Drumgelloch railway station

Drumgelloch National Rail
Scottish Gaelic: Druim Gailleach

Drumgelloch railway station looking towards Airdrie
Location
Place Airdrie
Local authority North Lanarkshire
Coordinates 55°52′01″N 3°57′00″W / 55.867°N 3.9501°WCoordinates: 55°52′01″N 3°57′00″W / 55.867°N 3.9501°W
Grid reference NS781655
Operations
Station code DRU
Managed by ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
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Annual rail passenger usage*
2010/11 58,550
2011/12 Increase 0.269 million
2012/13 Increase 0.307 million
History
Original company Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Pre-grouping North British Railway
Post-grouping LNER
11 August 1862 Opened as Clarkston[1]
8 June 1953 Renamed Clarkston (Lanarks)[1]
9 January 1956 Closed[1]
6 March 2011 Reopened as Drumgelloch[2]
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Drumgelloch from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Drumgelloch railway station is a railway station serving the east of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located 600 yards (550 m) east[3] of the 1989 station on the former Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway, on the site of the former Clarkston railway station. The station previously closed in 1956.[1]

History

The first station on the site was opened on 11 August 1862 by the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway, and was named Clarkston.[1] It was renamed Clarkston (Lanarks) on 8 June 1953 by British Railways, who closed it on 9 January 1956.[1]

In 2005, the Scottish Executive announced that the closed section of line between the 1989 Drumgelloch station and Bathgate would be rebuilt as a double-tracked electrified railway termed the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link. This resulted in the closure of the 1989 Drumgelloch station to be replaced by the new station 550m to the east on the site of the former Clarkston station. When the 1989 station opened, although in the Clarkston area of it took the name Drumgelloch to avoid confusion with the Clarkston station on the East Kilbride Line.[4]

It connects the Edinburgh to Bathgate Line at Bathgate to the North Clyde Line at Airdrie and opens up a fourth rail link between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

The 2010 station is provided with a 336 space car park including 18 spaces for less able travellers and a dedicated area for cyclists.[3][5]

The station did not open for passenger traffic when the line opened on 12 December 2010 and passengers wishing to start or complete their journey at Drumgelloch initially had to transfer to a replacement bus service at Airdrie.[6] The station finally re-opened on 6 March 2011.[2]

Services

2010/2011 (from 12 December 2010)

Following the opening of the line between Airdrie and Bathgate,[7] the basic off-peak daytime service is:

The evening service is:

The Sunday service is:

This is subject to sufficient Class 380 being introduced into service to allow the cascade of the Class 334 from the Ayrshire Coast Line to operate the new service.[5]

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Caldercruix   ScotRail
North Clyde Line
   Airdrie
Historical railways
Plains
Line open; Station closed		   Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
North British Railway
   Airdrie
Line and Station open

References

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Butt 1995, p. 62
  2. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Relocated Drumgelloch Station" (PDF).
  3. ↑ Chris, Milner (1 December 2010). "The new line A to B". The Railway Magazine (Mortons Media Ltd) 157 (1,317 (January 2011)): 25–28. Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  4. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Airdrie to Bathgate - New Drumgelloch Station" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "STATION UPDATE: ARMADALE, CALDERCRUIX & DRUMGELLOCH". Network Rail: Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link Project website. 13 January 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
  6. ↑ "National Rail Timetable 226; December 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2010.

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