Addiewell railway station

Coordinates: 55°50′36″N 3°36′23″W / 55.8434°N 3.6064°W / 55.8434; -3.6064
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Addiewell

Scottish Gaelic: Tobar Adaidh[1]
National Rail
Addiewell railway station, looking west
General information
LocationAddiewell, West Lothian
Scotland
Coordinates55°50′36″N 3°36′23″W / 55.8434°N 3.6064°W / 55.8434; -3.6064
Grid referenceNS995623
Managed byScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeADW
Key dates
1 July 1882Station opens
Passengers
2018/19Decrease 17,640
2019/20Decrease 17,242
2020/21Decrease 1,762
2021/22Increase 11,226
2022/23Increase 14,566
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Addiewell railway station is a railway station serving Addiewell in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts.

History[edit]

Opened by the Caledonian Railway in July 1882 (several years after the line itself), it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.

When sectorisation was introduced, the station was served by ScotRail until the Privatisation of British Rail.

Service[edit]

Monday to Saturday sees an hourly service to Edinburgh and Glasgow serving most intermediate stations, this drops to 2-hourly in the evening. There is one service a day to and from Motherwell.[2]

Sundays see a 2-hourly service in both directions, not calling at Breich or Cambuslang.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
West Calder   ScotRail
Shotts Line
  Breich

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ Table 224 National Rail timetable, May 2016

References[edit]

  • Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
  • 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. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
  • Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
  • 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. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Station on navigable O.S. map

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