Shieldmuir
Location type
StationName and dates
Shieldmuir (1990-)Station code: SDM National Rail ScotRail
Where: North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Opened on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway.
Open on the Glasgow to Lanark.
Description
This is a minimal modern two platform station. The platforms are linked by a footbridge which predates the station. To the east is Shieldmuir Junction where the connection to Wishaw station leaves the line through Motherwell and the west end of the Royal Mail Scottish Distribution Centre loop connects to the main line.
Formerly this was a complicated location with many lines. The closure of the last of these, a loop on the south side serving Flemington Goods to the west and scrap sidings at the Inshaw Works (for the Ravenscraig Steel Works) left land vacant for the new station. To the west was Shields Colliery Junction, a little further away than Shieldmuir Junction.
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StationExternal links
NLS Collection OS map of 1892-1914NLS Collection OS map of 1944-67
NLS Map
NLS Map
| Nearby stations Flemington Wishaw Wishaw South Airbles Motherwell Junction Motherwell [1st] Motherwell Bridge Motherwell Ferniegair [3rd] Chatelherault Ferniegair [2nd] Ferniegair [1st] Merryton Carfin Larkhall East | Central Wagon Works Shieldmuir North Junction Glencairn Iron and Steel Works Blitz Scrap Yard Shields Colliery Nos 5 and 9 Shields Colliery Etna Iron and Steel Works Shieldmuir Yard Shields Colliery Junction Craigneuk Works Muirhouse Foundry and Engineering Works Whitegates Engineering Works Muirhouse Pit (Coal) Royal Mail Scottish Distribution Centre Inshaw Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
