![The driver of 314 205 has changed ends at Newton on 14 August and is ready to return to Glasgow, this time via Maxwell Park. There is no reason why these trains from the Cathcart lines can't continue towards Motherwell, as they have done in the past [see image 30117], but for decades now these services have stuck to their rigid timetable, leaving the lines beyond Newton East Junction to Argyle Line services. <br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30370.jpg "Newton")
![Looking south over Motherwell station on 14 August 2010. Main line <br>
platforms are on the left, with Hamilton Circle platforms 3 and 4 and then stabling at the far right. Platform 3 is considerably longer than Platform 4, but having no main line services is rather unlikely to see its full 12-carriage length filled! <br>
<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30474.jpg "Motherwell")
![Caverns measureless to Man. The subway linking the platforms at Newton is more generously proportioned than most, and no 'Mind your head' notices are needed here. The access to the right leads to Newton Station Road, which gives a clue that the station isn't really in Newton which is not in any case a substantial village; it's really in Hallside. Surprising then that it's the station bearing Britain's commonest placename. [See image 6285]<br><br>[David Panton 14/08/2010]](/images/30000/30534.jpg "Newton")
![Rutherglen Central Junction is where the Argyle Line, left, meets the<br>
main lines from Glasgow Central. 318 256 has left Rutherglen station (behind the camera) and is joining the Up Slow line to allow at Virgin service on the Up Main (second from right) to pass before itself joining the WCML at Rutherglen East. After Rutherglen East the overhead wires on the slow line disappear as it becomes the Whifflet line. <br><br>[David Panton 16/10/2010]](/images/31000/31123.jpg "Rutherglen Central Junction")
![Virgin Voyager 221 111 westbound approaching Uddingston on 16 June 2010.<br><br>[John Steven 16/6//2010]](/images/29000/29412.jpg "Uddingston")
![66422+66411 <I>'Eddie the Engine'</I> on the 6M22 Hunterston flasks heading south through Uddingston on 21 January 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 21/01/2011]](/images/32000/32494.jpg "Uddingston")
![East Coast Railways 07.00 King's Cross - Glasgow Central photographed at Motherwell on 12 May 2011.<br><br>[Ken Browne 12/05/2011]](/images/34000/34102.jpg "Motherwell")
![A Virgin Pendolino heads south east away from Uddingston during the evening of 9 June 2011.<br><br>[John Steven 09/06/2011]](/images/34000/34432.jpg "Uddingston")
![Westbound 318 251 approaching Uddingston on the evening of 9th June 2011.<br>
<br><br>[John Steven 09/06/2011]](/images/34000/34524.jpg "Uddingston")
![The 11.09 Glasgow Central - Manchester Airport approaching Motherwell on 30 January 2014 after clearing Logans Road level crossing. The train will run non-stop through Motherwell station, its first call being Lockerbie.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/01/2014]](/images/46000/46131.jpg "Logans Road Level Crossing")
![View north from the footbridge over Logans Road level crossing on the WCML just to the north of Motherwell station on 30 January 2014. The train is the 11.09 TransPennine Glasgow Central - Manchester Airport.<br><br>[John Furnevel 30/01/2014]](/images/46000/46171.jpg "Logans Road Level Crossing")
![The 1840 Pendolino from Glasgow Central passes Newton West Junction at speed on a Bank Holiday Monday in August 2014. Engineering works at Watford mean the service will terminate at Milton Keynes on this occasion.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 25/08/2014]](/images/48000/48476.jpg "Newton")
![Though one of the less exotic trains to use the line, this humble Class 156 DMU, on a service from Edinburgh to Glasgow Central via Shotts, nonetheless makes a fine sight crossing the Clyde viaduct at Uddingston in the winter sunshine on 13th January 2015.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 13/01/2015]](/images/50000/50032.jpg "Uddingston")
![The 1848 Caledonian Railway cast iron viaduct at Uddingston (foreground) looks solid enough in 2015 (and was put on the market for sale in 1993) but is now designated <I>'At Risk'</I>. Its 1903 latticework replacement (behind) still carries the West Coast Main Line, Edinburgh and local traffic across the Clyde between Uddingston and Newton.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 13/01/2015]](/images/50000/50038.jpg "Uddingston")
![Contractors at work on 5 February 2015 sealing off the overbridge which carries Old Mill Road across both the West Coast main line and the Kirkhill line at Cambuslang. The bridge has had a weight limit in place for some time and is to be replaced with a new concrete structure. The work is scheduled for completion by the autumn of 2015.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 05/02/2015]](/images/50000/50259.jpg "Cambuslang")
![A class 380 on an Ayr - Edinburgh service passes under the last remaining section of the Old Mill Road bridge across the West Coast Main Line at Cambuslang on 22nd May 2015. To the left, the first section of the replacement bridge is now in place across the Cathcart line [see image 50259].<br><br>[Colin McDonald 22/05/2015]](/images/51000/51404.jpg "Cambuslang")
![DB Schenker class 90s 90019+90029 working 6V15 Mossend to Didcot through Motherwell on 14 July 2015. The third locomotive is 67011, dead in transit.<br><br>[Ken Browne 14/07/2015]](/images/52000/52387.jpg "Motherwell")
![The 1440 Glasgow Central - Euston Pendolino passes under the partly constructed Old Mill Road bridge across the WCML at Cambuslang on 28th August 2015. The rebuilt bridge is due to open at the end of October 2015 [see image 51404].<br><br>[Colin McDonald 28/08/2015]](/images/52000/52398.jpg "Cambuslang")
