Holytown railway station

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Holytown

Location

Place

New Stevenston

Local authority

North Lanarkshire

Operations

Managed by

First ScotRail

Station code

HLY

Platforms in use

Annual Passenger Usage

2002/03 *

53,020

2004/05 **

72,031

2004/05 **

69,749

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

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Holytown railway station is a railway station serving both Holytown and New Stevenston in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 21 km (13 miles) south east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley and is also on the Argyle Line.

Despite its name, the station is located some 500 metres from the start of Holytown; instead it is in New Stevenston.

The station was opened to assist the coal mining industry, opened and running since 1869, but is now used mostly for general public more than anything else.

Around 1994, some services to Lanark on the Argyle Line began running via Holytown then down to Wishaw, creating two routes (one via Holytown and the other via the already existing Shieldmuir). This created a twice-hourly service at Holytown from Glasgow.

1 Services
- 1.1 2008
2 Sources
3 External links

[edit] Services

[edit] 2008

Monday to Saturdays on the Shotts Line there is an hourly service westbound to Glasgow via Uddingston and eastbound to Edinburgh with no Sunday service.

On the Argyle Line there is an hourly service northbound to Glasgow Central and beyond (to Milngavie) and southbound to Lanark via Motherwell with no Sunday service.

Preceding station		Following station
Carfin	First ScotRail Shotts Line	Bellshill or Motherwell
Wishaw	First ScotRail Argyle Line	Motherwell
Historical Railways
Carfin	Cleland and Midcalder Line	Bellshill
Wishaw Central	Caledonian Railway Main Line	Motherwell
Wishaw Central	Caledonian Railway Main Line	Mossend Line open; station closed

[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.