Newton

Newton

Station 103

Rudy visited Newton on
Tuesday, 1st March 2022
departing on the 14:19 train to Glasgow Central.

Newton Station

Newton is a busy railway station in South Lanarkshire on the Newton Branch of the Cathcart Circle line. The first Newton station was opened in 1849 and the current site 600 metres further west has been in use since 1873. If you like red brick boxes as buildings then this is the station for you!

With many routes merging at Newton Junction the station has been switched in and out of the West Coast Main Line during different electrification works since the 1960s. Eventually the two northern platforms were removed and fast trains are able to bypass the station at higher speed on separate tracks now outside the modern station.

There are eight railway stations in the UK with the word “Newton” in their name including Rudy’s one hundredth station Newton-On-Ayr. The most likely confusion for national journey planners though is “Newtown” in Powys, Wales so often the station name is shown as “Newton (Lanark)” in systems covering the whole UK.

Newton is less than 20 minutes by train from Glasgow Central on trains towards Motherwell. There is a modern lift giving step-free access to both platforms.

There are toilets available but only when the ticket office is open.

Newton Railway Maps

The railway geography at Newton is somewhat complicated with trains running on at least two different routes to Glasgow Central high level and others heading for the low level platforms. Add the West Coast Main Line running past and we guess Newton station is a great place for photographing trains!

Of course despite feeling complex the railway here was “rationalised” in the late 20th Century and was much more complicated before the Glasgow Central Railway north to the Westburn Viaduct and the sprawling Hallside Steelworks to the south were shut!