Garriongill Junction

Location type

Junction

Name and dates

Garriongill Junction (1848-2015)

Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Caledonian Railway.
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.

Description

This junction was the location where the Wishaw and Coltness Railway (this portion opened around 1842) was met by the Caledonian Railway in 1848. The Caledonian used the W&C as part of its approach to Glasgow and to the north.

Going east on the W&C the line dropped to a single track at the foot of the Morningside Incline (at Morningside Incline Signal Box). The line continued to the Coltness Iron Works and beyond.

There were sidings at the junction which were expanded to include a yard on the north side, west of the junction and approached from the east, and another to the south, east of the junction and approached from the west. A signal box was built north of the junction.

In 1880 the Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway) opened connecting the main line south at Law Junction to Carfin Junction, this new line flying over the top of the W&C just east of the junction.

The signal box closed in 1973, replaced by the Motherwell Signalling Centre. The junction became a single lead with a loop at the start of the W&C line.

After closure of the line to Kingshill Colliery No 1 in 1974 the W&C route was reduced to a short branch to the Costain concrete works.

The loop by the junction was taken out in advance of the deviation line's deteriorating bridge over the older line was replaced.

It served a short lived coal loading pad near Stirling Road Junction (Watsonhead Loading Pad) in the 2000s. The junction was taken out around 2015.

Tags

Junction

External links

NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914
NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
08/09/2023


Chronology Dates

  /  /1848Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Deviation and improvement, between Garriongill Junction and Whifflet and with new curve at Carnbroe, authorised.
  /  /2015Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Garriongill Junction taken out.

Books


A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series)

An Illustrated History of Carlisle's Railways

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

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)

Old Newmains and the Villages Around Wishaw

Old Wishaw

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

Wishaw 1896: Lanarkshire Sheet 18.03 (Old O.S. Maps of Lanarkshire)