Jerviston Junction [1st]
Location type
JunctionName and dates
Jerviston Junction [1st] (1841-1880)Note: text in square brackets is added for clarity and was not part of the location's name.
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.Opened on the Motherwell New Lines (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This junction was north of Jerviston Viaduct. It was the junction between the Wishaw and Coltness Railway and a colliery branch to a coal pit at Cleekhimin.
The coal pit line was closed by the 1880s. The Jerviston Viaduct route also closed, replaced by the Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway) to the west.
In 1900 a new line south to Coursington Road Junction was laid (Motherwell New Lines (Caledonian Railway). This followed the Cleekhimin pit route but had to follow a slightly more southerly approach from the former Jerviston Junction [1st] due to mining. The new line started from a junction south of Milnwood Junction - a new junction called Jerviston Junction.
The new line was out of use by 1930, the northern portion used to access Clydesdale Steel Works.
It was relaid around 1956 to provide a northern approach to Ravenscraig No 3 Yard.
This approach remained open until the closure of Ravenscraig in 1993.
Tags
Junction
| Nearby stations Holytown Holytown [1st] Mossend Motherwell Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Bridge Motherwell Junction Carfin Bellshill Airbles Flemington Bellshill [NB] Shieldmuir Bothwell Park Halt Ferniegair [2nd] | Braidhurst Viaduct Braidhurst Junction Jerviston Viaduct Jerviston Junction Globe Iron and Steel Works Clydesdale Steel Works Parkneuk Colliery Motherwell Malleable Iron Works Motherwell Wagon Works Motherwell Gas Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
