Ravenscraig No 3 Yard

Location type

Sidings

Name and dates

Ravenscraig No 3 Yard (1956-1992)

Opened on the Ravenscraig Steelworks (David Colville and Sons).

Description

This yard of 9 sidings was located on the west side of the Ravenscraig Steelworks (David Colville and Sons). It was an exchange point between the steelworks and British Rail.

To the north was Merry Street Bridge.

Limestone, from Hardendale Quarry was worked through the yard, coming from Mossend Marshalling Yard to the north, and deposited at Ravenscraig No 1 Yard.

The yard was largely used to store strip coil wagons, empty and loaded. Ravenscraig Strip Mill was alongside, to the east.

Connections on the west side of the yard ran, via reversing spurs and a marshalling yard, to the Dalzell Steelworks (David Colville and Sons) (and formerly the Lanarkshire Steel Works).

The south end of the yard at Ravenscraig No 1 Signal Box connected to Ravenscraig No 1 Yard and a link to Shields Colliery Junction (taken out in the early 1980s and afterwards used to store wagons).

The site of the former yard is now New Craig Road alongside the Ravenscraig Sports Centre.

Tags

Marshalling yard Sidings
06/02/2021