Shawfair railway station

Shawfair railway station is on the Borders Railway, a railway line between Edinburgh and Tweedbank, just beyond Galashiels, in Scotland. The station serves the new development of Shawfair, Midlothian, to the south-east of Edinburgh. At this point the line does not follow the old Waverley Route via Millerhill, the trackbed of which was severed by the construction of the Edinburgh City Bypass in the 1980s.

Shawfair
Location
Place	Edinburgh
Local authority	Midlothian
Coordinates	55.9180°N 3.0905°W / 55.9180; -3.0905
Grid reference	NT318699
Operations
Station code	SFI
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2015/16	13,202[note 1]
2016/17	22,236
2017/18	31,588
2018/19	41,138
History
6 September 2015	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shawfair from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

At this stop there is a half-hourly service Monday–Saturday and hourly service on Sunday to Edinburgh and Tweedbank. The construction work was undertaken by BAM Nuttall opening on 6 September 2015.[1]

Notes

1. The statistics only reflect six months of operation

References

1. "Borders to Edinburgh railway opens as longest line in UK in a century". BBC News. 6 September 2015.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Newcraighall		Abellio ScotRail Borders Railway		Eskbank