Townhill Signal Box
Location type
Name and dates
Townhill Signal Box (-1908)Opened on the Hamilton and Strathaven Railway.
Description
This signal box was located between Udston Box (to the north, a box south of High Blantyre) and Earnock Junction (to the south, a box north of Meikle Earnock). There was a loading bank served by sidings north and south off a short loop on the west side of the line. The box was on the south of Wellhall Road, on the east side of the line.
There were several farms nearby with variations on the name Townhill. Earnock House was to the east.
The box closed in 1908 and line in 1953.
The northern part of the site has been built over with housing. Going south the trackbed is now a footpath.
Tags
Signal box footpath12/08/2019
| Nearby stations Meikle Earnock Halt Burnbank Peacock Cross Hamilton West High Blantyre Hamilton [NBR] Hamilton Central Quarter Junction Blantyre Foundry Blantyre Calderwood Glen Platform Bothwell [North British] Quarter Bothwell [CR] Ferniegair [1st] | Udston Signal Box Earnock Junction Udston Colliery Earnock Colliery Pits Nos 1, 2 and 3 Earnock Colliery Pits Nos 1, 2 and 3 Earnock Quarry Blantyre Colliery Pit No 3 Burnbank Signal Box Stewartfield Quarry Wellhall Colliery Hartfield Quarry Priestfield Colliery No 1 Birdsfield Tile Works Fairhill Colliery Birdsfield Wagon Works |
| Location names in dark blue are on the same original line. | |
