Clydesdale yard, Holytown, Bellshill
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| D400 and D423 run light engine from Motherwell depot to Glasgow Central to work the return leg of the 50 farewell railtour, seen here aproaching Bellshill station. |
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| A pair of class 20's pass Clydesdale yard on their way to Motherwell Depot. The tracks in the foreground lead to Ravenscraig No1 yard and was the route for incoming lime trains and outgoing strip coil trains took.. Clydesdale Yard was very busy with a regular shuttle to the Imperial Works in Airdrie and other trip workings to Mossend. |
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| Loking South from the same vantage point sees the pair of class 20's drawing up to the signal controlling access to the depot. A class 25 can be seen leaving the depot in the distance. |
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| Metro-Cammel class101 DMU no. 101306 calls at Bellshill on an Edinburgh to Glasgow via Shotts service |
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| Another view of 101306 leaving Bellshill shows the severity of the Bellshill Bank. The unit is descending the short stretch of 1 in 77 which then becomes a two miles descent at 1 in 70. Hence the reason that the ore trains went via Coatbridge |
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| A class 107 leaves Holytown station with an Edinburgh service while a class 90 hauled freight nears the end of its journey to Mossend. |
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| Chance meeting of 26023 heading south from Mossend as a class 20 runs "engine and van" towards Holytown. |
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| A pair of class 87 electrics negotiate Mossend East Junction. From left to right the tracks go to Motherwell via Mossend South Junction, Bellshill and Mossend Yard |
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| 47210 "Blue Circle Cement" again, accelerating through Bellshill, appropriately hauling cement hoppers. |