Stepps railway station

Stepps
Location
Place	Stepps
Local authority	North Lanarkshire
Coordinates	55°53′24″N 4°08′26″W / 55.8901°N 4.1406°WCoordinates: 55°53′24″N 4°08′26″W / 55.8901°N 4.1406°W
Grid reference	NS662684
Operations
Station code	SPS
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2002/03	0.127 million
2004/05	0.202 million
2005/06	0.228 million
2006/07	0.263 million
2007/08	0.277 million
2008/09	0.309 million
2009/10	0.301 million
2010/11	0.291 million
2011/12	0.302 million
2012/13	0.306 million
2013/14	0.277 million
Passenger Transport Executive
PTE	SPT
History
May 1989	Opened
National Rail – UK railway stations
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Stepps from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Stepps railway station serves the village of Stepps, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The railway station is located on the Cumbernauld Line, 5¼ miles (8 km) north east of Glasgow Queen Street (High Level) and is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

History

The station is sited on the former Garnkirk and Glasgow Railway, which originally opened back to 1831 and later formed part of the Caledonian Railway main line from Glasgow Buchanan Street. A station at Stepps (originally known as Stepps Road) was opened on this line sometime around 1843/4 (when the line was extended to Coatbridge), which was then closed by the British Railways on 5 November 1962.^[1]

The present station (a short distance to the east) was opened by British Rail with financial support from Strathclyde Passenger Transport Executive on 15 May 1989.^[2]

Services

Monday to Saturday, there is a half-hourly EMU service to Glasgow Queen Street Low Level and Dalmuir westbound and Cumbernauld eastbound along with an hourly diesel service between Queen Street High Level and Falkirk Grahamston.^[3] Electric services reverse at Springburn to access the North Clyde Line following the inauguration of electrification between Springburn & Cumbernauld on 18 May 2014,^[4] but the service to/from Falkirk remains diesel operated at present.

On Sundays there is an hourly service to Partick via Glasgow Queen St LL and to Cumbernauld.

Facilities

The station has a car park as well as cycle storage, but is not staffed.^[5] There is a ticket machine on the westbound platform, but not on the eastbound platform.

References

1. Daniels, Gerald David; Dench, Leslie Alan (February 1963) [1962]. Passengers No More 1952–1962. Closures of stations and branch lines (PDF) (2nd ed.). Brighton: GLO. p. 24. OCLC 504319235.
2. Scot-Rail Station Openings since 1960 www.scot-rail.co.uk
3. GB National Rail Timetable May - December 2014, Table 224 (Network Rail)
4. "Rail service to improve" Cumbernauld News article; Retrieved 2014-05-19
5. http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations_destinations/SPS.aspx

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