OLD Lanark - Glasgow service

[overthewater]

Before the overhaul of the lanarkshire network I was wonder how one train pair hour managed to do the turn?

* 1ph Glasgow - Hamilton - Motherwell - Holytown - Wishy - Lanark
* 1ph Glasgow - Hamilton - Motherwell - Shieldmuir - Wishy - Lanark

Its that second one, did the driver have to chance direction and walk down the platform at Motherwell to complete the journey?

 

[Mag_seven]

Before the overhaul of the lanarkshire network I was wonder how one train pair hour managed to do the turn?

* 1ph Glasgow - Hamilton - Motherwell - Holytown - Wishy - Lanark
* 1ph Glasgow - Hamilton - Motherwell - Shieldmuir - Wishy - Lanark

Its that second one, did the driver have to chance direction and walk down the platform at Motherwell to complete the journey?

The second service pattern is not correct - it should read:

1ph Glasgow - Bellshill - Motherwell - Shieldmuir - Wishy - Lanark

i.e. no reversal required at Motherwell.

 

[overthewater]

Cheers for that, but all Lanark trains now operate via Bellshill now don't there? I never thought there would be much demand for Lanark - Hamilton.

 

[156478]

Before the overhaul of the lanarkshire network I was wonder how one train pair hour managed to do the turn?

* 1ph Glasgow - Hamilton - Motherwell - Holytown - Wishy - Lanark
* 1ph Glasgow - Hamilton - Motherwell - Shieldmuir - Wishy - Lanark

Its that second one, did the driver have to chance direction and walk down the platform at Motherwell to complete the journey?

I remember it as
1 x Glasgow Central Low Level-Hamilton Circle-Motherwell-Holytown-Wishaw-Lanark (this was the additional)
1 x Glasgow Central Low Level-Bellshill-Motherwell-Shieldmuir-Wishaw -Lanark (this was the long standing one)

It was only one train an hour that ran via Hamilton to Lanark and that was via Holytown and that was a long way for a short cut for all concerned and not overly popular due to comprehensive bus services on parallel routes.

It was quietly dropped when the Lanarks all ran via Bellshill to Glasgow Central High Level rather than via Glasgow Central Low Level, Partick and Beyond (to great outrage at the time- people going Lanark to Glasgow had a slightly quicker journey time, those going to Rutherglen, Bridgeton, Argyle Street, Anderston, Partick, Hyndland and beyond have to change trains at Cambuslang) and Holytown returned back to the old days to an Hourly Edinburgh-Shotts-Glasgow stopper and no more (no one has yet seemed to notice/care!)

 

[route101]

I remember it as
1 x Glasgow Central Low Level-Hamilton Circle-Motherwell-Holytown-Wishaw-Lanark (this was the additional)
1 x Glasgow Central Low Level-Bellshill-Motherwell-Shieldmuir-Wishaw -Lanark (this was the long standing one)

It was only one train an hour that ran via Hamilton to Lanark and that was via Holytown and that was a long way for a short cut for all concerned and not overly popular due to comprehensive bus services on parallel routes.

It was quietly dropped when the Lanarks all ran via Bellshill to Glasgow Central High Level rather than via Glasgow Central Low Level, Partick and Beyond (to great outrage at the time- people going Lanark to Glasgow had a slightly quicker journey time, those going to Rutherglen, Bridgeton, Argyle Street, Anderston, Partick, Hyndland and beyond have to change trains at Cambuslang) and Holytown returned back to the old days to an Hourly Edinburgh-Shotts-Glasgow stopper and no more (no one has yet seemed to notice/care!)

Forgot about Holytown being dropped i still thought it had a service .
Hamilton now has through service to Cumbernauld in a similar way that it used to with Lanark.