Linlithgow railway station

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 Abellio ScotRail services from Edinburgh Waverley to Dunblane, and the daily train between Glasgow Queen Street and the Fife Circle Line.

Linlithgow Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha[1]
Location	Linlithgow, West Lothian Scotland
Coordinates	55.9764°N 3.5957°W
Grid reference	NT005770
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	LIN
History
Original company	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
21 February 1842	Opened[2]
Passengers
2015/16	1.133 million
2016/17	1.157 million
2017/18	1.186 million
2018/19	1.199 million
2019/20	1.131 million
Listed Building – Category C(S)
Designated	16 March 1992
Reference no.	LB37472[3]
Notes
Passenger statistics from the Office of Rail and Road

History

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.

A Class 170 working an Edinburgh to Glasgow service

Linlithgow station in 2018, following electrification of the line

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt (1995), p. 143
3. 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. http://www.westlothian.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=3867&p=0
6. Table 226, 228 & 230 National Rail timetable, December 2018

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.
• 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.
• Jowett, Alan (2000). Jowett's Nationalised Railway Atlas (1st ed.). Penryn, Cornwall: Atlantic Transport Publishers. ISBN 978-0-906899-99-1. OCLC 228266687.
• RAILSCOT on Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
• Linlithgow station on navigable OS map

External links

• Video footage of Linlithgow Railway Station