Linlithgow railway station

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Linlithgow

Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha [1]
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Linlithgow station 2012.jpg
General information
Location Linlithgow, West Lothian
Scotland
Coordinates 55°58′35″N3°35′45″W / 55.9764°N 3.5957°W / 55.9764; -3.5957
Grid reference NT005770
Managed by ScotRail
Platforms2
Other information
Station codeLIN
History
Original company Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Pre-grouping North British Railway
Post-grouping London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
21 February 1842Opened [2]
Passengers
2020/21Decrease2.svg 0.120 million

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, 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 stations (with Croy) 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 the Edinburgh - Stirling - Dunblane route, with half-hourly calls each way on all routes daily (trains run hourly beyond Stirling to Dunblane on Sundays). A limited number of Sunday services start or terminate at Perth, running via Stirling and Gleneagles. [6]

Preceding station National Rail logo.svg National Rail Following station
Haymarket   ScotRail
to Glasgow-Edinburgh via Falkirk line 		  Polmont
Edinburgh Park   ScotRail
Edinburgh to Dunblane Line
  Polmont
 Historical railways 
Philpstoun
Line open, station closed		  North British Railway
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway 		  Manuel High Level
Line open, station closed
A Class 170 working an Edinburgh to Glasgow service. Taken prior to electrification works Linlithgow 170411.jpg
A Class 170 working an Edinburgh to Glasgow service. Taken prior to electrification works

Electrification

As part of the Edinburgh to Glasgow Improvement Programme, the line through the station has been electrified and the platforms extended. [7]

Linlithgow station in 2018, following electrification of the line Linlithgow railway station, West Lothian (geograph 5433002).jpg
Linlithgow station in 2018, following electrification of the line

References

  1. ↑ Brailsford 2017, Gaelic/English Station Index.
  2. 1 2 Butt (1995), p. 143
  3. 1 2 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. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 October 2014. Retrieved 23 October 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ Table 226, 228 & 230 National Rail timetable, December 2018
  7. ↑ "EGIP - Edinburgh Glasgow Improvement Programme". www.egip.info. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

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