West Calder railway station
West Calder railway station is a railway station serving West Calder in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 17 miles (28 km) west of Edinburgh Waverley on the way to Glasgow Central. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail. In 2018, accessibility improvements at the station saw the installation of a new footbridge and lifts while the original cast iron footbridge dismantled and removed to the heritage Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway.[4][3]
West Calder  | |
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| Scottish Gaelic: Caladar an Iar[1] | |
.jpg) West Calder station in 2019, following electrification | |
| Location | |
| Place | West Calder |
| Local authority | West Lothian |
| Coordinates | 55.8537°N 3.5671°W |
| Grid reference | NT019633 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | WCL |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
| Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2014/15 |  |
| 2015/16 | |
| 2016/17 |  |
| 2017/18 | |
| 2018/19 | |
| History | |
| 9 July 1869 | Opened[2] |
| Listed status | |
| Listing grade | Category B |
| Entry number | LB19677[3] |
| Added to list | 3 May 1988 |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at West Calder from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
Services
Since the December 2009 timetable change, the station is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one ScotRail all-stops service each hour between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. There is also a semi-fast service between the two cities each hour which calls (this otherwise stops only at Haymarket, Livingston South, Shotts and Bellshill). One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and one starts back from there in the opposite direction.[5]
The timetable featured a limited Sunday service of one train every two hours from this station to Edinburgh until December 2012; at the timetable change that year a two-hourly Sunday service between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley was introduced which remains in operation as of May 2016.[6]
The passenger traction on this line is the Class 156 and Class 158.
| Preceding station | |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Livingston South | Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line |
Addiewell | ||
History
During the Midlothian Campaign of 1878–80 William Ewart Gladstone, leader of Britain's Liberal Party, visited West Calder to give a foreign policy speech. Again on 21 November he returned during the 1885 United Kingdom general election to give another speech.
References
Notes
- Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
- Butt 1995, p. 245.
- Historic Environment Scotland. "West Calder Station, West Calder (LB19677)". Retrieved 15 April 2019.
- "Investment in West Calder gives station accessibility a lift". Network Rail. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
- Table 224 National Rail timetable, May 2016
- GB National Rail Timetable 2013, Table 225
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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Butt, R. V. J. (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.
- 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.