Blackridge railway station

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Blackridge

Scottish Gaelic: An Druim Dubh [1]
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Blackridge Station March 2011.jpg
Blackridge station, looking west towards Caldercruix
General information
Location Blackridge, West Lothian
Scotland
Coordinates 55°53′04″N3°45′01″W / 55.8844°N 3.7502°W / 55.8844; -3.7502
Grid reference NS895667
Managed by ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeBKR
Classification DfT category F2
Key dates
12 December 2010Opened [2]
Passengers
2018/19Increase2.svg 59,780

The original station in this locale was called Westcraigs, built by the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway. It was also the site of a junction with the Wilsontown, Morningside and Coltness Railway. Opened on 11 August 1862, [3] in some timetables the station was called Westcraigs for Harthill. [3] The station closed on 9 January 1956.

Opening

Platform 2 on the day of opening Blackcraigs railway station.JPG
Platform 2 on the day of opening

Blackridge was originally excluded from the Airdrie–Bathgate rail link project, but after a three-year campaign by the local community, funding was approved by the Scottish Government at a cost of £5 million. Private housing developer Manorlane agreed to fund 40% of the costs. However, it closed and the funding promise expired. West Lothian Council agreed to take on the burden and expects to recoup the cost from additional expansion in the area. [4] The station opened on 12 December 2010 on a new site, some 600 metres closer to Edinburgh than the previous Westcraigs station. [2]

Services

The station has a basic half-hourly off-peak service Mondays to Sundays, westbound to Airdrie, Queen St Low Level and Milngavie and eastbound to Bathgate and Edinburgh Waverley. In the evenings and on Sundays the westbound terminus is Helensburgh Central rather than Milngavie. [5]

Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Armadale   ScotRail
North Clyde Line
  Caldercruix

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. 1 2 "New £300m Airdrie-Bathgate rail link re-opens". BBC News . 12 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
  3. 1 2 Butt (1995), p. 245
  4. ↑ "Blackridge station go-ahead". Modern Railways . 65 (723). Ian Allan Publishings. December 2008.
  5. ↑ Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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