Lanark railway station

Lanark
Platform 2 at Lanark railway station, looking towards the ticket office
Location
Place	Lanark
Local authority	South Lanarkshire
Coordinates	55.673°N 3.773°W / 55.673; -3.773
Grid reference	NS886436
Operations
Station code	LNK
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2002/03 *	218,994
2004/05 *	257,628
2005/06 *	278,915
2006/07 *	289,541
2007/08 *	301,167
2008/09 *	342,050
2009/10 *	328,594
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	Strathclyde Partnership for Transport
Zone	L3
History
Original company	Lanark Railway
Pre-grouping	Caledonian Railway
Post-grouping	London, Midland and Scottish Railway
1 April 1864	Station opened
National Rail - UK railway stations
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Lanark from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Lanark railway station is in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is managed by First ScotRail and is the southern terminus of the Argyle Line.

The station is located on Bannatyne Street, Lanark. The station is staffed part-time (open Monday-Saturday 06:20 until 20:25) and has a car park with 31 spaces, including two disabled bays.

History

Lanark station opened in 1855, as the terminus of a short branch line off the Caledonian Railway's West Coast Main Line. The branch had a triangular junction with the main line to allow trains from Lanark to head west towards Carluke or east to Carstairs. The eastern curve closed in the 1960s.

In 1864, a line south from Lanark to Douglas was opened, and in 1874 it was extended to Muirkirk in Ayrshire, where it formed an end-on junction with the Glasgow and South Western Railway. That line closed in 1964.

In 1979, the Lanark branch was included in the Argyle Line electrification project.

Current services

Mondays to Saturdays, two First ScotRail trains an hour:

• to Dalmuir via Shieldmuir, Motherwell, Bellshill, Glasgow Central Low Level and Yoker;
• to Milngavie via Holytown, Motherwell, Blantyre and Glasgow Central Low Level.

Sundays, one First ScotRail service an hour to Milngavie via Shieldmuir, Motherwell, Bellshill and Glasgow Central.

There are no southbound or eastbound services, as the branch has only has a northbound chord connecting it to the West Coast Main Line (WCML) at Lanark Junction. There have been calls for the southbound chord to be reconnected, to allow direct services from Lanark to Edinburgh.^{[citation needed]}

External links

• Train times and station information for Lanark railway station from National Rail

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Terminus		First ScotRail Argyle Line		Carluke
	Historical railways
Carstairs		Caledonian Railway Main Line		Cleghorn
Terminus		Caledonian Railway Branch to Douglas & G&SWR		Sandilands