Motherwell railway station
Motherwell 
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| Scottish Gaelic: Tobar na Màthar | |
Motherwell railway station at Platforms 1 and 2. Trains running on the West Coast Main Line stop here.
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| Location | |
| Place | Motherwell |
| Local authority | North Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates | 55°47′30″N 3°59′39″W / 55.791570°N 3.994208°WCoordinates: 55°47′30″N 3°59′39″W / 55.791570°N 3.994208°W |
| Grid reference | NS750571 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | MTH |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Owned by | Network Rail |
| Number of platforms | 4 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2011/12 |
 1.301 million |
| 2012/13 |
 1.293 million |
| 2013/14 |
1.135 million |
| 2014/15 |
1.226 million |
| 2015/16 |
1.258 million |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Motherwell from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
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Motherwell railway station serves Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It lies on the West Coast Main Line (WCML), and is served also by Argyle Line trains of the Glasgow suburban railway network. It is the penultimate stop on the northbound WCML before Glasgow. There are four platforms of various length in use at Motherwell. The station is located next to the town's main shopping arcade, Motherwell Shopping Centre.
The current Motherwell station was built to replace an earlier station which was opened by the Caledonian Railway at nearby Orbiston. As Orbiston station was quite some distance from the rapidly expanding Motherwell town centre, the decision was taken to build a station at 'Lesmahagow Junction', the point where the Motherwell Deviation branch of the Caledonian Railway Main Line met the lines to Mossend, Hamilton and Lesmahagow. This new site was conveniently in the heart of the town.
The current station was built by British Rail during the 1970s on the site of the original to coincide with the electrification of the West Coast Main Line. It has four through platforms, crossed by two overbridges with the main buildings being above the level of the line between Platforms 2 and 3. At platform level between Platforms 2 and 3 there is also a Abellio ScotRail traincrew depot, staff car park and an office of the British Transport Police. These are accessible via a gated rampway leading to street level.
Beyond Platform 4 are some electrified sidings used for the stabling of trains overnight. Diagrams are nominally worked so that these units will only stay at Motherwell for one night before returning to their allocated depot.
Local services departing to and from the station are provided by Abellio ScotRail and the majority of northbound services serve Glasgow Central (either terminating at the High Level station or passing through the Low Level station en route to Dalmuir or Milngavie), whilst southbound Argyle Line services terminate at Lanark or Carstairs.
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