Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway)

Introduction

This line is open to passenger traffic and goods traffic. It runs from Lesmahagow Junction by Motherwell (New) station to Braidhurst (to the south of Mossend) it joins the original route through Motherwell. The course of the original route has now largely disappeared save for an abandoned viaducts piers and some hints of track formation.






Dates

  /  /1847Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway)
Motherwell and Wishaw and Coltness Connecting Branch authorised.
  /  /1848Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway)
Motherwell and Wishaw and Coltness Connecting Branch abandoned.
  /  /1854Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway)
Line authorised as the Motherwell Branch. This line would improve connections at Lesmahagow Junction and bypass and replace the Jerviston Viaduct.
08/10/1857Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway)
Line opened from Jerviston Junction (Wishaw and Coltness Railway) to Lesmahagow Junction (Clydesdale Junction Railway). The line allowed Motherwell [1st] station to be moved further west to Motherwell atLesmahagow Junction. Motherwell [1st] remained standing and Motherwell was opened in the V of the junction at Lesmahagow Junction. A large viaduct was required, Braidhurst Viaduct.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

At Milnwood Junction, just south of the former Holytown [1st] and south of the former Mossend station and Mossend Marshalling Yard, lines from Bellshill, Mossend and Holytown meet. To the south was Jerviston Junction and the lines to Clydesdale Steel Works.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Clydesdale Steel Works Railways
Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
A class 08 shunter heads north at Milnwood Junction, heading for Mossend Yard, in 1988. Clydesdale Steelworks is on the left.
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Bill Roberton //1988
Looking south at Mossend South Junction. The former Clydesdale Steelworks are on the left. ...
Ewan Crawford //
View over Milnwood / Mossend South Junction with lines diverging to Holytown, Coatbridge Central and Bellshill. In the background is British Steel ...
Bill Roberton 01/05/1991
Aerial view of the junctions to the south of Mossend Yard looking west. Note the Freightliner on the north to east curve. ...
Ewan Crawford //
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This junction was south of Milnwood Junction. Most recently (1993) it provided access to the line to Ravenscraig No 3 Yard used for trips from Mossend Marshalling Yard to deliver limestone to the works and take strip coil away. It had also served the sizeable Clydesdale Steel Works yard, which closed slightly earlier.
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Clydesdale Steel Works Railways
Motherwell New Lines (Caledonian Railway)
Ravenscraig Steelworks (David Colville and Sons)


This masonry viaduct carries the double track Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway) over the South Calder Water.
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Standard 9F 2-10-0 92019 heads tender first across Braidhurst viaduct, on its way from Motherwell MPD to Larbert to take charge of the ICI Soda Ash ...
Robin McGregor 10/05/1967
View looking west to the Braidhurst Viaduct on the Motherwell Deviation. The deviation runs from Jerviston Junction (New) south to Lesmahagow Junction ...
Ewan Crawford 10/05/2008
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This is at the north end of the former Motherwell MPD. The former shed is on the west side of the line. The Braidburst Loops are on either side of the line between here and Lesmahagow Junction. To the north is the Braidhurst Viaduct.
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This is a double ended shed with ten roads located to the west of the Motherwell Deviation Line and just north of Lesmahagow Junction. Approach is from the north and south.
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37150 (before being re-engined and converted) on Motherwell Depot with a classmate in the summer of 1983. The former D6850 became 37901 'Mirrlees ...
Crinan Dunbar //1983
Class 20s, and a Class 08, at Motherwell Depot around 1982. ...
Crinan Dunbar //1982
37056 and 37155 on shed at Motherwell depot. To me, from Essex, these were rare locos at the time. No doubt those who were local to Motherwell would ...
Roger Geach 04/05/1982
An unidentified Class 37 pokes its nose out of Motherwell shed in August 1983.
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Crinan Dunbar /08/1983
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This structural works was located in Motherwell on the east side of the Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway) just north of Lesmahagow Junction (and opposite [[Motherwell Shed).
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This is a junction just north of Motherwell station.
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Clydesdale Junction Railway
Lesmahagow Railway
Britannia Pacific 70009 proved to be 'Alfred the Not-so-great' on 3rd Jan 1967. Steam haulage between Glasgow and Carlisle had by that time become a ...
Robin McGregor 03/01/1967
View across Lesmahagow Junction with a ballast train in the foreground reversing into the Findlay sidings. In the background is 37140 with a permanent ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
26 011 shunts ballast at Lesmahagow Junction, Motherwell. ...
Ewan Crawford //1988
A Black 5 leaves Motherwell on 5 July 1964 with a stopping train for Glasgow Central. ...
John Robin 05/07/1964
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