RAILSCOT | Carfin

Station

Newarthill (1834-1880)
Carfin Halt (1927-1970)
Carfin (1970-)

Station code: CRF National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Open on the Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts.

This is a two platform station with a car park on the south side. the car park was formerly the goods yard and featured a large double height loading bank with two faces.

To the east of the station was Cleland Junction where the Cleland and Midcalder Line (Caledonian Railway) met the existing Omoa branch of the older Wishaw and Coltness Railway.

To the north of the station was the Lanarkshire Bridge Works, with sidings served from the west and to the west is Holytown Junction.

Also to the north was a long straggling single track branch to Legbrannock running out from Holytown Junction.

Nearby stations Holytown Cleland [1st] Holytown [1st] Cleland Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Junction Mossend Flemington Motherwell Motherwell Bridge Newhouse Shieldmuir Airbles Chapelhall Wishaw	Lanarkshire Bridge Works Cleland Junction Carfin Chemical Works Holytown Junction Carfin Boiler Works BOC Plant Jenny Lind Composition Works Carfin Brick Works Silverburn Colliery Carfin Colliery Pit No 3 Townhead Colliery Pit No 46 RNSD Carfin Tourist/other Carfin Colliery Signal Box Coal Pit Coal Pit
Location names in dark blue are on the same original line.

/ /1829	Wishaw and Coltness Railway Act receives Royal assent. Line gauge was 4ft 6in and was extended slowly south from Whifflet and Carnbroe Iron Works to the Coltness Iron Works Railway and the Chapel Colliery. A branch was authorised to Newarthill to meet the Omoa Iron Works Railway. Further authorised branches to Rosehall and Law were not built.
31/05/1834	Wishaw and Coltness Railway Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Cleland Branch, Holytown [1st] to Newarthill, opened for minerals. (Not long afterwards a passenger service from Newarthill with the carriage joining Glasgow Townhead trains at Gartsherrie [GGR] was introduced. It ran from Newarthill in the morning and back in the afternoon/evening.)
/ /2018	Wishaw and Coltness Railway Carfin platforms extended.

01/08/2023	Boys left with life-changing injuries after electrocutions on railways in Edinburgh and North Lanarkshire [STV]
26/11/2018	£2m Carfin station investment delivered [Network Rail]
15/05/2009	Man shot in rail station incident [BBC News Article]