![Fossil fuel express changing the climate locally on 10th December 2015. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 10/12/2015]](/images/53000/53539.jpg "Newton West Junction")
![The 1049 Newton - Glasgow Central passes under the now reopened Old Mill Road bridge across the WCML at Cambuslang on 10th December 2015. [see image 51404].<br><br>[Colin McDonald 10/12/2015]](/images/53000/53546.jpg "Cambuslang")
![A rather full train from Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts is about to get even fuller at its last calling point, Uddingston, on 30/04/2016.<br><br>[David Panton 30/04/2016]](/images/54000/54985.jpg "Uddingston")
![A basket tree and the new cycle shelter at Uddingston<br><br>[John Yellowlees 14/06/2016]](/images/55000/55564.jpg "Uddingston")
![A new book 'Steam at Motherwell - Pictorial Record of Steam Trains During early 1960s' has been published by Jim and Alice Prentice. 32 pages 147 x 210 mm of Black and White photographs (see image). Published by the authors at 23 Ross Gardens, Motherwell, ML1 3BE. Price £7.60 including postage. Payment: Cheques payable to Jim Prentice. Enquiries: jprentice23@yahoo.co.uk<br><br>[Jim Prentice 17/10/2016]](/images/56000/56834.jpg "Motherwell")
![For passengers who have joined this train from Dalmuir via Whifflet it ostensibly terminates here at Motherwell, but in fact it carries on back to Dalmuir via the Hamilton circle. It's perhaps not surprising it's not announced as a through service as it would cause some confusion. Photographed 11/02/2017.<br><br>[David Panton 11/02/2017]](/images/58000/58204.jpg "Motherwell")
![View north west, from the trackbed of the former Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge line, across Uddingston Junction at the point where the GBH&C crossed over the Caledonian's Edinburgh and Glasgow tracks as well as the Clydesdale Section tracks. The train passing is an Edinburgh – Glasgow via Shotts DMU.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 24/02/2017]](/images/58000/58391.jpg "Uddingston Junction")
![DB Cargo 66099 heads 6K31 Carlisle NY to Rannoch engineers consist North through Motherwell on 9 March 2017. On the adjacent track Pendolino 390119 is heading for London Euston with train 1M17, the 1640 ex Glasgow Central.<br><br>[Ken Browne 09/03/2017]](/images/58000/58477.jpg "Motherwell")
![Royal Mail emu 325001 approaching Motherwell on 9 March 2017 working ecs to Shieldmuir Mail Terminal, from where it would later form 1M03 to Warrington.<br><br>[Ken Browne 09/03/2017]](/images/58000/58489.jpg "Motherwell")
![320412 + 320313 pausing at Motherwell on 9 March with 2C06 Milngavie to Cumbernauld. Alongside is 320311 on 2B92 Glasgow Central to Lanark. Unit 320412 is one of the Ex London Midland class 321 4 car EMUs converted to 3 cars for Scotrail services.<br><br>[Ken Browne 09/03/2017]](/images/58000/58492.jpg "Motherwell")
![37116 tailed by 37025 'Inverness TMD' on 108N at Motherwell, 21st March 2017.<br>
<br>
<br><br>[Ian Millar 21/03/2017]](/images/58000/58691.jpg "Motherwell")
![WCRC 37518 leads Black 5s 45212 and 45407 north through Uddingston on 10 April 2017 with <I>the Jacobite</I> on an empty carriage movement from Carnforth to Fort William. <br><br>[Colin McDonald 10/04/2017]](/images/58000/58828.jpg "Uddingston")
![Black 5 45212 (with 37518 leading and Black 5 45407 following) heads the Jacobite on an empty carriage movement from Carnforth to Fort William. The route included the Argyle line through Central Low level which must have caused some surprise to waiting passengers.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 10/04/2017]](/images/58000/58829.jpg "Uddingston")
![Saturday morning at Motherwell Platform 3. This six-car 318 has come from<br>
Dalmuir via Whifflet and will return to Dalmuir via Blantyre. These service<br>
patterns take some getting used to.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2017]](/images/60000/60678.jpg "Motherwell")
![A Lanark to Glasgow Central service calls at a well-kept Uddingston on 2nd<br>
September 2017. Having been brought up in Duddingston I've always felt that<br>
Uddingston has something lacking.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2017]](/images/60000/60712.jpg "Uddingston")
![An Ayr to Edinburgh via Glasgow Central service calls at Motherwell on 2nd<br>
September 2017.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2017]](/images/60000/60718.jpg "Motherwell")
![318254, working a Dalmuir bound service, calls at Cambuslang on 2nd September 2017.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 02/09/2017]](/images/60000/60731.jpg "Cambuslang")
![1st class Coach L of a refurbished VTEC Intercity 225 set, complete with purple LED lighting. The unadvertised feature of some seats failing to recline on demand seems to have been retained.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 22/09/2017]](/images/61000/61040.jpg "Motherwell")
![Comin' at ya. A westbound service pulls out of Newton on 16th December 2017. 318s<br>
are the most common fare on Argyle Line services, as seen here. 314s form the<br>
Cathcart Lines trains - for now, anyway.<br>
<br><br>[David Panton 23/12/2017]](/images/63000/63202.jpg "Newton")
![37884 brings the first of the new Mk 5 Caledonian Sleeper stock from Wembley to Polmadie on 16th january 2018.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 16/01/2018]](/images/62000/62522.jpg "Uddingston")
![The first of the new Mk 5 Caledonian Sleeper stock passing through Uddingston on the delivery run on 16th January 2018. These are due to be introduced in to service from October 2018.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 16/01/2018]](/images/62000/62523.jpg "Uddingston")
![My first fleeting glimpse of the new Caledonian Sleeper coaches as the first of the stock to be delivered speeds through Uddingston on 16th January 2018 on its way to Polmadie.<br><br>[Colin McDonald 16/01/2018]](/images/62000/62524.jpg "Uddingston")
