This line is open. The line extended the Polloc and Govan Railway from Rutherglen to Motherwell and took over the older line. A branch was laid to a new terminus at South Side in Glasgow. The line also included the Hamilton Branch (Caledonian Railway).
/ /1845 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Act receives Royal assent. The line was authorised from Glasgow, using the Polloc and Govan Railway to reach Hamilton with a branch to Motherwell [1st], the forks dividing at the later Newton station. The line would bring coal from pits in the Hamilton area, owned by the Dixons amongst others, to the Govan Iron Works. The Motherwell branch was authorised to not to be opened until the Caledonian Railway reached the Wishaw and Coltness Railway. |
/ /1846 | Clydesdale Junction RailwayCaledonian Railway Clydesdale Junction Railway absorbed by Caledonian Railway. |
/ /1846 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Authorisation for an Eglinton Street branch - opened to South Side [CR]. |
/ /1846 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Branches to Househill, by the Levern Water near the Hurlet Colliery Tramway, and Thornliebank authorised. Neither built at this time. |
/ /1846 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Deviation to route between Rutherglen and Hamilton authorised. |
/ /1846 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Authorisation altered to allow the Motherwell [1st] branch to be opened before completion of the Caledonian Railway. |
/ /1847 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Branch to Auchenheath and Canderside authorised, not built in this form. |
/ /1847 | Lesmahagow Railway 'Lesmahagow Branches' line authorised from Blantyre, on the Clydesdale Junction Railway, to Weston (Lesmahagow), Canderside to Strathaven, Forkins to Bankend, and Forkins to Fauldhouse. |
01/06/1849 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Line opened between Rutherglen [1st] and Motherwell [1st]. The Caledonian Railway begins running trains from the Glasgow terminus South Side [CR] station. Station opened to goods, passengers and minerals. This station opened on a short branch from the former Polloc and Govan Railway at Gushetfaulds. The terminus was immediately alongside the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston Direct Railway terminus. Stations opened at South Side [CR], Rutherglen [1st], Cambuslang, Uddingston [1st]. |
01/06/1849 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Glasgow to Hamilton branch opened. |
17/09/1849 | Hamilton Branch (Caledonian Railway) Hamilton Junction to Hamilton opened. Blantyre opens, an intermediate station. Originally promoted as the Clydesdale Junction Railway. |
17/09/1849 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Motherwell [1st] branch opened. |
/ /1851 | Clydesdale Junction RailwayCaledonian Railway The Caledonian Railway creates the Clydesdale Junction Guarantee Company for the Clydesdale Junction Railway, which it took over in 1846. |
/ /1854 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Proposed branch to Auchenheath abandoned (when the Lesmahagow Railway is authorised). |
/ /1857 | Clydesdale Junction Railway South Side [CR] station completed. The building was by William Tite and was shared with South Side [GB and NDR]. The mineral depot also opened - Gushetfaulds Goods. |
08/10/1857 | Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway) Line opened from Jerviston Junction (Wishaw and Coltness Railway) to Lesmahagow Junction (Clydesdale Junction Railway). The line allowed Motherwell [1st] station to be moved further west to Motherwell atLesmahagow Junction. Motherwell [1st] remained standing and Motherwell was opened in the V of the junction at Lesmahagow Junction. A large viaduct was required, Braidhurst Viaduct. |
20/11/1868 | Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) Clyde Iron Works branch ('Lanarkshire and Midlothian Branches' railway number 8) opened from the new Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) (1865), replacing earlier Clyde Iron Works Railways which ran directly from Cambuslang Goods on the Clydesdale Junction Railway. |
/ /1869 | Clydesdale Junction Railway South Side station (both halves South Side [CR] and South Side [GB and NDR]) vested in the Caledonian Railway and Glasgow and South Western Railway. |
/ /1872 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Authorisation to widen the line between Gushetfaulds Junction and Rutherglen Junction. The line was increased from double track to at least quadruple track between the junctions. |
/ /1872 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Authorisation for a new Caledonian Railway branch to South Side given. Powers allowed to lapse 1874. |
/ /1872 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Caledonian Railway authorised to handle certain traffic at South Side [CR] station. |
/ /1875 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Caledonian Railway authorised to fully use South Side [CR] for goods. |
01/07/1879 | Clydesdale Junction Railway South Side [CR] closed. (Or 01/08/1879.) |
/ /1880 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Power to widen the line between Rutherglen Junction and Cambuslang granted to the Caledonian Railway. An additional line, northbound slow, would be added. |
/ /1880 | Clydesdale Junction Railway The Caledonian Railway winds up the Clydesdale Junction Railway Guaranteed Company. |
/ /1880 | Clydesdale Junction Railway For Motherwell station, deviation of a road, Muir Street, is authorised. |
/ /1885 | Clydesdale Junction Railway
Lesmahagow Railway New Motherwell station opened in the 'V' of Lesmahagow Junction. |
/ /1898 | Clydesdale Junction Railway
Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway Widening of Newton station approved due to increased traffic and the impending opening of the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway. |
/ /1900 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Widening of Clyde Viaduct [Uddingston] authorised. |
23/01/1901 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Newton Widening and rebuilt and enlarged station opened. |
/ /1907 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Power to buy land for Rutherglen Goods authorised. |
