Airdrie railway station

Airdrie Scottish Gaelic: An t-Àrd Ruigh[1]
Airdrie railway station, looking west
General information
Location	Airdrie, North Lanarkshire Scotland
Coordinates	55.8640°N 3.9826°W / 55.8640; -3.9826
Grid reference	NS760652
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	ADR
History
Original company	Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Key dates
11 August 1862[2]	Station opened as Airdrie South
3 March 1952[2]	Station renamed Airdrie
Passengers
2019/20	1.009 million
2020/21	0.121 million
2021/22	0.477 million
2022/23	0.633 million
2023/24	0.775 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Airdrie railway station is a railway station serving the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The station is managed by 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. The station became a terminus in January 1956, when passenger services to Bathgate over the former B&CR were withdrawn - freight over this line continued until final closure & abandonment in 1982.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 (see below).

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

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 1989 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 the 1989 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,^[3] 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

The Sunday service is:

• 2tph - Helensburgh Central to/from Edinburgh Waverley

2016

The daytime & Sunday service remains unchanged in the May 2016 timetable, but the evening service now runs to Balloch westbound rather than Milngavie (as well as to Helensburgh), whilst eastbound the Edinburgh service is half-hourly.^[4]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Drumgelloch		ScotRail North Clyde Line		Coatdyke
	Historical railways
Clarkston Line and Station open		Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway North British Railway		Coatdyke Line and Station open
Drumgelloch (1989) Station closed; Line open		First ScotRail North Clyde Line		Coatdyke

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995)
3. "National Rail Timetable 226; December 2010" (PDF). Retrieved 17 November 2010.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
4. Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

• Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.
• Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M.
• Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• "Station layout as of 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2009.