Ravenscraig No 3 Yard
Location type
SidingsName and dates
Ravenscraig No 3 Yard (1956-1992)Opened on the Ravenscraig Steelworks (David Colville and Sons).
Description
This yard of 9 sidings was located on the west side of the Ravenscraig Steelworks (David Colville and Sons). It was an exchange point between the steelworks and British Rail.
To the north was Merry Street Bridge.
Limestone, from Hardendale Quarry was worked through the yard, coming from Mossend Marshalling Yard to the north, and deposited at Ravenscraig No 1 Yard.
The yard was largely used to store strip coil wagons, empty and loaded. Ravenscraig Strip Mill was alongside, to the east.
Connections on the west side of the yard ran, via reversing spurs and a marshalling yard, to the Dalzell Steelworks (David Colville and Sons) (and formerly the Lanarkshire Steel Works).
The south end of the yard at Ravenscraig No 1 Signal Box connected to Ravenscraig No 1 Yard and a link to Shields Colliery Junction (taken out in the early 1980s and afterwards used to store wagons).
The site of the former yard is now New Craig Road alongside the Ravenscraig Sports Centre.
Tags
Marshalling yard Sidings06/02/2021
| Nearby stations Flemington Motherwell Junction Motherwell [1st] Shieldmuir Motherwell Bridge Motherwell Carfin Airbles Holytown Cleland [1st] Wishaw Wishaw South Holytown [1st] Ferniegair [2nd] Ferniegair [1st] | Ravenscraig Strip Mill Ravenscraig BOS Plant Scrap loading Nether Johnstone Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Coursington Colliery Pit No 3 Coursington Colliery Lanarkshire Steel Works Signal Box Coursington Road Junction Ravenscraig Secondary Steelmaking Unit Coursington Boiler Works Coursington Colliery Pit No 2 Ravenscraig Steel Works Carfin Colliery Pits Nos 1 and 2 Tourist/other Carfin House Ravenscraig No 1 Signal Box |
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