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 Motherwell station exterior | |||||
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| Location | Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland | ||||
| Coordinates | 55°47′30″N3°59′39″W / 55.791570°N 3.994208°W /55.791570; -3.994208 | ||||
| Grid reference | NS750571 | ||||
| Owned by | Network Rail | ||||
| Managed by | ScotRail | ||||
| Transit authority | Strathclyde Partnership for Transport | ||||
| Platforms | 4 | ||||
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| Station code | MTH | ||||
| Passengers | |||||
| 2020/21 |  0.174 million | ||||
| Interchange | 17,263 | ||||
| 2021/22 |  0.546 million | ||||
| Interchange | 67,344 | ||||
| 2022/23 | 0.699 million | ||||
| Interchange | 72,468 | ||||
| 2023/24 | 0.918 million | ||||
| Interchange | 90,509 | ||||
| 2024/25 | 1.049 million | ||||
| Interchange | 0.100 million | ||||
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Motherwell railway station serves the town ofMotherwell, inNorth Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on theWest Coast Main Line (WCML) and is served also byArgyle Line trains of theGlasgow suburban railway network. It is the penultimate stop on the WCML northbound beforeGlasgow Central. The station has four through platforms and is adjacent toMotherwell Shopping Centre.
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The first station in Motherwell was opened by theWishaw and Coltness Railway on 8 May 1843 and was located at Orbiston.[2] As Orbiston station was quite some distance from the rapidly expanding Motherwell town centre, the decision was taken by theCaledonian Railway to build a station at 'Lesmahagow Junction', the point where the Motherwell Deviation branch of theCaledonian Railway Main Line met the lines toMossend,Hamilton andLesmahagow. That Motherwell station was opened on 31 July 1885, on a site conveniently in the heart of the town which replaced the original station.
The current station was built byBritish Rail during the 1970s, on the same site, to coincide with the completion of electrification of the West Coast Main Line fromCarlisle to Glasgow, which was completed in 1974.
The station has four through platforms, crossed by two overbridges with the main buildings being above the level of the line between platforms 2 and 3. At platform level between platforms 2 and 3, there is also a ScotRail train crew depot, staff car park and an office of theBritish Transport Police. These are accessible via a gated rampway leading to street level.
Beyond platform 4 are some electrified sidings, used for the stabling of trains overnight. Diagrams are nominally worked so that these units will only stay at Motherwell for one night before returning to their allocated depot.
The station is served by fivetrain operating companies, which provide the following services:
Glasgow Central can be reached via trains from three different platforms going in two different directions. Glasgow is geographically north-west of Motherwell, but trains can depart via the West Coast Main Line in the Motherwell deviation going north, or by the Hamilton Circle going south. The same can also be said for services to Lanark, which is south-east of Motherwell. Trains can depart towards Lanark going south via Shieldmuir or initially north via Holytown; the latter route has not been normally used for timetabled trains since the December 2014 timetable alterations.
During times of disruption such as the closure of the West Coast Main Line betweenUddingston and Law Junction for engineering works, Avanti West Coast and CrossCountry services can be diverted along the Hamilton Circle and Wishaw Deviation. CrossCountry services are also able to divert to Edinburgh via the Shotts line, in which case they use platforms 3 and 4. If all the routes through the station are closed, then a replacement bus service is operated from Motherwell; passengers from Glasgow are advised to travel to Edinburgh fromQueen Street instead of Central station.
| Preceding station |  National Rail | Following station | ||
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| Lockerbie or Carlisle | Avanti West Coast West Coast Main Line | Glasgow Central | ||
| Haymarket | CrossCountry Cross Country Network | Glasgow Central | ||
| Lockerbie | TransPennine Express Manchester/Lancaster-Glasgow | Glasgow Central | ||
| Carstairs or Lockerbie | TransPennine Express Preston-Glasgow | Glasgow Central | ||
| Whifflet or Bellshill or Uddingston | ScotRail Argyle Line | Airbles or Shieldmuir | ||
| Terminus | ScotRail Motherwell to Cumbernauld Line | Whifflet | ||
| Carstairs | Caledonian Sleeper Lowland Caledonian Sleeper | Glasgow Central | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Ferniegair Line and station open (except section between Ferniegair and Ross Junction) | Coalburn Branch Caledonian Railway | Terminus | ||
| Hamilton Central Line and station open | Hamilton Branch Caledonian Railway | Terminus | ||
| Terminus | Clydesdale Junction Railway | Uddingston Line and station open | ||
| Flemington Line open; station closed | Wishaw and Coltness Railway CR Main Line | Mossend Line open; station closed | ||
Open-access operatorGrand Union Trains plans to use the station on aStirling to London Euston service to begin in 2025.[8]