/ /1910 | Polloc and Govan Railway
Clydesdale Junction Railway Opening out of Rutherglen Tunnel - Glasgow Road Bridge lengthening and stopping up and diversion of New Street authorised. |
/ /1910 | Clydesdale Junction Railway
Rutherglen and Coatbridge Branch (Caledonian Railway) Stopping up and relocation of Ballochmill Road authorised, to allow expansion of Rutherglen East Junction. |
/ /1911 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Authorisation for Fallside station to be rebuilt. |
/04/1970 | Caledonian Railway Wishaw and Coltness Railway Clydesdale Junction Railway Polloc and Govan Railway Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) West Coast Main Line electrification authorised. |
06/05/1974 | Caledonian Railway
Wishaw and Coltness Railway
Clydesdale Junction Railway
Polloc and Govan Railway
Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) Glasgow Central to Carlisle electrification complete. |
28/03/2000 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Derailment at Rutherglen Central Junction. |
/03/2003 | Clydesdale Junction Railway £580,000 allocated to be spent on renovating Newton station and adding a 100 space car park. |
/03/2008 | Clydesdale Junction Railway Strathclyde Passenger Transport estimates that a new interchange station at Motherwell will cost around £25M-£41M. |
This line is divided into a number of portions.
Motherwell Junction station to Rutherglen.
This station was located on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway where it was met by the Clydesdale Junction Railway. The station was just east of the junction.
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This signal box was north west of Motherwell Junction station (closed 1885) and south east of Motherwell station. It was on the main line and on the south/west side of the line just south of the Merry Street overbridge.
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This is a four platform station. The station is at the junction of the Glasgow Central to London Euston main line and the Hamilton Circle line to Hamilton Central. There are carriage sidings on the west side of the station, next to the northbound platform of the Hamilton Circle lines.
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This is a junction just north of Motherwell station.
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Formed in 1898 this company built bridges for sites worldwide. The business, after a number of changes of ownerships, still exists today with a changed focus to storage tanks, gasholders and their maintenance.
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This level crossing is north of Motherwell on the direct line to Glasgow.
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This is a six arch double track viaduct over the South Calder Water. The viaduct is between Uddingston and Motherwell.
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This signal box was north west of Motherwell on the direct line to Newton. It was a little to the west of the viaduct over the South Calder Water, Orbiston Viaduct.
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This signal box was located between Uddingston Junction and Motherwell. The box, opened 1877, was on the north side of the line. The Douglas Park Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 were on the south side of the line served by a siding from the west, starting a little way west from the box. On the north side was a branch which ran north to East Parkhead Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 (also served ...
More detailsThis signal box controlled access to Bothwell Park Colliery Pits No 1 and 2, also served by the North British Railway from the former Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatrbridge Railway.
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This colliery was served by both the North British Railway (approaching from the west) and Caledonian Railway (approaching from the south east). ...
More detailsThis was the junction for the Hamilton Palace Colliery. There was a single track trailing connection running a short distance south east (parallel to the main line) to meet the a connection from the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway. Close to the junction was a short loop on the Caledonian's approach. The line continuing south to the colliery was a joint [[Caledonian ...
More detailsThis works, also known as the Fallside Brick Works, was operated by the Fallside Brick & Quarry Co Ltd. The works had its own 2ft gauge railway and several locomotives, one of which was built by the company itself. Railway access was from Fallside Junction, to the west. The works was on the north side of the Clydesdale Junction Railway.
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The Bothwell [CR] branch started from this junction, immediately east of Fallside station. The signal box here was 'Bothwell Junction'. The first version of this was on the north side of junction. It was replaced in 1897 with a second box on the south side of the junction. This was when the Bothwell Park Brick Works opened. This was served by sidings on the north side of the main ...
More detailsThis station opened in 1873 at what became the junction of the short branch to Bothwell [CR] in 1877. Fallside House was to the north of the railway. There was no goods yard.
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This junction is east of Uddingston station. It is the junction between the Glasgow to Motherwell direct line (the 1849 Clydesdale Junction Railway) and line to Bellshill (1878 Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway)).
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The first Uddingston station was on the east side of the Glasgow Road bridge, replaced by the current Uddingston station on the west side. The permanent station building, on the westbound platform, was built in 1853.
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This is a two platform station. The red sandstone station building on the Glasgow bound platform remains standing. The goods yard was on the other side of Glasgow Road, north of the line and approached from the east. The original station, Uddingston [1st], was on this side of the road. Just to the east is Uddingston Junction.
