Dalserf railway station

[7] Passenger trains proceeded as far north as Ferniegair[1] from December 1866, and via Motherwell to Glasgow Buchanan Street from April 1868.

Horse-drawn buses connected Ferniegair to Hamilton West prior to the October 1876 opening to passenger traffic of the new rail link offering onward travel to Glasgow Southside.

[9] Each southeast-bound train to Ayr Road, comprising up to 8 carriages, was then split for the separate routes.

[13] 1867: When the driver of a coal train, slowly passing the station, slipped on stepping to the ground, the engine wheels cut him in two.

[14] 1874: While shunting on the Cornsilloch Colliery siding about 100 yards (91 m) from the station, the passenger train from Stonehouse ran over two sleeping trespassers.

[16] 1878: While loading ballast stone, a jib crane fell on a worker, who later died of his injuries.

[21] 1891: During shunting from the Milburn Chemical Works, a worker slipped between the wagons and died of internal injuries an hour later.