Bellshill
Location type
StationName and dates
Bellshill (1879-)Station code: BLH National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway).
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts.
Open on the Glasgow to Lanark.
Description
This is a two platform station. The station is elevated above street level and has a footbridge.
Until the late 1980s the original Caledonian Railway style buildings survived. The main building was on the westbound platform.
A small goods yard (now the car park) existed to the west, on the south side of the line and approached from the west alongside a branch which served Bellshill Colliery Pit No 3. There was a signal box (1879) west of the station on the north side of the line opposite the point where the goods sidings left the main line. The box was replaced with a ground frame in 1960.
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Bellshill [NB] Bothwell Park Halt Mossend Holytown [1st] Fallside Bothwell [CR] Holytown Uddingston East Bothwell [North British] Motherwell Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Bridge Carnbroe Motherwell Junction Uddingston [1st] | Milnwood Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Bellshill Colliery Pit No 3 Bellshill South Signal Box Hattonrig Colliery Pits Nos 3 and 4 East Parkhead Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Mossend Iron and Steel Works Rosehall Colliery Pit No 7 Mossend Steel Works Mossend West Junction Tip Orbiston Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Douglas Park Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Rosehall Colliery Pit No 13 Tourist/other Douglas Park Signal Box Orbiston Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1899 | Mossend West to Mossend South Curve (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation for the line from Uddingston via Bellshill to Motherwell. This is the short curve from Mossend West Junction (west) to Milnwood Junction (south) at Mossend. |
| /11/2011 | Uddingston Junction to Fullwood Junction (Caledonian Railway) Car park under construction at Bellshill. |
