Disused railway lines and closed stations in North Lanarkshire

172 miles of disused railway
48 closed stations
25 stations open today
56 named lost lines

North Lanarkshire has 172 miles of disused railway and 48 closed stations, against 25 stations still open today. More stations have closed here than remain: 1.9 lost for every one still served. The longest lost line is the Slamannan Branch, with 7.3 miles of its route inside North Lanarkshire.

See North Lanarkshire’s lost railways on the map

The map opens on the county with the disused lines and closed stations drawn over today’s network. Tap any closed station for its history, or any grey line for its name.

What is left of it

The 172 miles of lost railway in North Lanarkshire break down as 120 miles with the track lifted and the trackbed still traceable, 49 miles built over or ploughed out, with little or no trace left and 3.3 miles with track still in place but no trains. These are OpenStreetMap’s own distinctions, made by the people who surveyed each stretch, so a line can appear under more than one state along its length.

Lost railway lines in North Lanarkshire

56 named lines with disused track in the county, longest stretch first. The mileage is the part inside North Lanarkshire; a line crossing the border is counted on both sides.

Line	Miles in county
Slamannan Branch	7.3
Morningside Branch	7.3
Cleland & Morningside Branch	6.8
Blackhall Junction to West Craigs via Shotts Line	6.2
North Monkland Branch	5.2
Bairds Mineral Railway	5.2
Airdrie and Newhouse Line	4.9
Bedlay Colliery Branch	3.6
Kilsyth and Bonnybridge Branch	3.3
Bellshill Branch	2.6
Dykehead Branch	2.6
Gartness Branch	2.4
Kelvin Valley Line	2.4
Cambusnethan Branch	2.2
Rosehall Railway	2.2
Calderbank Colliery Branch	2.1
Thankerton Branch	2.0
Longriggend Colliery	1.9
Rosehall Junction to BSC Imperial Works Branch	1.9
Fortissat Branch	1.9
Old Canal Tramway	1.9
Canal Feeder Tramway	1.6
Brownieside Branch	1.6
Barblues Colliery	1.4
Tannochside Branch	1.4
Castlehill Branch	1.4
Coltness Colliery	1.3
Hamilton Branch	1.2
Garriongill Colliery	1.1
Palacecraig Branch	1.0
Bedlay Loop	0.9
Shawhead Branch	0.9
Fortissat Colliery	0.9
Hassockrigg Branch	0.9
Coltness Branch	0.8
Hattonrig Colliery	0.7
Brownieside Colliery	0.7
Gartverrie Fireclay Works	0.7
North Monkland Branch Mineral Railway	0.7
Southrigg Colliery	0.7

And 16 shorter stretches: Airdrie Branch, Auchingray Coal Pit, Bellsdyke Branch, Airdrie North Branch, Calderbank Ironworks Branch, Imperial Tube Works Branch, Rosehall North Branch, Benhar Colliery, Bedlay Colliery, Gunnie Yard Branch, Stonecraigs Collieries, Calderhead Colliery, Greystonelee Colliery, Mossend West Fork, Portrigg Colliery and Thrushbush Branch.

Closed railway stations in North Lanarkshire

All 48 closed and former stations in North Lanarkshire, A to Z. Each name opens the map on the station; the Wikipedia link, where there is one, has its history.

Stations still open in North Lanarkshire

25 stations in North Lanarkshire still have a train service. The busiest are Croy (1.4 million a year), Motherwell (1.0 million a year), Airdrie (809,690 a year), Bellshill (643,576 a year) and Coatbridge Sunnyside (472,270 a year). Every one has its own page, with the stations you can reach from it directly and how often the trains run: see the A to Z of stations.

Lost railways nearby

Falkirk, Glasgow, East Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, South Lanarkshire, Stirling, East Ayrshire and Fife.

About these figures

The disused lines are the stretches OpenStreetMap records as disused, abandoned, razed or dismantled railway, measured segment by segment and given to the county each segment lies in. The closed stations are Wikidata’s record of British railway stations no longer in service, kept where they are not within a few hundred metres of a station still open. The boundary is today’s council area, from the Office for National Statistics (Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024). Historic county lines were different, and a closed station a mile over the border is on the neighbouring page.

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