Airdrie railway station
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 Airdrie railway station, looking west | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Airdrie,North Lanarkshire Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 55°51′50″N3°58′57″W/ 55.8640°N 3.9826°W | ||||
| Grid reference | NS760652 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | ADR | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 11 August 1862[2] | Station opened asAirdrie South | ||||
| 3 March 1952[2] | Station renamedAirdrie | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2018/19 |  1.098 million | ||||
| 2019/20 | 1.009 million | ||||
| 2020/21 | 0.121 million | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.477 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.633 million | ||||
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Airdrie railway stationis arailway stationserving the town ofAirdrie, North Lanarkshire,Scotland.The station is managed byScotRailand is served by trains on theNorth Clyde Line,11 miles (18 km) east ofGlasgow Queen Street.
History[edit]
Opened by theBathgate and Coatbridge Railwayand absorbed into theNorth British Railway,it became part of theLondon and North Eastern Railwayduring theGroupingof 1923. The station then passed on to theScottish Region of British Railwaysonnationalisationin 1948. British Railways then ran the station forStrathclyde PTE,and continued to do so asScotRailwhensectorisationwas introduced, until theprivatisation of British Rail.The station became a terminus in January 1956, when passenger services to Bathgate over the former B&CR were withdrawn - freight over this line continued until final closure & abandonment in 1982. The line from Glasgow was subsequently wired as part of the North Clyde electrification scheme in 1960. Strathclyde PTE & BR reopened a short portion of the line eastwards to a new station at Drumgelloch in 1989 and full reinstatement of the line to Bathgate followed in 2010 (see below).
As part of theAirdrie-Bathgate rail linkreopening, the station has been refurbished, including the reinstatement of the second through platform with a capability of holding 9 carriages opposite the current Platform 2, which has been extended and a large car park facility (see link in sources below).
Services[edit]
2008[edit]
The station was served by half-hourly trains fromDrumgelloch (1989)toHelensburgh Centraland return, which used Platform 2.
Platform 1 was used by trains from Airdrie toBalloch,providing a 15-minute frequency towards Glasgow Queen Street, Monday to Saturday daytimes.
In addition to this, there were some peak time express services toMilngavie.These called at Coatdyke, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Blairhill before running fast toHigh Streetthen at all stations to Milngavie.
Evenings and Sundays, the half-hourly Drumgelloch to Helensburgh Central service operated.
May 2010 to December 2010[edit]
Following closure of the 1989 Drumgelloch station as part of the Airdrie to Bathgate project (which included the construction of a new station to the east of the 1989 station), a half-hourly bus service operated to and from the 1989 Drumgelloch station to connect with services arriving from Glasgow and Helensburgh.
From 12 December 2010[edit]
Following the opening of the line between Airdrie and Bathgate,[3]the basic off-peak daytime service is:
- 2tph -Helensburgh Centralto/fromEdinburgh Waverley
- 2tph -Milngavieto/fromEdinburgh Waverley
- 2tph - Airdrie to/fromBalloch
The evening service is:
- 2tph -Helensburgh Centralto/fromEdinburgh Waverley
The Sunday service is:
- 2tph -Helensburgh Centralto/fromEdinburgh Waverley
2016[edit]
The daytime & Sunday service remains unchanged in the May 2016 timetable, but the evening service now runs to Balloch westbound rather than Milngavie (as well as to Helensburgh), whilst eastbound the Edinburgh service is half-hourly.[4]
| Preceding station |  National Rail
|
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drumgelloch | ScotRail North Clyde Line |
Coatdyke | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Clarkston Line and Station open |
Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway North British Railway |
Coatdyke Line and Station open | ||
| Drumgelloch (1989) Station closed; Line open |
First ScotRail North Clyde Line |
Coatdyke | ||
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^Brailsford 2017,Gaelic/English Station Index.
- ^abButt (1995)
- ^"National Rail Timetable 226; December 2010"(PDF).Retrieved17 November2010.[permanent dead link]
- ^Table 226National Railtimetable, May 2016
Sources[edit]
- Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987].Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man(6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps.ISBN978-0-9549866-9-8.
- Butt, R. V. J.(October 1995).The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present(1st ed.).Sparkford:Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN978-1-85260-508-7.OCLC60251199.OL11956311M.
- Jowett, Alan (March 1989).Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day(1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd.ISBN978-1-85260-086-0.OCLC22311137.
- Jowett, Alan (2000).Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas(1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers.ISBN978-0-906899-99-1.OCLC228266687.
- "Station layout as of 2010"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 18 July 2011.Retrieved21 September2009.