Shotts Station
Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Shotts Station
Classification Railway Station (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 86061
Site Number NS85NE 79
NGR NS 8744 5982
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/86061
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Shotts (Motherwell)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
(Location cited as NS 873 598). Shotts Station, opened 1869 by the Caledonian Railway. A 2-platform through station, with the main offices on the down platform, in a 1-storey ashlar building on a T-plan incorporating a dwellinghouse. A dormered attic has been added. The up platform building is a single-storey rubble building. The platforms are linked by a lattice-girder footbridge.
J R Hume 1976.
Caledonian Rly: Edinburgh-Glasgow line.
W P Conolly and U A Vincent 1988.
Field Visit (10 January 1995)
NS85NE 79.00 8744 5982
NS85NE 79.01 8731 5979 Signal Box
Shotts Station is depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, 1899, sheet xiii.NW); it remains in use.
(CSW 3441)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 10 January 1995.
MS/731/11
Note (8 June 1998)
This intermediate station on the Edinburgh-Midcalder-Glasgow route (the 'Shotts line') of the former Caledonian Rly was opened by the Cleland and Midcalder Rly on 9 July 1869. It remains in regular use by passenger traffic.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 June 1998.
R V J Butt 1995.
