Carfin railway station
Carfin  | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Place | Newarthill |
| Local authority | North Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates | 55°48′27″N 3°57′20″W / 55.8076°N 3.9556°WCoordinates: 55°48′27″N 3°57′20″W / 55.8076°N 3.9556°W |
| Grid reference | NS775588 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CRF |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 81,088 |
| 2011/12 |
 92,730 |
| 2012/13 |
99,378 |
| 2013/14 |
0.105 million |
| 2014/15 |
0.112 million |
| History | |
| Original company | LMS |
| ?[1] | Opened as Carfin Halt |
| 1 December 1930[1] | Closed |
| ?[1] | Reopened |
| 16 May 1983[1] | Renamed |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Carfin from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Carfin railway station is a railway station serving both Carfin and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 14 miles (22 km) southeast of Glasgow Central railway station on the Shotts Line between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
It contains two platforms; one for trains in the direction of Glasgow, and the other for trains to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts.
Like the following stop on the Shotts Line - Holytown - the location of the station is ambiguous, since it is situated between Carfin and Newarthill, although closer to a housing estate which is classed as being in Newarthill.
Services
Trains from Carfin station provides an hourly service to the heart of Glasgow, stopping along the way at Holytown, Bellshill and Uddingston. Cambuslang is only served at peak times (and has been since December 213), whilst there is a single evening train to Motherwell. In the opposite direction there is also an hourly service, calling at all stations except Breich en route to Edinburgh.[2]
Sunday services only ran from Glasgow Central to Shotts for the month prior to Christmas.[3] However, from 9 December 2012 a new two-hourly service was put into operation between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley in both directions.[4] and this still operates as of May 2016.
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleland | Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line |
Holytown | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| OMOA | Cleland and Midcalder Line Caledonian Railway |
Holytown | ||
| Cleland (Old) Line and station closed |
Wishaw and Coltness Railway Caledonian Railway |
connection to Cleland and Midcalder Line | ||
References
Sources
- Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.
- RAILSCOT on Cleland and Midcalder Line
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Carfin railway station. |
- Train times and station information for Carfin railway station from National Rail