Airdrie railway station

Airdrie
Scottish Gaelic: An Ard-Ruigh
265px Airdrie railway station, looking west
Location
Place	Airdrie
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates
Grid reference	NS760652
Operations
Station code	ADR
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	3
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.802 million
2004/05	0.910 million
2005/06	0.952 million
2006/07	0.994 million
2007/08	0.988 million
2008/09	1.067 million
2009/10	1.055 million
2010/11	1.191 million
2011/12	1.158 million
2012/13	1.154 million
2013/14	1.080 million
History
Original company	Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
11 August 1862	Station opened as Airdrie South
3 March 1952	Station renamed Airdrie
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Airdrie from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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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, 11 miles (18 km) 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.

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 (see link in sources below).

Services

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A Class 334 leaving for Helensburgh

2008

The station was served by half hourly trains from Drumgelloch (1989) to Helensburgh Central and return, which used Platform 2.

Platform 1 was used by trains from Airdrie to Balloch, 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 Milngavie. 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 (which included the construction of a new station to the east of the 1989 station), 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:

• 2tph - Helensburgh Central to/from Edinburgh Waverley
• 2tph - Milngavie to/from Edinburgh Waverley
• 2tph - Airdrie to/from Balloch

The evening service is:

• 2tph - Helensburgh Central to/from Edinburgh Waverley
• 2tph - Milngavie to/from Edinburgh Waverley

The Sunday service is:

• 2tph - Helensburgh Central to/from Edinburgh Waverley

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Drumgelloch		Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line		Coatdyke
	Historical railways
Clarkston Line and Station open		Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway North British Railway		Coatdyke Line and Station open