Dalzell Works Signal Box
Location type
Place
Name and dates
Dalzell Works Signal Box (1900-1972)
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Description
This box was on the south side of the West Coast Main Line at the point where the lines to the Dalzell Steel Works branched off to the north west. It replaced Colville's Sidings Signal Box (see entry for main details).
The box was necessitated by a great increase in sidings for the works. It was a timber built box opened in 1900.
Passing underneath, just to the west, was the alignment from Motherwell South Signal Box which flew under to reach the Lanarkshire Yard in the north part of the Dalzell Works and from which the Glasgow Rolling Stock and Plant Works and Lanarkshire Steel Works could be reached by reversal. This was the Dellburn Branch named for the works near the start of the branch.
The box closed in 1972 when the layout was considerably cut back. the Motherwell Signalling Centre took over the main line and remaining sidings.
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Signal box junctionNearby stations Flemington Motherwell Junction Airbles Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Bridge Motherwell Shieldmuir Ferniegair [2nd] Ferniegair [1st] Chatelherault Ferniegair [3rd] Carfin Holytown Wishaw Wishaw South | Other railway and industry locations Colville^s Sidings Signal Box Glasgow Rolling Stock and Plant Works Dalzell Malleable Iron Works Lanarkshire Steel Works Flemington Goods Dalzell Steel Works Lanarkshire Steel Works Signal Box Motherwell Signalling Centre Flemington Saw Mill Motherwell South Signal Box Coursington Colliery Coursington Colliery Pit No 2 Scrap loading Motherwell Colliery No 3 Watsonville Colliery Tourist/other Park Street Level Crossing |
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