Bellshill railway station

{{Short description|Railway station in North Lanarkshire, Scotland}}{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}

{{Infobox station

| name = Bellshill

| symbol_location = gb

| symbol = rail

| image = Bellshill railway station in 2008.jpg

| borough = Bellshill, North Lanarkshire

| country = Scotland

| coordinates = {{coord|55.8171|-4.0243|type:railwaystation_region:GB_scale:10000|display=inline,title}}

| grid_name = Grid reference

| grid_position = {{gbmapscaled|NS732600|25|NS732600}}

| manager = ScotRail

| platforms = 2

| code = BLH

| original = CR (Cleland and Midcalder Line)

| pregroup = Caledonian Railway

| postgroup = LMS

| years = 1 May 1879

| events = OpenedButt (1995), p. 32

| mpassengers =

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2019/20 |passengers={{decrease}} 0.784 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{decrease}} 45,364}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2020/21 |passengers={{decrease}} 0.147 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{decrease}} 4,080}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2021/22 |passengers={{increase}} 0.381 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 19,796}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2022/23 |passengers={{increase}} 0.511 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 31,838}}

{{Rail pass box |pass_year=2023/24 |passengers={{increase}} 0.621 million |interchange={{pad|1em}}{{increase}} 70,586}}

| footnotes = Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

}}

Bellshill railway station is a railway station in the town of Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by ScotRail and served by Argyle Line and Shotts Line services. The station is adjacent to Bellshill Main Street, on Hamilton Road, and was opened by the Caledonian Railway as part of the Cleland and Midcalder Line on 1 May 1879. West of the station, the Glasgow, Bothwell, Hamilton and Coatbridge Railway crossed with a second station in the town to the north west - this ceased to carry passengers back in 1951.

The line through the station was electrified as part of the 1974 West Coast Main Line project.Nock (1974)

File:Bellshill (ex-Caledonian Railway) Station 1787269 2ae1eed9.jpg Although it is situated east of the Shotts Line's junction with the WCML south of {{rws|Uddingston}}, electric trains can reach Motherwell using a chord line to the route from {{rws|Coatbridge Central}} and Mossend which passes beneath the Shotts route east of the station (these lines being wired to allow electric access to the yard at Mossend and to allow goods trains to avoid the busy Motherwell area).