Hartwood railway station

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Hartwood

Location

Place

Hartwood

Local authority

North Lanarkshire

Operations

Managed by

First ScotRail

Station code

HTW

Platforms in use

Annual Passenger Usage

2002/03 *

10,428

2004/05 **

14,421

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Hartwood railway station is a railway station serving Hartwood in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge. It is managed by First ScotRail.

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one First ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell. There is no sunday service at this station.

The staple passenger traction on this line is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter", although Virgin Trains Class 220 "Voyager" units can be seen during engineering works on the main line via Carstairs.

The line is heavily used by freight, mainly coal from Hunterston in Ayrshire, to Longannet power station in Fife.

The station was built within the grounds of a major Psychiatric hospital, which used to provide the bulk of the passenger traffic. This hospital was closed in 1999, with its services transferred to the nearby Hartwoodhill Hospital, but this is too far away, with no public transport available, to make use of the train station.

Due to the very low usage of the station, it is one of those earmarked to be skipped by new express services planned for the line in order to speed up the service from Glasgow to Edinburgh.