Cleland railway station
Cleland  | |
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| Location | |
| Place | Cleland |
| Local authority | North Lanarkshire |
| Coordinates | 55°48′16″N 3°54′39″W / 55.8044°N 3.9107°WCoordinates: 55°48′16″N 3°54′39″W / 55.8044°N 3.9107°W |
| Grid reference | NS803584 |
| Operations | |
| Station code | CEA |
| Managed by | Abellio ScotRail |
| Number of platforms | 2 |
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Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries | |
| Annual rail passenger usage* | |
| 2010/11 |
 74,752 |
| 2011/12 |
86,810 |
| 2012/13 |
96,458 |
| 2013/14 |
 92,734 |
| 2014/15 |
90,484 |
| Passenger Transport Executive | |
| PTE | SPT |
| History | |
| Original company | Caledonian Railway |
| Post-grouping | LMS |
| 9 July 1869[1] | Opened as Bellside |
| 1 October 1879[1] | Renamed Omoa |
| 1 October 1941[2] | Renamed Cleland |
| National Rail – UK railway stations | |
| * Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Cleland from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
 UK Railways portal | |
Cleland railway station is a railway station serving the village of Cleland, near Motherwell in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Built on the Cleland and Midcalder Line it was originally named 'Omoa', after the nearby ironworks, until Cleland (Old) on the Wishaw and Coltness Railway closed in 1930.
It is located on the Shotts Line, 15¾ miles (25 km) east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley via Shotts. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge, and CCTV. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.
Services
It is currently served (Monday to Saturday) by one Abellio ScotRail service each hour between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley, plus one return service each day to/from Motherwell. On Sundays, there was normally no service prior to the December 2012 timetable change. However, in the four weeks leading up to Christmas an hourly service to Glasgow Central from Shotts via Whifflet is laid on for shoppers.[3]
Cleland was not included in the timetable for the express passenger service along this line between Glasgow and Edinburgh.[4]
However, from 9 December 2012 a new two-hourly Sunday service began operating between Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley in both directions.[5]
| Preceding station | National Rail |
Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hartwood | Abellio ScotRail Shotts Line |
Carfin | ||
| Historical railways | ||||
| Hartwood | Caledonian Railway Cleland and Midcalder Line |
Carfin | ||
Traction
The staple passenger traction on this line is the Class 156 and Class 158, though Class 170 have been used in times of vehicle breakdown and shortages as well as for driver training.
Engineering works on other routes between Glasgow and Edinburgh may result in other diesel hauled passenger traction being seen, but these almost never call at this station.
Regular containerload and wagonload freight traffic also traverses the line regularly.
References
Notes
- 1 2 Butt 1995, p. 32.
- ↑ Butt 1995, p. 178.
- ↑ http://www.scotrail.co.uk/christmas/pdf/sunday_services.pdf
- ↑ http://www.scotrail.co.uk/sites/files/Ed%20Sub.web.pdf
- ↑ GB National Rail Timetable 2013, Table 225
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.
- 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 1-8526-0086-1. OCLC 22311137.