Falkirk Grahamston railway station

Falkirk Grahamston Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Ghreumaich [1]
Falkirk Grahamston station in 2018, following electrification
General information
Location	Falkirk, Falkirk Scotland
Coordinates	56°00′09″N3°47′08″W / 56.0024°N 3.7856°W / 56.0024; -3.7856
Grid reference	NS887802
Managed by	ScotRail
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	FKG
History
Original company	Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
1 October 1850	Opened as Grahamston (Falkirk) [2]
1 February 1903	Renamed as Falkirk Grahamston [2] [3]
Passengers
2020/21	92,364
Interchange	21,817
Camelon		Stirlingshire Midland Junction Railway North British Railway		Polmont
Terminus		Grangemouth Railway Caledonian Railway		Grangemouth

Recent Improvements

The line through the station and onwards to Larbert/Cumbernauld and to Polmont was electrified in 2018 as part of the second phase of the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme funded by Transport Scotland. This has resulted in a timetable recast, with a new Glasgow to Edinburgh via Cumbernauld & Falkirk Grahamston stopping service introduced and services to Edinburgh, Stirling & Dunblane accelerated. ^[8]

References

Notes

1. Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
2. Butt 1995, p. 107.
3. Butt 1995, p. 94.
4. Awdry 1990, p. 164.
5. "Grangemouth Railway". Railscot. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
6. Crawford, Ewen. "Falkirk Grahamston". Railscot. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
7. UK NRT Autumn 1999 Edition, Table 230
8. Dalton, A. (15 March 2016). "ScotRail announces major increase in daily trains". Edinburgh Evening News. Retrieved 18 August 2016.

Sources

• Awdry, Christopher (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies . Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN   1-8526-0049-7. OCLC   19514063. CN 8983.
• 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. (October 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. OL   11956311M.
• 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.