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 Airdrie railway station, looking west | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Location | Airdrie,North Lanarkshire Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 55°51′50″N3°58′57″W / 55.8640°N 3.9826°W /55.8640; -3.9826 | ||||
| Grid reference | NS760652 | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Platforms | 3 | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | ADR | ||||
| History | |||||
| Original company | Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway | ||||
| Pre-grouping | North British Railway | ||||
| Key dates | |||||
| 11 August 1862[2] | Station opened asAirdrie South | ||||
| 3 March 1952[2] | Station renamedAirdrie | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  0.121 million | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.477 million | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.633 million | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.775 million | ||||
| 2024/25 | 0.810 million | ||||
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Airdrie railway station is arailway station serving the town ofAirdrie, North Lanarkshire,Scotland. The station is managed byScotRail and is served by trains on theNorth Clyde Line, 11 miles (18 km) east ofGlasgow Queen Street.
Opened by theBathgate and Coatbridge Railway and absorbed into theNorth British Railway, it became part of theLondon and North Eastern Railway during theGrouping of 1923. The station then passed on to theScottish Region of British Railways onnationalisation in 1948. British Railways then ran the station forStrathclyde PTE, and continued to do so asScotRail whensectorisation was introduced, until theprivatisation of British Rail. The station became a terminus in January 1956, when passenger services to Bathgate over the former B&CR were withdrawn - freight over this line continued until final closure & abandonment in 1982. The line from Glasgow was subsequently wired as part of the North Clyde electrification scheme in 1960. Strathclyde PTE & BR reopened a short portion of the line eastwards to a new station at Drumgelloch in 1989 and full reinstatement of the line to Bathgate followed in 2010 (see below).
As part of theAirdrie-Bathgate rail link reopening, the station has been refurbished, including the reinstatement of the second through platform with a capability of holding 9 carriages opposite the current Platform 2, which has been extended and a large car park facility (see link in sources below).
The station was served by half-hourly trains fromDrumgelloch (1989) toHelensburgh Central and return, which used Platform 2.
Platform 1 was used by trains from Airdrie toBalloch, providing a 15-minute frequency towards Glasgow Queen Street, Monday to Saturday daytimes.
In addition to this, there were some peak time express services toMilngavie. These called at Coatdyke, Coatbridge Sunnyside and Blairhill before running fast toHigh Street then at all stations to Milngavie.
Evenings and Sundays, the half-hourly Drumgelloch to Helensburgh Central service operated.
Following closure of the 1989 Drumgelloch station as part of the Airdrie to Bathgate project (which included the construction of a new station to the east of the 1989 station), a half-hourly bus service operated to and from the 1989 Drumgelloch station to connect with services arriving from Glasgow and Helensburgh.
Following the opening of the line between Airdrie and Bathgate,[3] the basic off-peak daytime service is:
The evening service is:
The Sunday service is:
The daytime & Sunday service remains unchanged in the May 2016 timetable, but the evening service now runs to Balloch westbound rather than Milngavie (as well as to Helensburgh), whilst eastbound the Edinburgh service is half-hourly.[4]
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Drumgelloch | ScotRail North Clyde Line | Coatdyke | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Clarkston Line and Station open | Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway North British Railway | Coatdyke Line and Station open | ||
| Drumgelloch (1989) Station closed; Line open | First ScotRail North Clyde Line | Coatdyke | ||
