Overtown [1st]
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StationName and dates
Overtown [1st] (1843-1881)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.Description
This was a two platform station. It was just to the north of Overtown itself. (Much closer than Overtown [2nd], to the north, which replaced this station and was closer to Waterloo.)
The station was on the west side of Main Street. There was a dock line on the south side of the station, approached from the west. A small building was located by the road bridge at the east of the station, on the south side of the line.
Nothing remains of the station.
Overton Station Colliery was to the north west on a private line to the Coltness Iron Works. Overton was a previous spelling of Overtown.
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Overtown RoadExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
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| Nearby stations Overtown [2nd] Wishaw South Law Junction Wishaw Cambusnethan Stirling Road Dalserf Morningside [CR] Morningside [1st] Morningside [NBR] Newmains Shieldmuir Larkhall East Merryton Carluke | Overton Station Colliery Pather Colliery Coal Pit Garriongill Junction Overtown Colliery Overton Colliery Pather Iron and Steel Works Coal Pit Law Colliery Pit No 1 Coke Oven Shawfield Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Coal Pit Coltness Collieries Tourist/other Pather Signal Box Morningside Incline Signal Box |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
