Mossend Marshalling Yard (Caledonian Railway)




Dates

  /  /1897Mossend Marshalling Yard (Caledonian Railway)
Authorisation to purchase land for the Mossend Marshalling Yard.
  /  /1907Mossend Marshalling Yard (Caledonian Railway)
Authorisation to purchase further land at the north end of the existing yard.

Portions of line and locations

This line is divided into a number of portions.


Marshalling Yard

This tunnel was in the Carnbroe Estate and was opened out in 1855. It was on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway between, using modern references, the M8 (to the north) and Mossend Marshalling Yard (to the south). The tunnel may have been twin bore. Known as either Holytown or Carnbroe Tunnel.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway


This large yard spans both sides of the railway at Mossend. Today the yard consists of loops on either side of the line with freight depots on the west side and a fenced Euroterminal depot on the east side.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway
This NTS/DRS Class 68, seen stabled at Mossend, was renamed 'Pride of the North' at Mossend Yard on the 10th November. 68006 was used until last year ...
John Yellowlees 09/11/2021
303080 passes Mossend Yard with a service for Coatbridge Central in 1992.
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Bill Roberton //1992
On 9th November 90039 was named 'Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport', at a ceremony performed by Bill Reeve, Rail Director Transport ...
John Yellowlees 09/11/2021
A Class 26 passes Mossend Yard with a couple of open wagons in 1990. A Class 85 electric, probably also in its final days of service, can be seen in ...
Bill Roberton //1990
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This station was at the south end of Mossend Marshalling Yard. Holytown [1st] station closed when this station, just to its north, opened with two platforms on the line south and east and a further two platforms on the west to north curve of the Mossend junctions.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
A class 26 heads south from Mossend Down Yard in 1990, hauling empty flat wagons. ...
Bill Roberton //1990
Extract from the Scottish Region timetable for winter 1960-61, showing services through Mossend station which closed in 1962. In this period even the ...
David Panton 12/09/1960
Iron ore from Hunterston Terminal to Ravenscraig Steelworks is hauled out of Mossend Yard by 37099, 37010 and 37210 on 7 June 1990. ...
Bill Roberton 07/06/1990
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A pair of EE Type 3s, led by 37019, pass Mossend Yard with a long van train in 1992.
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Bill Roberton //1992
68006, on the empty coaching stock movement from Edinburgh to Motherwell, passing through Mossend Yard on 6th March 2019. It is very difficult to get ...
Alastair McLellan 06/03/2019
A 156 heads south through Mossend Yard in 2001. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
A class 37 brings a freight into the south end of Mossend yard in the summer of 1996. ...
John Furnevel 01/07/1996
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Iron and steel works

This large yard spans both sides of the railway at Mossend. Today the yard consists of loops on either side of the line with freight depots on the west side and a fenced Euroterminal depot on the east side.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway
This NTS/DRS Class 68, seen stabled at Mossend, was renamed 'Pride of the North' at Mossend Yard on the 10th November. 68006 was used until last year ...
John Yellowlees 09/11/2021
303080 passes Mossend Yard with a service for Coatbridge Central in 1992.
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Bill Roberton //1992
On 9th November 90039 was named 'Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport', at a ceremony performed by Bill Reeve, Rail Director Transport ...
John Yellowlees 09/11/2021
A Class 26 passes Mossend Yard with a couple of open wagons in 1990. A Class 85 electric, probably also in its final days of service, can be seen in ...
Bill Roberton //1990
4 of 16 images. more


This works was located on the west side of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway and north of the A775. It was initially a malleable iron works. This was the first malleable iron works in Scotland to use Henry Cort's puddling process.
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Summerlee Iron Co







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