Cleghorn

Location type

Station

Names and dates

Lanark [1st] (1848-1855)
Cleghorn Junction [Station] (1855-1864)
Cleghorn (1864-1965)

Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.

Opened on the Caledonian Railway.

Description

This was a two platform station nearly two and a half miles north of Lanark.

After the opening of the Lanark Branch (Caledonian Railway) in 1855 it became a junction station for the new branch. Trains from the Motherwell and Glasgow direction could take the branch south.

There were two short platforms on the west side of the level crossing. A goods shed was to the west of the station, on the north side, approached from the east. The main station building was on the eastbound platform. Waiting shelters were on each platform.

The proximity of the goods yard prevented the platforms being lengthened and the east end was constrained by the level crossing. Possibly due to the lack of space the signal box was on the east side of the level crossing, south of the line. It closed with the station in 1965.

The station house remains standing, little else remains of the station. Cleghorn Junction to the east of the level crossing and Mouse Water viaduct remains open for Lanark.

Tags

Station junction

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
NLS Map
03/07/2019




Chronology Dates

  /  /1847Lanark Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Lanark branch authorised to Cleghorn.

News items

04/12/2016Car crashes into Virgin train at level crossing in Lanarkshire [STV News]

Books


An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

Bradshaw's Guides Scotlands Railways West Coast - Carlisle to Inverness: 5

Caledonian Dunalastairs and Associated Classes (Locomotive Monograph)

Caledonian in LMS Days (Railways in Retrospect)

Caledonian Railway

Caledonian Railway Carriages

Caledonian Railway Livery: The True Line Elegance and Style

Caledonian Railway Wagons & Non-Passenger Coaching Stock

Caledonian Routes 3: Stirling to Crianlarich - DVD - Oakwood Press

Caley to the Coast: Rothesay by Wemyss Bay (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Callander & Oban Railway Through Time

Callander and Oban Railway (Library of Railway History)

Carlisle To Beattock: including the Dumfries Branch (Scottish Main Lines)

Carlisle to Hawick: The Waverley Route (Scml)

Signalling the Caledonian Railway

The Caledonian Railway 'jumbos' the 18in. X 26in. 0-6-0s

The Caledonian, Scotland's Imperial Railway: A History

The Vanished Railways of Old Western Dunbartonshire (Britains Railways/Old Photos)

Through Scotland with the Caledonian Railway

Vanished Railways of West Lothian