Network Rail engineers will work around-the-clock over the next two weekends to upgrade a Lanarkshire junction for the first time since its installation more than 50 years ago.
The work, costing £2.2m, on the Whifflet South junction, located between Coatbridge Freight Terminal and Mossend/Eurocentral near Motherwell on the West Coast Mainline, will see the railway between Coatbridge and Motherwell closed this weekend, August 20-21, and next weekend, August 27-28.
No services will run through the junction during those weekends and ScotRail will operate replacement bus services between Motherwell and Rutherglen via Whifflet/Carmyle, and between Motherwell and Cumbernauld.
