Linlithgow

Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha[1]
National Rail
General information
LocationLinlithgow, West Lothian
Scotland
Coordinates55°58′35″N 3°35′45″W / 55.9764°N 3.5957°W / 55.9764; -3.5957
Grid referenceNT005770
Managed byScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLIN
History
Original companyEdinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Pre-groupingNorth British Railway
Post-groupingLondon and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
21 February 1842Opened[2]
Passengers
2018/19Increase 1.199 million
2019/20Decrease 1.131 million
2020/21Decrease 0.120 million
2021/22Increase 0.519 million
2022/23Increase 0.798 million
Listed Building – Category C(S)
Designated16 March 1992
Reference no.LB37472[3]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

Linlithgow railway station is a railway station serving the town of Linlithgow in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line and is also served by ScotRail services from Edinburgh Waverley to Dunblane, and the daily train between Glasgow Queen Street and the Fife Circle Line.

History

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Linlithgow station was opened by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on 21 February 1842.[2] It once featured an east-facing bay platform and a small goods yard, where the carpark is today. The station also had a railway hotel; The Star and Garter Hotel which was involved in a devastating fire in October 2010.[4]

Photographs of the station taken in 1845 are believed to be the oldest photographic images of a railway subject anywhere in the world.[5]

The building is Category C listed by Historic Scotland due to it being one of the only two surviving (with Croy) stations of the original Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway.[3]

Services

The station is served by trains on the main Edinburgh to Glasgow via Falkirk High main line and via the Cumbernauld Line, and the Edinburgh - Stirling - Dunblane routes, with half-hourly calls each way on all routes on Mondays to Saturdays (hourly to Dunblane on Sundays). Services via Cumbernauld terminate at Falkirk Grahamston in the evenings. The one return weekday Kirkcaldy to Glasgow commuter service also stops here in each direction.[6]

On Sundays, the Edinburgh - Glasgow service is half hourly and the Dunblane to Edinburgh one is hourly.

Preceding station National Rail National Rail Following station
Haymarket   ScotRail
to Glasgow-Edinburgh via Falkirk line 		  Polmont
Edinburgh Park   ScotRail
Glasgow-Edinburgh via Cumbernauld
   Polmont
  ScotRail
Edinburgh to Dunblane Line
  
Dalmeny   ScotRail
to Fife Circle Line
   Polmont
  Historical railways  
Philpstoun
Line open, station closed 		  North British Railway
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 		  Manuel High Level
Line open, station closed
A Class 170 working an Edinburgh to Glasgow service. Taken prior to electrification works

Electrification

As part of the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme, the line through the station has been electrified and the platforms extended.[7]

Linlithgow station in 2018, following electrification of the line

References

  1. ^ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. ^ a b Butt (1995), p. 143
  3. ^ a b Historic Environment Scotland. "LINLITHGOW RAILWAY STATION (LB37472)". Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  4. ^ "Flames engulf historic town hotel". BBC News. 15 October 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Table 226, 228 & 230 National Rail timetable, December 2018
  7. ^ "EGIP - Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme". www.egip.info. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

Sources

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