Holytown railway station
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The station was opened to assist the coal mining industry; the mines are now long gone.
Around 2003, some services to Lanark on the Argyle Line began running via Holytown (by means of the Mossend South to East curve) then down to Wishaw, creating two routes (one via Holytown and the other via the already existing Shieldmuir). This created a twice-hourly service at Holytown to/from Glasgow and a regular link to/from Motherwell.
Services
2008 onward
Monday to Saturdays on the Shotts Line there is an hourly service westbound to Glasgow via Uddingston and eastbound to Edinburgh. Sunday services only run from Glasgow Central via Whifflet to Shotts for the month prior to Christmas.[1]
However, from December 2012 a new two hourly service has operated between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh.[2]
On the Argyle Line there is an hourly service northbound to Glasgow Central and beyond (to Milngavie) and southbound to Lanark via Motherwell with no Sunday service.
December 2014
Following a recast of the Argyle Line timetable in the wake of the Whifflet Line electrification, there is no longer a regular daytime service to Motherwell, Milngavie via Anderston or Lanark. Only the hourly (two-hourly Sunday) Shotts line stopping services now call here - one of these in each direction (06:00 Motherwell to Edinburgh Waverley ) now provides the statutory minimum service from Motherwell over the Mossend South Jcn to East Jcn curve. A single weekday peak service from Template:Rws to Template:Rws in the morning, returning from Anderston to Carstairs in the evening fulfils the same function for the line from Template:Rws.[3]
| Preceding station | National Rail National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Carfin | style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | ScotRail Glasgow Central - Edinburgh Waverley |
style="background:#Template:ScotRail colour; color:inherit; border-left: 0px none; border-right: 0px none; border-top:1px #aaa solid; border-bottom:0px none;" | | Bellshill or Motherwell |
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| Carfin | Cleland and Midcalder Line | Bellshill | ||
| Wishaw Central | Script error: No such module "If empty".<div style="height:8px; background-color:#Script error: No such module "If empty".; color:inherit; border:none; margin:0 -5px -2px;"> | Motherwell | ||
| Script error: No such module "If empty".<div style="height:8px; background-color:#Script error: No such module "If empty".; color:inherit; border:none; margin:0 -5px -2px;"> | Mossend Line open; station closed | |||
References
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- ↑ National Rail Timetable, December 2008-May 2009 Ed, Table 225
- ↑ GB National Rail Timetable 225, Edinburgh - Shotts, Carstairs, Motherwell and Glasgow Central 20 May - 7 December 2013 Template:WebarchiveNetwork Rail; Retrieved 2013-09-24
- ↑ GB NRT December 2015 - May 2016, Tables 224 & 225 (Network Rail)
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- RAILSCOT on Caledonian Railway
- RAILSCOT on Cleland and Midcalder Line
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- Railway stations in North Lanarkshire
- Railway stations served by ScotRail
- SPT railway stations
- Former Caledonian Railway stations
- Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1880