Slateford railway station

Slateford
Location
Place	Slateford
Local authority	Edinburgh
Coordinates	55.926497°N 3.244086°W / 55.926497; -3.244086
Operations
Station code	SLA
Managed by	First ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures and station information from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage
2004/05 *	18,158
2005/06 *	17,805
2006/07 *	19,861
2007/08 *	20,897
2008/09 *	20,912
History
Opened January 1853 (January 1853)
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Slateford from Office of Rail Regulation statistics. Please note: methodology may vary year on year.

Slateford railway station is a railway station serving Slateford in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located on the Shotts Line from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by First ScotRail.

Slateford Station

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one First ScotRail service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell. There is a limited Sunday service at this station to Edinburgh and West Calder.

The staple passenger traction calling at this station is the Class 156 "Super Sprinter". However a Class 158 can also be seen on the Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley services with sometimes a Class 170 on the local Sunday service to West Calder. As this station lies on the spur of the West Coast Main Line from Carstairs to Edinburgh a colourful variety of CrossCountry Class 220 "Voyager", Virgin Trains Class 221 "Super Voyager" and East Coast Inter City 225 can also be seen.

The line is heavily used by freight, including imported coal from Ayrshire to Drax and Cockenzie, a daily intermodal service, departmental traffic and a daily train of loaded steel to the Dalzell works at Motherwell.

External links

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

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Haymarket		First ScotRail Shotts Line		Kingsknowe

Sources

• Butt, R. V. J. (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 1-8526-0508-1. OCLC 60251199.