Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)





Dates

  /  /1873Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Mossend branch authorised. Fullwood Junction (the east junction at Mossend) to Milnwood Junction (south) authorised. Mossend Junction to Mossend North Junction [1st] authorised.
  /  /1878Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Fullwood Junction (the east junction as Mossend) to Milnwood Junction (south) approved line altered and re-authorised.
  /  /1878Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Milnwood Junction to Fullwood Junction curve authorised.
01/10/1878Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction opened for goods. This new line would allow trains from the Shotts route to approach Glasgow Central (under construction) rather than Buchanan Street.
30/12/1878Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Mossend branch opened for goods from Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction and a curve from Mossend Junction to Mossend North Junction [1st].
01/05/1879Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Mossend branch opened for passengers from Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction. Associated with the impending opening of Glasgow Central and the diversion of trains from Edinburgh Princes Street via Shotts from Buchanan Street.
01/06/1879Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Milnwood Junction to Fullwood Junction opened.
  /  /1899Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Mossend west (Mossend No 4 Junction) to south (Milnwood Junction) curve authorised.
01/04/1903Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Mossend west (Mossend No 4 Junction) to south (Milnwood Junction) curve opened.
  /  /1907Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Authorisation to buy land to improve Fullwood Junction. The double junction would be rebuilt, line west modified and southern curve eased.
  /11/2011Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)
Car park under construction at Bellshill.

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This line is divided into a number of portions.


Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction

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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Clydesdale Junction Railway
Looking west over Uddingston Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //1987
Looking east at Uddingston Junction. ...
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Double headed Class 20s, with 20123 leading, passing Uddingston Junction in the 1970s with iron ore empties from Ravenscraig Steel Works heading for ...
Ian Millar //
View north west, from the trackbed of the former Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge line, across Uddingston Junction at the point where the ...
Colin McDonald 24/02/2017
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This is a two platform station. The station is elevated above street level and has a footbridge.
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314201 leaves Bellshill, with a service for Lanark, in 1986.
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Bill Roberton //1986
A Glasgow Central to Edinburgh stopping service calls at Bellshill on 2
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David Panton 02/09/2017
A Glasgow Central service calls at Bellshill on 25 August 2018. Unusually, there seems to be more custom on the Edinburgh-bound platform. ...
David Panton 25/08/2018
318 254 westbound from Bellshill on 9 June 2009. ...
John Steven 09/06/2009
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This is the western of the Mossend junctions where the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Shotts line is met with a curve allowing a train from the Glasgow and Bellshill direction to take to the line south to Motherwell.
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This is a three way junction south east of the Mossend Marshalling Yard on the Glasgow Central - Shotts - Edinburgh Waverley route.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Freightliner heading east and about to turn south at Mossend East Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
Approaching Mossend East Junction from the east. In the left background is the Fullwood Steelworks. Clyde Cranes was off to the left. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
Freightliner-hauled container train passing Mossend East Junction in 2001. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
Freight at Mossend East Junction in 2001. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
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Mossend West Junction to Mossend No 1 Junction

This is the western of the Mossend junctions where the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Shotts line is met with a curve allowing a train from the Glasgow and Bellshill direction to take to the line south to Motherwell.
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This junction was south of the western platforms of Mossend station on the Mossend West Junction to Mossend No 1 Junction curve. The junction opened in 1902 when a new line opened south to Milnwood Junction, effectively quadrupling the line from Jerviston Junction (to the south) through Milnwood Junction to the south end of Mossend Marshalling Yard at [[Mossend No 1 ...

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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
Mossend Marshalling Yard (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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This junction is just north of the former Mossend station and just south of Mossend Marshalling Yard.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Mossend Marshalling Yard (Caledonian Railway)
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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Fullwood Junction to Milnwood Junction

This is a three way junction south east of the Mossend Marshalling Yard on the Glasgow Central - Shotts - Edinburgh Waverley route.
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Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Freightliner heading east and about to turn south at Mossend East Junction. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
Approaching Mossend East Junction from the east. In the left background is the Fullwood Steelworks. Clyde Cranes was off to the left. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
Freightliner-hauled container train passing Mossend East Junction in 2001. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
Freight at Mossend East Junction in 2001. ...
Ewan Crawford //2001
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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
Motherwell Deviation Line (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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