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Xenophon PCDGS

Xenophon PCDGS

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DerekC said:
Motherwell (1st station - 1845 to 1885)
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That station you describe above, was actually opened on 8th May 1843, was that of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway and was located at Orbiston, a district of Bellshill in North Lanarkshire, and as such is always shown as being a station of that railway on this quiz and as such not a station on the Caledonian Railway main line.

The first station on the Caledonian Railway main line that was built by that company was on 31st July 1885 at Lesmahagow Junction which is the point where the Motherwell Deviation Branch of the Caledonian Railway main line met the lines to and from Mossend, Hamilton and Lesmahagow. On the same site during the electrification of the West Coast Main Line, British Rail constructed a much improved station with four through platforms and two overbridges.
 
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Xenophon PCDGS said:
That station you describe above, was actually opened on 8th May 1843, was that of the Wishaw and Coltness Railway and was located at Obliston and as such is always shown as being a station of that railway on this quiz and as such not a station on the Caledonian Railway main line.

The first station on the Caledonian Railway main line that was built by that company was on 31st July 1885 at Lesmahagow Junction which is the point where the Motherwell Deviation Branch of the Caledonian Railway main line met the lines to and from Mossend, Hamilton and Lesmahagow. On the same site during the electrification of the West Coast Main Line, British Rail constructed a much improved station with four through platforms and two overbridges.
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Hmm - pity because the evidence seems very strong. The OS 1:2500 map for 1861 (i.e. 12 years after the W&CR was taken over by the Caledonian) shows a station called "Motherwell Junction" about 500 yards south of the modern station, at the junction of the old W&CR route with the CR main line. I assume this is the W&CR station still in use by the CR. By 1898, as you say, Motherwell station had moved to its modern location. I saw the Wikipedia reference to Obliston but I can't find out where that was - there doesn't seem to be a place of that name anywhere in Scotland that I can find. It seems this area could do with some further research.
 
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Hmm - pity because the evidence seems very strong. The OS 1:2500 map for 1861 (i.e. 12 years after the W&CR was taken over by the Caledonian) shows a station called "Motherwell Junction" about 500 yards south of the modern station, at the junction of the old W&CR route with the CR main line. I assume this is the W&CR station still in use by the CR. By 1898, as you say, Motherwell station had moved to its modern location. I saw the Wikipedia reference to Obliston but I can't find out where that was - there doesn't seem to be a place of that name anywhere in Scotland that I can find. It seems this area could do with some further research.
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Just to make life even more confusing, there was also Motherwell Bridge station on the Caledonian Railway Coalburn Branch Line in the adjacent area that was opened on 1st April 1868 and closed on 31st July 1885.
 
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Wikipedia suggests that the station was originally a mile further south but I can't find evidence for that in other sources. OS 1:2500 for 1859 (before the construction of the Solway Junction Railway) shows the station in the same location as in 1899.
 
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