Archaeology Notes

Event ID 666697

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS66SE 128 69377 60889

Uddingston Station [NAT

OS 1:2500 map, 1965.

(Location cited as NS 694 609). Uddingston Station: built 1853-4 by the Caledonian Rly. A two-platform through station, with the main offices on the down [S] platform in a two-storey ashlar building with a single-storey wing. There is a small wooden shelter on the up [N] platform.

J R Hume 1976.

This intermediate station on the Motherwell-Glasgow (Caledonian Rly) portion of West Coast Main Line was opened (by the Clydesdale Junction Rly) on 1 June 1849. It was renamed Uddingston Central Station (by British Railways) on 3 March 1952, and subsequently reverted to Uddingston (Caledonian) Station.

The station remains in regular use by passenger traffic.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 December 2005.

R V J Butt 1995.