Wester Hailes railway station

Wester Hailes
Scottish Gaelic: Hailes an Iar
265px Wester Hailes station in 2012
Location
Place	Wester Hailes
Local authority	Edinburgh
Coordinates
Grid reference	NT198697
Operations
Station code	WTA
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	19,294
2005/06	20,915
2006/07	18,915
2007/08	18,899
2008/09	20,428
2009/10	22,710
2010/11	23,278
2011/12	29,822
2012/13	35,766
History
Key dates	Opened May 1987 (May 1987)
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Wester Hailes from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Wester Hailes railway station is a railway station opened in 1987 by British Rail serving Wester Hailes in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the Edinburgh branch of the West Coast Main Line, but is not served by inter-city services - these are provided via the Shotts Line of the SPT network. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

The staple passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter". As this station is part of the West Coast Main Line to Carstairs, which diverges at Mid Calder Junction, a colourful variety of CrossCountry Class 220 "Voyager", Virgin Trains West Coast Class 221 "Super Voyager", Class 390 "Pendolino" and Virgin Trains East Coast InterCity 225 can also be seen.

Service

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one Abellio ScotRail service every hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One stopper train every hour does not serve this station due to the limited use of trains. One train a day to/from Edinburgh starts/terminates at Motherwell and there is a single a.m peak-hour service to North Berwick that returns in the evening and runs to Glasgow via Carstairs.

On Sundays there is a two-hourly service to Edinburgh & Glasgow (six trains each way).

External links

• Train times and station information for Wester Hailes railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Kingsknowe		Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line		Curriehill
		Abellio ScotRail North Berwick Line