Motherwell MPD
Location type
Loco shedNames and dates
Motherwell Shed (1866-1967)Motherwell MPD (1967-2007)
Motherwell MPD (2013-)
Opened on the Motherwell Deviation Line (Caledonian Railway).
Description
This is a double ended shed with ten roads located to the west of the Motherwell Deviation Line and just north of Lesmahagow Junction. Approach is from the north and south.
British Railways assigned the code 66B to the shed and sub shed Morningside Shed.
After 1967 the shed became a diesel depot.
Closure came after a fire in 2007. It was reopened by Direct Rail Services around 2013.
Tags
Shed04/08/2019
| Nearby stations Motherwell Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Bridge Motherwell Junction Airbles Holytown Holytown [1st] Mossend Flemington Bellshill Carfin Bellshill [NB] Ferniegair [2nd] Ferniegair [1st] Shieldmuir | Motherwell Wagon Works Parkneuk Steel Works Parkneuk Colliery No 1 and 2 Motherwell Malleable Iron Works Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Works Globe Iron and Steel Works Braidhurst Junction Parkneuk Colliery Engineering Works Lesmahagow Junction Braidhurst Colliery Metropolitan-Vickers [Motherwell] Jerviston Viaduct Tourist/other Motherwell Workshops Signal Box Logans Road Level Crossing |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
Chronology Dates
| 17/11/1858 | Motherwell Deviation (Caledonian Railway) The Caledonian Railway buys land in Motherwell for a new shed (Motherwell Shed) to augment its locomotive sheds at South Side and Gartsherrie Shed [GGR] which were suffering from high light engine mileages. The Parkneuk Iron Works and Motherwell Iron and Steel Works were by the shed. |
| / /1865 | Motherwell Deviation (Caledonian Railway) Authorisation for purchase of the land for Motherwell Shed. (Authorisation for expansion or retrospective permission.) |
| / /1866 | Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway Gartsherrie Shed [GGR] closed on the opening of Motherwell Shed. |
| / /1915 | Motherwell Deviation (Caledonian Railway) The Motherwell Shed turntable is out of use due to mine works in the immediate area. |
| 28/08/2001 | Motherwell Deviation (Caledonian Railway) Fire severely damages Motherwell MPD, used by England, Welsh and Scottish Railway. A Railtrack owned MPV and locomotives 08534, 08882, 47758, 47726 and 37427 were damaged. |
