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This article is about a railway station in Scotland. For Stations in Newton, Massachusetts, see Boston and Albany Railroad.
Newton
Location
Place Cambuslang
Local authority South Lanarkshire
Coordinates 55°49′08″N 4°07′59″W / 55.819, -4.133Coordinates: 55°49′08″N 4°07′59″W / 55.819, -4.133
Operations
Station code NTN
Managed by First ScotRail
Platforms in use 2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 * 0.179 million
2004/05 * 0.283 million
2005/06 * 0.337 million
2006/07 * 0.367 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
Original company Clydesdale Junction Railway
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping LMS
1 June 1849 Original station opened
19 December 1873 Closed; new station opened
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Newton from Office of Rail Regulation statistics.

Newton railway station is a railway station located between the town of Halfway and the village of Newton in South Lanarkshire, near the larger town of Cambuslang in Scotland. The station is managed by First ScotRail on the Argyle and Cathcart Circle Lines.

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History

The original Newton station was opened as part of the Clydesdale Junction Railway on 1 June 1849. The station also served the Hamilton Branch of the Caledonian Railway. It closed on 19 December 1873 and a new station was opened 605m due west on the same day. The station later served trains to and from the Glasgow Central Railway and the Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway.

Station information

Newton station forms part of the Argyle Line 10 km (6¼ miles) south east of Glasgow Central (Low Level) and is also a terminus for the Cathcart Circle (Newton branch) 16 km (10 miles) south east of Glasgow Central (High Level).

Newton is also the location of a junction between the West Coast Main Line and the Argyle/Cathcart Circle routes; it is at this point Argyle Line services leave the WCML en route to the Hamilton Circle. This junction was the location of the Newton rail crash in 1991 when four people were killed and 22 injured.1

Just a few hundred yards west of Newton station, the line from Kirkhill comes alongside the WCML tracks from Cambuslang, and a single lead junction allows trains from the Cambuslang direction to enter the station. To the east of the station, links from the platforms join the main lines as they bear north east towards Uddingston. Services taking this route include WCML and ECML (GNER/Virgin), Bellshill line services and Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The platform lines bear south east towards Blantyre. Services heading this way include those to Larkhall and Coatbridge Central.

Stages of electrification and subsequent layout changes

The slow line platforms were electrified as part of the 1962 Cathcart Circle scheme through to Motherwell via the West Coast Main Line. The fast line platforms were taken out of use at this time.

The next electrification work was part of the 1974 West Coast Main Line electrication project when the Hamilton Circle was electrified. This layout was retained when the Argyle Line opened on 1979.

Following the closure of adjacent (to the south) steel works and East Coast Main Line electrification, the junction layout was revised in 1990/1991 to allow Fast Line trains to pass through at higher speeds. It was as a result of these revisions that single lead junctions from the Kirkhill and Cambuslang directions were installed, that contributed to the Newton rail crash. After several months a double line link was reinstated from Kirkhill.

Services

1979

Following the opening of the Argyle Line there were three Hamilton circle trains in each way per hour (anti-clockwise - Hamilton then Motherwell; clockwise - Bellshill then Motherwell) and four trains per hour via Kirkhill to Glasgow Central (two via Langside and two via Mount Florida. Lanark trains ran non-stop on the adjacent fast lines.

2006/07

On the Argyle Line, there are two Motherwell via Hamilton Central-bound services an hour: one an hour terminating in Motherwell and one continuing to Lanark. There are two per hour towards Glasgow Central and Milngavie (Balloch on Sundays).

On the Cathcart Circle, a half-hourly service operates from Newton every day. One journey per hour goes via Mount Florida and the other via Langside.

  Preceding station     National Rail     Following station  
Cambuslang   First ScotRail

Argyle Line

   Blantyre
Kirkhill   First ScotRail

Cathcart Circle (Newton branch)

   Terminus
Historical railways
Terminus   Caledonian Railway

Glasgow Central Railway

   Carmyle
Line closed;
station open on another route
Kirkhill
Line and station open		   Caledonian Railway

Lanarkshire and Ayrshire Railway

   Terminus
Uddingston
Line and station open		   Caledonian Railway

Clydesdale Junction Railway

   Cambuslang
Line and station open
Blantyre
Line and station open		   Caledonian Railway

Hamilton Branch

   Terminus


References

Notes

  1. ^ "A Report of an Inquiry into the Collision that occurred on 21 July 1991 at Newton Junction". Retrieved on 2008-02-10.

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