Holytown Junction
Location type
JunctionNames and dates
Carfin Junction (1880-1882)Holytown Junction (1882-)
Station code: National Rail
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Opened on the Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway).
Description
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.
It opened in 1880 with a signal box on the south side of the junction.
Going east the line divided into four which from north to south were
- a reversing spur on the north side of the line gave access to Holytown Colliery Pit No 5.
- the route east to Midcalder Junction
- the route south east to Law Junction
- a Carfin Colliery line to Carfin Brick Works, Loganlea Colliery Pit No 3 and Carfin Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2
The junction name was probably renamed from Carfin to Holytown in 1882 when the nearby station changed its name.
The box was replaced, the new building being on the north side of the line at the junction. The lines now ran to
- Lanarkshire Bridge Works
- Midcalder Junction
- Law Junction
- Carfin Industrial Estate
The box closed in 1973, taken over by the Motherwell Signalling Centre.
Tags
JunctionExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
04/08/2019
| Nearby stations Holytown Carfin Holytown [1st] Mossend Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Junction Motherwell Motherwell Bridge Flemington Cleland [1st] Cleland Airbles Newhouse Shieldmuir Bellshill | Carfin Chemical Works Carfin Boiler Works Carfin Brick Works Lanarkshire Bridge Works RNSD Carfin Carfin Colliery Pit No 3 Cleland Junction BOC Plant Jenny Lind Composition Works Cleekhimin Coal Pit Carfin Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Merry Street Bridge Tourist/other Coal Pit Coal Pit Carfin Colliery Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| / /1873 | Wishaw Deviation (Caledonian Railway) Line authorised from Carfin Junction to Law Junction. |
