Camelon railway station

Camelon Scottish Gaelic: Camalan[1]
Camelon railway station in 2018, following electrification
General information
Location	Camelon, Falkirk Scotland
Coordinates	56.0062°N 3.8182°W / 56.0062; -3.8182
Grid reference	NS867807
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CMO
History
Original company	Railtrack
Key dates
1850	Opened as Camelon
1903	Renamed Falkirk (Camelon)
4 September 1967	Closed
4 October 1994[2]	Reopened as Camelon
Passengers
2019/20	0.163 million
2020/21	24,596
2021/22	94,790
2022/23	0.125 million
2023/24	0.153 million
Notes Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Camelon railway station is a railway station serving the suburb of Camelon in Falkirk, Scotland. It is located on the Edinburgh-Dunblane and Cumbernauld Lines. Train services are provided by ScotRail. The present station was opened in 1994.

History

The original station at Camelon, opened in 1850 and closed on 4 September 1967, was located about 250 yards (230 m) east of the present station. It was called Camelon from its opening until 1903 when it was called Falkirk (Camelon) until its closure. The old station was a simple island platform with a ticket office and waiting room; access was from under the station via a set of stairs that led from a roadbridge.

The modern station has all the trappings of a 21st-century station, with both platforms accessible by wheelchair users, extensive use of CCTV and help points. There is free parking owned by the local authority adjacent to the south platform. This serves the nearby leisure facilities.

Services

From Camelon, direct train services run to Glasgow (via Cumbernauld), Edinburgh and Dunblane, with a change required at Stirling for trains to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen and Inverness, change at Glasgow or Edinburgh for trains to the south of Scotland and to England.

Trains on the Edinburgh – Dunblane route run every half hour and those to Cumbernauld and Glasgow run hourly.^[3] There are no Glasgow trains on Sundays, whilst the Edinburgh to Dunblane route operates hourly each way.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Falkirk Grahamston		ScotRail Edinburgh–Dunblane Line		Larbert
Cumbernauld		ScotRail Cumbernauld Line		Falkirk Grahamston

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt 1995, p. 52.
3. Table 226 & 230 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.

External links

• Video footage of Camelon Station