Law Colliery Branch (Caledonian Railway)

Introduction

Also known as the Shawfield Branch. The short branch ran south west from Law Junction to serve the Law Collieries.




Dates

  /  /1866Law Colliery Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Shawfield Branch to Law Collieries opened.
04/11/1867Law Colliery Branch (Caledonian Railway)
Opened to minerals.

Locations along the line

These locations are along the line.

This was a four platform station which opened with the Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway) of 1880 which met the Caledonian Railway of 1848 here. The station had a more or less east-west alignment. At this station trains from Glasgow were met by trains from the north coming via the deviation and could be joined to continue the journey south.
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See also
Caledonian Railway
Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway)
GNSR 4-4-0 No.49 'Gordon Highlander' pauses at Law Junction, alongside an impressive lattice bracket signal, during a Branch Line Society rail tour on ...
Robin McGregor 16/10/1965
With the ground stained with coal waste, this was the trackbed of the Law Colliery Branch which served the numerous Law, Shawfield and Brownlee ...
Ewan Crawford //1987
DRS 88007 nears Law Junction with the Daventry - Mossend Tesco train. ...
Bill Roberton 25/09/2018
A TransPennine Class 350 speeds away from Law Junction on a Glasgow Central - Manchester Airport service on 25th September 2018. ...
Bill Roberton 25/09/2018
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