This junction is east of Holytown station. The lines to Edinburgh via Midcalder Junction and Carlisle via Law Junction divide here, the latter being a Motherwell bypass, ideal for limited stop trains and freight from the Mossend Marshalling Yard.
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This signal box controlled access to the Jenny Lind Composition Works (which had tramway running to the east under the railway to Cleland Colliery Pit No 3) and Carfin Colliery Pits Nos 6 and 7.
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This is a six span double track viaduct over the South Calder Water.
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This signal box was opened in 1957 to control access to the new Ravenscraig No 2 Yard, which handled coal and iron ore deliveries. Approach was from the north. The entry was from just south of Calder Viaduct [Carfin]. The box was on the east side of the line opposite the yard turnout.
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This yard, serving the new 1974 Ravenscraig Steel Works iron ore tippler, was on the east side of the Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway). The yard was approached from the north, over the Calder Viaduct [Carfin]. It was to the east of Ravenscraig No 2 Yard which previously handled iron ore and was given over to coal with the opening of No 4.
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This junction is to the north east of Wishaw station. It is where a short connecting line from Shieldmuir North Junction meets the line coming south from Holytown Junction and allows a local passenger train going south from Motherwell to serve Wishaw station.
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This is a two platform station. There is a car park to the north and a modern station building on the northbound platform.
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This was a double track junction south of Wishaw station. It opened with the 1901 Wishaw, Cambusnethan and Coltness Line (Caledonian Railway).
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This was a two platform station. It was north of Overtown [1st] which it replaced (both were open briefly, thus the suffix 'Waterloo' for this station which was located closer to Waterloo than Overtown.
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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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