Station
Carfin (1834-1882)
Holytown (1882-)
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts.
This is a minimal two platform station. There is a car park on the north side.
At its height this was a four platform station - two through platforms and a bay at either end - a bay on the south side at the west end of the westbound platform and a bay on the north side at the east end of the eastbound platform.
The platforms were canopied. There were no goods facilities.
Holytown Colliery Pit No 8 was to the west, south of the line. Holytown Colliery Pit No 5 was to the east, north side of the line.
Holytown Junction is to the east.
There was a signal box at the west end of the station on the north side of the line. This opened in 1880 when the Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway) opened, starting from Holytown Junction to the east of the station (and controlled by a separate signal box). The station box closed in 1957.
Nearby stations Holytown Carfin Holytown [1st] Mossend Motherwell Motherwell [2nd] Motherwell Bridge Bellshill Flemington Airbles Chapelhall Bellshill [NB] Newhouse Cleland [1st] Calderbank | Other railway and industry locations Coal Pit Holytown Junction Coal Pit Carfin Chemical Works Carfin Boiler Works Carfin Brick Works Fullwood Junction Clydesdale Steelworks Lanarkshire Bridge Works Carfin Colliery Pit No 3 Thankerton No 6 Colliery |
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. |