Airdrie railway station


Airdrie railway station is a railway station serving the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by Abellio ScotRail and is served by trains on the North Clyde Line, east of Glasgow Queen Street.

History

Opened by the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway and absorbed into the North British Railway, it became part of the London and North Eastern Railway during the Grouping of 1923. The station then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948. British Railways then ran the station for Strathclyde PTE, and continued to do so as ScotRail when sectorisation was introduced, until the privatisation of British Rail. The station became a terminus in January 1956, when passenger services to Bathgate over the former B&CR were withdrawn - freight over this line continued until final closure & abandonment in 1982. The line from Glasgow was subsequently wired as part of the North Clyde electrification scheme in 1960. Strathclyde PTE & BR reopened a short portion of the line eastwards to a new station at Drumgelloch in 1989 and full reinstatement of the line to Bathgate followed in 2010.
As part of the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link reopening, the station has been refurbished, including the reinstatement of the second through platform with a capability of holding 9 carriages opposite the current Platform 2, which has been extended and a large car park facility.

Services

2008

The station was served by half-hourly trains from to and return, which used Platform 2.
Platform 1 was used by trains from Airdrie to, providing a 15-minute frequency towards Glasgow Queen Street, Monday to Saturday daytimes.
In addition to this, there were some peak time express services to. These called at Coatdyke, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Blairhill before running fast to High Street then at all stations to Milngavie.
Evenings and Sundays, the half-hourly Drumgelloch to Helensburgh Central service operated.

May 2010 to December 2010

Following closure of the original Drumgelloch station as part of the Airdrie to Bathgate project, a half-hourly bus service operated to and from Drumgelloch station to connect with services arriving from Glasgow and Helensburgh.

From 12 December 2010

Following the opening of the line between Airdrie and Bathgate, the basic off-peak daytime service is:
The evening service is:
The Sunday service is:
The daytime & Sunday service remains unchanged in the May 2016 timetable, but the evening service now runs to Balloch westbound rather than Milngavie, whilst eastbound the Edinburgh service is half-hourly.