Holytown railway station

Holytown
Location
Place	New Stevenston
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates	55°48′45″N 3°58′25″W / 55.8126°N 3.9736°W / 55.8126; -3.9736Coordinates: 55°48′45″N 3°58′25″W / 55.8126°N 3.9736°W / 55.8126; -3.9736
Grid reference	NS764594
Operations
Station code	HLY
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	72,031
2005/06	69,749
2006/07	73,149
2007/08	79,865
2008/09	101,312
2009/10	103,246
2010/11	107,848
2011/12	0.113 million
2012/13	0.128 million
2013/14	0.140 million
2014/15	0.141 million
History
1 June 1880[1]	Opened as Carfin
1 January 1882	Renamed Carfin Junction
1 June 1882[2]	Renamed Holytown Junction
1 October 1901	Renamed Holytown
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Holytown from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Holytown railway station is a railway station serving both Holytown and New Stevenston in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line, 13 miles (21 km) south east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley and is also on the Argyle Line. It was opened in 1880 (as 'Carfin') at the same time as the Wishaw Deviation Line from Law Junction, though the line on which it actually stands (the Wishaw and Coltness Railway) is considerably older.

Despite its name, the station is some 550 yards (500 m) from the edge of Holytown; instead it is in New Stevenston.

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.^[3]

However, from December 2012 a new two hourly service has operated between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh.^[4]

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 & 17.22 return) now provides the statutory minimum service to/from Motherwell over the Mossend South Jcn to East Jcn curve. A single weekday peak service from Carstairs to Dalmuir in the morning, returning from Anderston to Carstairs in the evening fulfils the same function for the line from Wishaw.^[5]

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Carfin		Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line		Bellshill or Motherwell
	Historical railways
Carfin		Cleland and Midcalder Line		Bellshill
Wishaw Central		Caledonian Railway Main Line		Motherwell
		Caledonian Railway Main Line		Mossend Line open; station closed

References

Sources

• 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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199. 
• RAILSCOT on Caledonian Railway
• RAILSCOT on Cleland and Midcalder Line