Hamilton [NBR]
Location type
StationName and dates
Hamilton [NBR] (1878-1952)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway.Description
This was a terminus with two platforms to the north of the competing Caledonian Railway's Hamilton Central. The northern of the two platforms was aligned a little further west. The main platform had a small trainshed enclosing the platform line.alongside the station building. The trainshed was later removed. The station drive ran onto the east end of the island platform. The lines serving each platform had a loop. On the south side of the platform was a carriage siding from which, by reversal, the turntable could be reached.
To the north of the terminal island platform was a goods yard to the north. To the west the line continued past a signal box to Peacock Cross to run north to Bothwell [North British] where routes divided to Shettleston and Whifflet [NB]. The box was on the south side of the line at the station throat. It remained open until line closure in 1952.
The site is now St Mary's Primary School.
Tags
Station terminus08/10/2019
| Nearby stations Hamilton Central Hamilton West Peacock Cross Burnbank Ferniegair [1st] Ferniegair [2nd] Meikle Earnock Halt Chatelherault Ferniegair [3rd] Blantyre Foundry Airbles Quarter Junction Bothwell [North British] Bothwell [CR] Motherwell Bridge | Cadzow Junction Bent Colliery Clyde Steel and Engineering Works Hamilton Gasworks Allanshaw Colliery Townsland Colliery Hamilton Shed Clyde Colliery Colliery Silverton Colliery Hamilton Engine Sheds Junction Tourist/other Hamilton Old Parish Church Hamilton Palace Hamilton Mausoleum Barncluith Colliery Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Books
 A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain: Scotland - The Lowlands and the Borders v. 6 (Regional railway history series) |  Forgotten Railways: Scotland |
