The Coalburn Branch was a

branch line A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line. Industrial spur An industr ...

constructed by the

Caledonian Railway The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company. It was formed in the early 19th century with the objective of forming a link between English railways and Glasgow. It progressively extended its network and reached Edinburgh an ...

from

Lesmahagow railway station Lesmahagow railway station served the town of Lesmahagow, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, from 1866 to 1965 on the Blackwood Junction to Alton Heights Junction Line. History The station was opened on 1 July 1905 by the Caledonian Railway. On ...

to Bankend railway station. It was the main branch of the

Lesmahagow Railway The Lesmahagow Railway, south of Glasgow in Scotland, was developed by a company known as The Lesmahagow Branches (later known as The Lesmahagow Guarantee Company). It was not an independent company in the usual sense. It was a financially indepe ...

History

Coalburn Branch (1856-1968)

*1 December 1866,

Motherwell Motherwell ( sco, Mitherwall, gd, Tobar na Màthar) is a town and former burgh in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, south east of Glasgow. It has a population of around 32,120. Historically in the parish of Dalziel and part of Lana ...

, Ferniegair (Chatelherault), Larkhall (Larkhall East), Ayr Road (Dalserf), Stonehouse, Cots Castle, Bents (Netherburn),

Blackwood Blackwood may refer to: Botany * African blackwood ('' Dalbergia melanoxylon''), a timber tree of Africa * African blackwood (''Erythrophleum africanum''), ('' Peltophorum africanum'') also Rhodesian blackwood, trees from Africa * Australian bla ...

, Auchenheath and Brocketsbrae railway stations open. * 1 May 1868, Bents is renamed to Netherburn. * 1 June 1869, Brocketsbrae is renamed to Lesmahagow. * 1 October 1876, Tillietudlem opens. * 2 October 1876, Ferniegair and Motherwell are re-located. * 1 November 1891,

Coalburn Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. It is located near the villages of Auchlochan, Bankend and Braehead. History The opencast mine that opened in the village in the late 1980s became the biggest mine in Europe by the earl ...

opens. * January 1893, Alton Heights opens. * 1 July 1903, Ayr Road is renamed to Dalserf. * 1 June 1905, Lesmahagow is renamed Brocketsbrae. * 1 July 1905, Stonehouse, Cots Castle and Blackwood closes; Stonehouse opens. * 1 June 1906, Larkhall is renamed to Larkhall East. * 1 January 1917, Ferniegair and Motherwell closes. * 1926, Alton Heights closes. * July 1926, Bankend closes. * January 1941, Larkhall East, Dalserf, Netherburn, Tillietudlem, Auchenheath and Brocketsbrae close. * May 1945, Dalserf, Netherburn, Tillietudlem, Auchenheath and Brocketsbrae re-open. * July 1945, Larkhall East re-opens. * 10 September 1951, Larkhall East closes. * 1 October 1951, Dalserf, Netherburn, Tillietudlem, Auchenheath and Brocketsbrae closes. * 4 October 1965, Auchlochan, Coalburn and Stonehouse close.

Present day

* 1974, British Rail build a new

Motherwell railway station , symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Motherwell Railway Station - geograph.org.uk - 699863.jpg , caption = Motherwell railway station at Platforms 1 and 2. Trains running on the West Co ...

. * 15 May 1989, Airbles railway station opens. * December 2005, Chatelherault railway station reopens.

Gallery

File:Track of old railway - geograph.org.uk - 261023.jpg, Tracks of old railway,

File:Blackwood (Lanark) Station site of 1822843 bae19047.jpg, Site of Blackwood railway station File:Brocketsbrae rail station 1915400 1ad8d67f.jpg, Site of

Brocketsbrae railway station Brocketsbrae railway station served the hamlet of Brocketsbrae, South Lanarkshire gd, Siorrachd Lannraig a Deas , image_skyline = , image_flag = , image_shield = Arms_slanarkshire.jpg , image_blank_ ...

File:Remains of Tillietudlem railway station - geograph.org.uk - 392589.jpg, Remains of Tillietudlem railway station File:Motherwell railway station geograph-2171184-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg,

File:Chatelherault train station.jpg, Chatelherault railway station

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