Calder Viaduct [Ravenscraig]
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Calder Viaduct [Ravenscraig] (1957-1992)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Description
This was a double track girder viaduct over the South Calder Water to the north of the Ravenscraig Steel Works. It connected the works to the slag processing and balling plant to the north (there had also been a scrap processing area).
The bridge survived the closure of the works and its demolition, but was demolished in the early 2000s.
Just to the east is the Calder Viaduct [Carfin] on the Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway) and just to the west the a surprising survivor, an old road bridge. This bridge, at a much lower level, is the Carfin Bridge which carried Carfin Road north-south through the area before the works was built.
To the west much of the South Calder Water was culverted, which allowed the slag area to expand over many years. Carfin House was once located here.
Tags
Viaduct South Calder Water09/02/2021
| Nearby stations Carfin Flemington Shieldmuir Motherwell Junction Holytown Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Motherwell Bridge Cleland [1st] Airbles Cleland Wishaw Wishaw South Holytown [1st] Mossend | Calder Viaduct [Carfin] Carfin Colliery Pits Nos 6 and 7 Ravenscraig Slag Processing Ravenscraig Sinter Plant Nether Johnstone Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Ravenscraig BOS Plant Carfin Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Ravenscraig Coke Ovens 1,2,3 Ravenscraig Blast Furnace No 3 Middle Johnstone Colliery Pit No 10 Ravenscraig Steel Works Ravenscraig Blast Furnaces No 1,2 Tourist/other Ravenscraig No 2 Signal Box Carfin House Carfin Colliery Signal Box |
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