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Railway station in South Lanarkshire, Scotland

Uddingston railway station serves the small town of Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. ScotRail provides passenger services to this station on the Argyle Line and Shotts Line.

The first Uddingston station, on the east side of the Glasgow Road bridge, was opened by the Clydesdale Junction Railway on 1 June 1849. Prior to the 2014 Whifflet Line electrification, Argyle Line services provided through links to Central Low Level via and then onwards to via northbound and to Motherwell southbound (alternate services continued to ).

The building on Station Road, housing various public facilities, leads to Platform 1 (Glasgow bound trains). A footbridge over the double track connects to Platform 2 (Motherwell/Edinburgh bound trains) and the car park.

1862: A worker at the coal depot was fatally crushed between some trucks and a passing train. 1867: On a westbound collision with the arch of the Glasgow Road bridge, a transported van rolled back into the following carriage, injuring five passengers, two seriously. 1892: A coal train struck a 12 year old boy on the Uddingston Viaduct about to the west. After severing his right leg and left foot, he died within hours. 1900: A passenger train bisected the upper and lower parts of a man walking about to the west. 1901: A passing train sliced in two a man on the rail bridge. 1902: During fog, a passing engine inflicted massive head injuries to a man by the Haughhead Colliery signal box, about to the west. 1903: A passenger carriage sideswiped a bridge worker. Months later, an eastbound passenger train struck a man. After the front coupling hooked the mangled body, his clothing and limbs became scattered from the colliery signal box to
1906: A westbound passenger train hauling three fruit vans at the rear, uncoupled one at A brake failure caused the van to soon roll onto the main line, where it pursued and smashed into the rear of the train, which had inadvertently stopped west of Uddingston station. Eleven passengers received cuts and bruises, and the rolling stock incurred significant damage. 1908: A light engine hit a young man causing near fatal injuries. 1911: Near the Viewpark Colliery signal box, immediately east of Uddingston Junction, a westbound passenger train ran down two surfacemen. One died and the other sustained leg injuries and facial wounds. 1914: A porter seized a passenger, who was boarding a moving train. In the attempt to drag him back, both men dropped between the train and platform. The passenger sustained fractured ribs and the porter minor injuries. Later that year, a passing train fatally mangled a woman about to the west. The following month, a passing westbound express fatally injured a retired army doctor who fell from the platform. 1920: A passing train decapitated and mutilated a man west of the rail bridge. 1932: Falling between the carriage and the platform, a woman sustained two compound fractures below the knee. 1934: A westbound express fatally injured an LMS employee supervising repairs to the rail bridge. 1936: A passenger who dropped through a carriage window onto the platform, while his train bypassed the station, incurred minor injuries. 1957: On a 12 coach Mid Day Scot, three of the five derailed units sustained serious damage. On board, one person was killed and five were injured. Restoring the of damaged track took 24 hours. 2013: An individual experienced leg injuries on being struck by a train. 2014: A cyclist became trapped under a train after riding off the platform edge.

A goods yard existed to the north east of Glasgow Rd that included the siding for John Gray & Co.'s Uddingston Iron Works. The Viewpark Colliery siding, that stretched west northwest, and slightly more east southeast, from near the present day southern end of Spindlehowe Rd, was accessed initially from that location (just east of the Uddingston Junction),