West Calder railway station

West Calder National Rail

West Calder station in 2012
Location
Place West Calder
Local authority West Lothian
Coordinates 55°51′13″N 3°34′02″W / 55.8537°N 3.5671°W / 55.8537; -3.5671Coordinates: 55°51′13″N 3°34′02″W / 55.8537°N 3.5671°W / 55.8537; -3.5671
Grid reference NT019633
Operations
Station code WCL
Managed by Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05 Increase 99,864
2005/06 Decrease 99,213
2006/07 Decrease 96,541
2007/08 Decrease 94,404
2008/09 Increase 100,938
2009/10 Decrease 97,396
2010/11 Increase 109,252
2011/12 Increase 113,484
2012/13 Increase 118,164
History
9 July 1869 Opened[1]
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at West Calder from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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West Calder railway station is a railway station serving West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 17 miles (28 km) west of Edinburgh Waverley on the way to Glasgow Central. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

Services

Since the December 2009 timetable change, the station is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail all stops service each hour between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. There is also a semi-fast service between the two cities each hour. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and one starts back from there in the opposite direction. The timetable featured a limited Sunday service of one train every two hours from this station to Edinburgh.

As of December 2012 there is a two-hourly Sunday service between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley.[2]

The passenger traction on this line is the Class 156 and Class 158.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Livingston South   Abellio ScotRail
Shotts Line
  Addiewell

History

During the Midlothian Campaign of 1878-80 William Ewart Gladstone, leader of Britain's Liberal Party visited West Calder to give a foreign policy speech. Again on the 21st of November he returned during the United Kingdom general election, 1885 to give another speech

Misc.

3d model of West Calder Railway station

References

Notes

  1. Butt 1995, p. 245.
  2. GB National Rail Timetable 2013, Table 225

Sources

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