Hartwood railway station

Hartwood National Rail
Location
Place Hartwood
Local authority North Lanarkshire
Coordinates 55°48′40″N 3°50′20″W / 55.8112°N 3.8389°WCoordinates: 55°48′40″N 3°50′20″W / 55.8112°N 3.8389°W
Grid reference NS848590
Operations
Station code HTW
Managed by ScotRail
Number of platforms 2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03  10,428
2004/05 Increase 14,421
2005/06 Increase 16,057
2006/07 Increase 17,758
2007/08 Decrease 17,575
2008/09 Increase 20,466
2009/10 Decrease 20,312
2010/11 Decrease 18,826
2011/12 Decrease 16,710
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
Key dates Opened 1 May 1889
Original company Cleland and Midcalder Line
Pre-grouping Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping LMSR
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hartwood from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Hartwood railway station is a railway station serving Hartwood in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the Shotts Line, 19 miles (31 km) east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge. It is managed by ScotRail.

The station was built within the grounds of Hartwood Hospital, 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 to make use of the railway station.

Services

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail stopping service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley and return. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and the first eastbound train of the day begins there.[1] On Sundays, there is now a limited (six trains per day each) way service to both Glasgow and Edinburgh throughout the year, which is supplelented on Sundays on the run up to Christmas by additional hourly trains to/from Glasgow via Whifflet.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Shotts   ScotRail
Shotts Line
  Cleland
Historical railways
Shotts   Cleland and Midcalder Line
Caledonian Railway
  OMOA

References

  1. GB National Rail Timetable 2013-14, Table 225 (Network Rail)

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