Carfin railway station

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Carfin

Location

Place

Carfin

Local authority

North Lanarkshire

Operations

Managed by

First ScotRail

Station code

CRF

Platforms in use

Annual Passenger Usage

2002/03 *

36,175

2004/05 **

55,928

2004/05 **

58,996

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Annual passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Carfin.

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Carfin railway station is a railway station serving both Carfin and Newarthill in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is 22 km (14 miles) south east 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.

[edit] Services

Trains from Carfin station provides an hourly service to the heart of Glasgow, stopping along the way at Holytown, Bellshill, Uddingston and Cambuslang. There is no Sunday service.

Preceding station		Following station
Cleland	First 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

[edit] 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, Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.