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Two double track viaducts cross the River Clyde west of Uddingston station.
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This signal box was west of Uddingston, over the Clyde Viaduct [Uddingston]. It was the junction for Haughhead Colliery [Uddingston], to the north, and Blantyreferme Colliery, to the south. Both were served by short mineral lines approached from the west. Haughhead Colliery [Uddingston] had exchange sidings next to the main line, on its north side.
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This signal box was east of the site of the original Newton [1st] station. It was located on the south side of the line.
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This junction is immediately east of Newton station. Here the Hamilton Branch (Caledonian Railway) separates from the Clydesdale Junction Railway and heads south east to Hamilton. Both lines opened in 1849.
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This is a two platform station. The location was formerly a four platform station, the two northern tracks no longer have platforms and allow non-stop trains to bypass the station.
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Newton West Junction is to the west of Newton station. It is where lines divide into the bypass lines, to the north, and platform lines, to the south. The platform lines are joined by the line from Kirkhill, to the south west, as they approach the station. This location is called Newton Kirkhill Junction although it used to come under Newton West Junction.
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This junction was just west of Newton station. A siding ran south east to Gateside Colliery. On the north side was the start of a mineral line loop which ran north east and passed through Westburn Colliery before re-joining the line immediately west of Newton. The signal box was south of Gateside Junction.
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This was the signal box for the short mineral line to Kirkhill Colliery which was located on the north side of the railway east of Cambuslang station. To the east was Gateside Junction.
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This is a two platform station. Main Street is to the north, crossing over the line at the west end of the station. There were station buildings with glazed canopies, now gone. There was a signal box on the westbound platform until 1931.
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This goods station was to the north of Cambuslang station, not directly next to the station but at Silverbank. It was on the west (or south) side of the line, approached by reversal. There was a goods shed, sidings and crane. It was connected to the slow line for Rutherglen East Junction, to the west. There was a signal box west of the yard on the south side of the line. This closed in ...
More detailsThis junction is east of Rutherglen. It is the junction between the main line to the south out of Glasgow Central and the line east to Coatbridge Central and Whifflet.
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This goods yard was to the east of the present day Rutherglen station, immediately west of Rutherglen East Junction. The yard was on the north side of the line, approached by reversal from the east. The yard was small with a goods yard and pair of sidings. Sidings remain here today - permanent way sidings at the east end of Rutherglen Yard (largely removed for the M74 extension). ...
More detailsThis signal box was east of Rutherglen [2nd] station and controlled its eastern approach.
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This was a four platform station (two islands) on the east side of Farmeloan Road and just east of Dalmarnock Junction. Access to the platforms was from the road bridge to the west. Buildings were at the west ends of the platforms.
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This junction is south east of Rutherglen station. It is where the Argyle Line joins the West Coast Main Line from Glasgow Central High Level.
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This was a two platform station west of Farmeloan Road. The main building was on the westbound platform.
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This was a large station on two sides of a triangular junction with six platforms - four on the west to east main line and two on the west to north curve.
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This junction opened in 1892, the western end of a curve which ran north to Clyde Junction [CR]. It was named for the new Rutherglen [3rd] station which opened with two platforms on the new curve and four platforms on the main line east.
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This short tunnel under Glasgow Road and New Road, Rutherglen, was west of Rutherglen West Junction and east of Shawfield Junction.
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This location is to the east of Polmadie Depot and Polmadie Down Sidings, it is west of Rutherglen West Junction.
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A short line ran from Gushetfaulds Junction to South Side [CR] station terminus.
This junction was formed in 1849 when a short detached portion of the Clydesdale Junction Railway was opened from the former Polloc and Govan Railway (which the Clydesdale had purchased and upgraded) to a new terminus at South Side [CR]. This was an important new terminus in the south side of Glasgow, from 1849 the terminus for trains from England via the Caledonian Railway. ...
More detailsThis junction was not at Glasgow Central but around a mile and a half to the south at Gushetfaulds. Here the 1879 approach to Central station via Bridge Street met the existing lines (actually the Clydesdale Junction Railway built short link from Gushetfaulds Junction to South Side [CR].
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This considerable Caledonian Railway carriage shed (around 17 lines) was located between South Side [CR] (to the east) and the Gordon Street lines approaching Glasgow Central Station (Caledonian Railway) (with Gushetfaulds station to the south) and City of Glasgow Union Railway to the west. Approach was from Central Station Junction / [Gushetfaulds Junction]] to the east.
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This was the main Freightliner terminal in Glasgow. The site began as the goods and minerals portion main terminus on the south side of Glasgow, he passenger station actually called South Side [CR].
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This terminus was located between the junction of Pollokshaws Road and Cathcart Street. The west portion was the terminus of the Glasgow, Barrhead and Neilston direct Railway and the east portion opened with the Clydesdale Junction Railway. Alternative name: Southside.
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