Linlithgow railway station

Linlithgow
Scottish Gaelic: Gleann Iucha
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Location
Place	Linlithgow
Local authority	West Lothian
Coordinates
Grid reference	NT005770
Operations
Station code	LIN
Managed by	Abellio ScotRail
Number of platforms	2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2004/05	1.092 million
2005/06	1.088 million
2006/07	1.121 million
2007/08	1.162 million
2008/09	1.187 million
2009/10	1.173 million
2010/11	1.155 million
2011/12	1.122 million
2012/13	1.139 million
2013/14	1.155 million
History
Original company	Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	LNER
21 February 1842	Opened
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* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Linlithgow from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.
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Linlithgow railway station is a railway station serving the town of Linlithgow in West Lothian, Scotland. It is located on the Glasgow to Edinburgh via Falkirk Line and is also served by Abellio ScotRail services from Edinburgh Waverley to Dunblane, and the daily train between Glasgow Queen Street and the Fife Circle Line.

History

Linlithgow station was opened by the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway on 21 February 1842. It once featured an east-facing bay platform and a small goods yard, where the carpark is today. The station also had a railway hotel; The Star and Garter Hotel which was involved in a devastating fire in October 2010.

Photographs of the station taken in 1845 are believed to be the oldest photographic images of a railway subject anywhere in the world.

Services

The station is served by trains on both the main Edinburgh to Glasgow main line and the Edinburgh - Stirling - Dunblane routes, with half-hourly calls each way on both routes on Mondays to Saturdays (hourly to Dunblane in the evening). The one return weekday Kirkcaldy to Glasgow commuter service also stops here in each direction.

On Sundays, the Edinburgh - Glasgow service is half hourly and the Dunblane to Edinburgh one is hourly.

Preceding station	National Rail			Following station
Polmont		Abellio ScotRail Glasgow - Edinburgh Line		Haymarket
		Abellio ScotRail to Fife Circle Line		Dalmeny
Polmont		Abellio ScotRail Edinburgh to Dunblane Line		Edinburgh Park
	Historical railways
Philpstoun Line open; station closed		North British Railway Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway		Manuel High Level Line open; station closed

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A Class 170 working an Edinburgh to Glasgow service

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View from platform 2, with a train in the sidings, waiting to run from Linlithgow to Glasgow Queen Street

References

Sources

• RAILSCOT on Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
• Linlithgow station on navigable OS map