Caldercruix railway station

Caldercruix
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General information
Location	North Lanarkshire
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	CAC
History
Original company	Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
Key dates
11 August 1862	Opened
9 January 1956	Closed
13 February 2011	Reopened

Caldercruix railway station is a railway station serving Caldercruix, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.

History

The station was originally opened as part of the Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway on 11 August 1862 and closed on 9 January 1956.^[1]

Reopening

The station was due to be re-opened as part of the Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link on 12 December 2010.^[3] However building work was held up by bad weather, and a bus service ferried passengers until the station was able to open.^[4] The reopening eventually took place on 13 February 2011.^[2]

The Airdrie-Bathgate Rail Link is a project created to enable Glasgow and Edinburgh to be linked via a fourth route by reopening the railway between the towns of Airdrie and Bathgate.

Services

The station has a basic half-hourly off-peak service Mondays to Sundays, westbound to Airdrie, Queen St L.L & 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		Following station
Blackridge		Abellio ScotRail North Clyde Line	Drumgelloch
	Historical railways
Forrestfield Line open; Station closed		Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway North British Railway	Plains Line open; Station closed

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c Butt (1995), p. 51
^ ^a ^b "New station arrives for Caldercruix". 11 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ "New £300m Airdrie-Bathgate rail link re-opens". BBC News Online. 12 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.
^ "Station update: Armadale, Caldercruix & Drumgelloch". 13 January 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.
^ Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016

Sources

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.
RAILSCOT on Bathgate and Coatbridge Railway
Disused stations

[Butt-1] Butt (1995), p. 51

[reopening13feb-2] "New station arrives for Caldercruix". 11 February 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[3] "New £300m Airdrie-Bathgate rail link re-opens". BBC News Online. 12 December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.

[4] "Station update: Armadale, Caldercruix & Drumgelloch". 13 January 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2011.

[5] Table 226 National Rail timetable, May 2016

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